Compliance & Payroll
All legal complexity handled — contracts, GDPR, IP protection, and payroll for your Indian team.
Legal Complexity, Fully Handled
Hiring across borders is legally complex. GDPR obligations, IP ownership, permanent establishment risk, Indian payroll tax, and national contract law in Germany, Austria and Switzerland — getting any of it wrong is costly and difficult to unwind.
JoinNow is your compliance partner for all India-based engagements, and KV Consulting Private Limited (KVC) is the legal employer of the people on your team. That framework keeps the Indian employment relationship — and its obligations — on our side, so your team can start work immediately.
From the initial contract to the monthly payslip, every element of the engagement is coordinated by JoinNow together with KVC and our legal and payroll partners. You get a single invoice, complete transparency, and a clear paper trail.
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- Contracts under German, Austrian or Swiss law as applicable
- Full GDPR compliance framework
- IP protection and assignment clauses
- Single monthly invoice — no complexity
- Cross-border payroll management
- Ongoing monitoring of regulatory changes
What We Cover
Every dimension of cross-border compliance, coordinated end-to-end by JoinNow with our legal and payroll partners.
Contracts Under Local Law
Engagements are structured under German, Austrian or Swiss law as applicable, prepared with our legal partners. Your contracts protect your IP and reflect local labour regulations.
GDPR Compliance
Data processing agreements, privacy policies, and access controls — all aligned with GDPR requirements for cross-border engagements.
IP Protection
Every contract includes clear IP assignment clauses. All work product created by your team members belongs to you, unambiguously.
Single Monthly Invoice
One invoice per month covers all team members, regardless of how many people or how many countries are involved. No complexity, no surprises.
Cross-Border Payroll
We handle payroll for your Indian team members in full compliance with Indian tax law and employment regulations — so you never have to.
Tax Documentation
We keep our own Indian and UAE filings in order and supply the documentation your side needs. Withholding tax and permanent establishment questions stay with your own tax and legal advisers — we coordinate with them.
How It Works
Engagement setup
We map your operational compliance requirements based on your company structure, industry, and team configuration — and flag anything your own advisers should look at.
Contract preparation
All required contracts — service agreements, NDAs, IP assignments, and DPAs — are prepared with our legal partners and tailored to your situation.
Payroll enrollment
Your team members are enrolled in our compliant payroll and benefits infrastructure in India. No action required from you.
Monthly invoicing
You receive a single consolidated invoice each month. We handle all disbursements to team members and tax authorities.
Ongoing compliance monitoring
Regulation changes? We stay on top of them. Your engagement stays compliant without you lifting a finger.
Ideal For
Companies without in-house legal
Our compliance framework is pre-built and tested for DACH-India engagements, so there is far less for your own counsel to draft from scratch.
Regulated industries
Finance, healthcare, automotive — we understand the stricter compliance requirements of regulated sectors and build them in.
Multi-person Indian teams
The complexity scales with team size. Let us manage payroll, contracts, and compliance for teams of any size.
Common Questions
What is actually included, and what stays our responsibility?
Included: the employment or contractor relationship in India, payroll and statutory filings, contracts prepared under German, Austrian or Swiss law as applicable, IP assignment, and the data processing agreement. Yours: how you direct the work, your own security policy, and any obligations arising from your industry's regulation.
How is personal data handled between the EU and India?
Through a data processing agreement with the access controls and safeguards that cross-border processing requires. If your own policy restricts where data may be processed, or your customers impose residency terms on you, raise it during the brief — it shapes how the engagement is set up rather than being something to reconcile afterwards.
Does engaging people in India create a permanent establishment for us?
It is the right question to ask, and the answer depends on your own structure rather than on a general rule. The offshore model is built so that the Indian entity employs and we invoice you from Dubai, which is a different arrangement from you having people or premises in India. Put it to your tax advisor with the specifics; we will give them whatever detail they need.
Can our legal and procurement teams review the setup before we sign?
Yes, and we would rather they did. The contracts, the data processing agreement and the employment structure are all available for review up front. A procurement review that happens before an engagement starts is considerably cheaper than one that happens after.
Who is liable if something goes wrong?
The allocation is set out in our Terms, including where liability is unlimited — intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health — and where it is capped. Read that section rather than a summary of it, and ask us about anything your legal team wants changed before signing.
Stop Worrying About Compliance
Let us handle the legal and payroll complexity. You focus on building great products with your team.
Get Compliance SortedJoinNow provides operational compliance and payroll services. Nothing on this page is legal or tax advice — please have your own advisers review your specific situation.