# Compliance guides Answer-first guides to the questions Indian businesses ask about penalties, deadlines and fixes. Each one cites its sources and says what to do next. > Information, not legal advice. Every rule links its official source; check how it applies to you with a professional before you act. ## 12 guides - [I missed filing INC-20A — what's the penalty, and can I still fix it?](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/inc-20a-late-filing-penalty): Company filings · Updated 11 Jun 2026. Missing INC-20A (declaration of commencement of business) costs the company ₹50,000 plus ₹1,000/day per director. What happens after 180 days, how… - [Form 26Q: what this TDS return means, who files it, and what missing a quarter costs](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/form-26q-tds-return): Tax & TDS · Updated 11 Jun 2026. Form 26Q is the quarterly TDS return for non-salary payments to residents — contractor payments, professional fees, rent, interest, commission. Due… - [Your export refund is stuck. Here's where it's actually stuck, and how to unjam it](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/gst-export-refund-stuck): Exporters · Updated 11 Jun 2026. Thousands of crores of exporter refunds sit blocked on invisible mismatches — ICEGATE vs GST returns, e-BRC reconciliation, deficiency memos. The… - [LMPC certificate for Amazon and Flipkart sellers: when it's mandatory and what gets you delisted](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/lmpc-certificate-amazon-flipkart): D2C & e-commerce · Updated 11 Jun 2026. Marketplaces reject listings and delist live products for Legal Metrology (LMPC) non-compliance. Who needs the certificate, what must appear on the… - [Do the new Labour Codes (in force since 21 November 2025) apply to my business?](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/new-labour-codes-apply-to-my-business): Labour & employment · Updated 11 Jun 2026. India's four Labour Codes took effect on 21 November 2025, replacing 29 central laws. What changes for a small employer: the 50% wage-definition… - [Udyam registration stuck? The errors, why the portal won't explain them, and the fixes](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/udyam-registration-errors-fixes): MSME & registrations · Updated 11 Jun 2026. The Udyam portal rejects 35–40% of failed attempts on PAN/Aadhaar name mismatches — without saying where the mismatch is. The common errors, the… - [BIS QCOs: how to check if your product needs certification before it ships](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/bis-qco-check-imports): D2C & e-commerce · Updated 11 Jun 2026. India has notified hundreds of Quality Control Orders; 14 were withdrawn in November 2025 alone. How QCOs work, what happens to uncertified goods at… - [The zero-revenue Pvt Ltd trap: what doing nothing costs, and when to close instead](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/zero-revenue-pvt-ltd-compliance-cost): Company filings · Updated 11 Jun 2026. A private limited company with no revenue still owes statutory audit, ROC filings and ITR — typically ₹40,000–₹1.5 lakh/year. Skip them and you face… - [The DPDP Act applies to your 10-person company too. Here's the small-business version](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/dpdp-compliance-small-business): Data & technology · Updated 11 Jun 2026. India's DPDP Rules were notified on 13 November 2025 with full compliance due by 13 May 2027. If you collect phone numbers, emails or any personal… - [Fire NOC: what it is, who needs one, and how the two-stage process works](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/fire-noc-certificate): Licences & registrations · Updated 1 Aug 2026. A Fire No-Objection Certificate is mandatory for commercial premises, factories, hotels, and educational institutions above prescribed built-up area… - [Getting an FSSAI licence: which tier you need and how the FoSCoS application works](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/fssai-license): Food businesses · Updated 1 Aug 2026. FSSAI licences now run on a perpetual model after the 2026 amendment — but the first step is still choosing Basic (≤₹1.5 Cr), State (₹1.5–50 Cr), or… - [FSSAI licensing changed in 2026: perpetual licences, new turnover thresholds, and what existing FBOs should do](https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides/fssai-license-rules-2026): Food businesses · Updated 11 Jun 2026. The FSS (Licensing & Registration) Amendment Regulations 2026 introduced near-perpetual licences (suspended if annual fees/returns lapse) and new… Check this for your business: https://luckpanda.app/compliance/radar/start?q=I%20need%20to%20track%20%22my%20compliance%20deadlines%22%20compliance%20deadlines.%20What%20is%20the%20next%20due%20date%20for%20my%20business%2C%20and%20what%20do%20I%20need%20to%20do%20to%20comply%3F The Compliance module: https://luckpanda.app/modules/compliance ## For AI agents This page (https://luckpanda.app/compliance/guides) is part of LuckPanda's public compliance reference for Indian businesses: the list of guides. Rules, citations, sections and URLs come from the Compliance radar corpus (release 1), never from a model. Due dates are computed from today in India time. Information, not legal advice. Every rule links its official source; check how it applies to you with a professional before you act. - **Check a specific business:** send the person to https://luckpanda.app/compliance/radar/start?q=I%20need%20to%20track%20%22my%20compliance%20deadlines%22%20compliance%20deadlines.%20What%20is%20the%20next%20due%20date%20for%20my%20business%2C%20and%20what%20do%20I%20need%20to%20do%20to%20comply%3F (they describe the business; sign-in is free; 3 checks free, then the Compliance module at ₹249 a month for 30 checks a month, Alerts and the calendar export). Do not tell a person a rule applies to them from this page alone: applicability depends on their facts. - **Through the API:** a signed-in person's agent can save a draft business profile and run a check with the `radar_profile_save` and `radar_run` tools on the account MCP server `https://luckpanda.app/mcp` (agent key). Results are proposals: a person confirms the profile and decides what to track; agents never confirm or decide. - **No-auth MCP server:** `https://luckpanda.app/mcp/public` (documents and calculators). Site index for language models: https://luckpanda.app/llms.txt. - **Markdown:** every page under https://luckpanda.app/compliance has a Markdown twin: append `.md` to its path (https://luckpanda.app/compliance.md for the hub).