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Perfected Payroll Outsourcing Service in Ahmedabad

  • prafullpatel88
  • Feb 24
  • 2 min read

For what length of time should I maintain the Payroll Statutory Records for the Organization using their forms?


Usually, the main duties of an HR department of a company are retention and disposal of records connected to employment. The Companies Act of 2013 states the corporation has to retain all records. Connect 2 Payroll Outsourcing Company Services in Ahmedabad India. The business effectively and methodically maintains data records in line with GDPR criteria, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001: 2013, and regulatory codes of practice on records management. All employee and corporate data is maintained, preserved, and deleted according to laws and standards.


Connect 2 Payroll Outsourcing Company Services in Ahmedabad India. We have compiled in this post the payroll statutory record retention period and the length of time a company should retain a piece of data.


Kinds of statutory payroll records should be kept here:


Payroll logs, pension and retirement records, tax-related records


Legal Files and Records


Record keeping in finance and accounting; insurance records; personnel and HR records


1: Payroll documentation:


Payroll deductions: three years following employment end of service.


Payroll registers (gross and net) three years following job termination.


Authorised employee deduction: three years following job termination.


Details on gratuity and retirement payouts three years following employment departure.


Leave records two years following the pertinent date.


Wage records span three years.


2: Pension and Retirement Notes:


Retirement Records → Lifetime Maintenance.


3: Tax-related documentation


Payroll Tax Records: Eight Years


Excise Tax records → Lifetime upkeep.


Tax returns → lifetime maintenance; tax bills, receipts, and statements → eight years.


Tax-Exemption Documents and Correspondence Related to Lifetime Maintenance


Original tax work paper packages: 8 years


Records of Sales Tax: Eight years


Service Tax Notes: Eight Years


4: Legal Files and Records:


Other statutory permissions, industrial entrepreneurship Memorandum, license and permit; lifetime maintenance.


Legal Memoranda and Opinutions: Three years following the matter's completion.


5: Finance and Accounting Records


Investment Records: Permanent Employee Expense Reports → 8 years General Ledger → Permanent Interim Financial Statements → 8 years Accountable Ledger → 8 Years Receivable Ledger and Schedule → 8 years Investment Record Regular Annual Audit Notes: Permanent Eight years after the audit ends


Plans and budgets annually; three years following the closing year of the budget


Bank Statement and Cancelled Cheques → 8 years; Security Deposit Receiving copies → 3 years after contract termination


6:- Insurance Notes:


Group Insurance Plans: Active Workers → 8 Years Policies for the Company → Releases and Settlements Over Time → Lifetime


7: Human Resources and Personnel Records


Personnel Files including lifetime earnings records for individual employees → three years following employment termination


Bonuses incentives, and awards → 8 years Employee Induction Records → Lifetime Employee Medical Records: 3 years after employment termination


Retention of records is done mostly for the following reasons:


follow legal rules and guidelines.


Keep statutory or regulatory records to help you prevent fines and penalties.


To keep records free from Government legal actions and private.


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