Compliance Deadline Calendar

Which recurring obligations there are

Depending on legal form and size, companies in Germany must meet recurring obligations: the advance VAT return and payroll tax return by the 10th of the following month, annual tax returns, publication of the annual financial statements, annual data protection and safety briefings, and regular review runs such as the GDPR deletion concept. This free calendar works out from eight details about your company which of these obligations affect you, and exports them as an ICS file into your calendar.

In taxes & accounting these are the advance VAT return (Section 18 UStG), the payroll tax return (Section 41a EStG), the annual tax returns (Section 149 AO), the trade tax return (Sections 19, 25 GewStG) and the review of the small business thresholds (Section 19 UStG). In data protection, the deletion concept (Art. 17 GDPR) and the annual data protection training (Art. 32, 39 GDPR) recur regularly. In occupational safety it is the annual safety briefing (Section 12 ArbSchG). In company law, publication of the annual financial statements (Sections 325, 326 HGB) and the IHK or HwK membership fee (Section 2 IHKG) are added. And in HR, larger companies are affected by the compensatory levy for severely disabled persons (Sections 154, 160 SGB IX).

What missed deadlines can lead to

Missed deadlines rarely go without consequences. Late tax returns attract late filing surcharges under Section 152 AO. Anyone who fails to publish the annual financial statements risks administrative fine proceedings under Section 335 HGB, with fines starting at 2,500 euros. For data protection violations, Art. 83 GDPR provides for fines. And because many of these obligations lie with the management, you may well carry the liability risk personally.

Calendar subscription vs. active deadline management

The ICS file from this tool is a static one-off export: it reminds you reliably, but it does not ensure that an obligation is actually fulfilled; there is nobody who is liable or follows up. Active deadline management means more: every obligation has a responsible person, a status and proof that it has been fulfilled. That is exactly what the Company Audit cockpit provides. The calendar is your first step, the cockpit the continuation for everyone who wants not only to keep an eye on deadlines but to work through them reliably.