Why generic HR tools struggle with Indian payroll compliance
Global HR tools handle the people-management story well — onboarding flows, leave policies, performance cycles — but they consistently break down at the part Indian SMEs care about most: running statutory-compliant payroll without a chartered accountant on speed dial. EPF, ESI, Professional Tax, TDS, gratuity, leave encashment, LWF, and the new four labour codes each have their own calculation rules, deduction caps, and filing formats. A tool that doesn't carry the Indian compliance calendar natively forces your HR team to maintain a parallel Excel workbook — which defeats the purpose of having software at all.
Proofox HRM ships with the full Indian compliance layer pre-built: EPF and ESI auto-calculated against the latest wage ceiling, PT slabs per state, TDS computation under both old and new regimes, Form 16 generation at year-end, and statutory reports in the exact formats EPFO/ESIC accept. When the slabs change (and they do — most recently the new Income Tax Act 2025 rewrite), the tool updates automatically. You stop chasing the law and start running your people operations.








