Annual Compliance Cost Calculator

The SECP annual compliance cost calculator estimates what it actually costs to keep a registered company in good standing in Pakistan: the SECP filing fees, FBR professional tax, audit fees and the time cost of your accounts for a full year. Enter your company capital and turnover, and the tool builds a line-by-line annual compliance budget.

Most business owners think a company registration is a one-time cost. In reality, the SECP annual return fees, the audit at year-end, the FBR income tax returns and payroll filings add a predictable recurring bill - and missing a deadline quietly multiplies it with late fees that double with every passing day.

Enter the company capital and the annual turnover, then select the standard compliance package you expect - audit mandatory, utility, payroll. The calculator applies the SECP fee schedule, the FBR deposit rates for the tax year and the audit market averages to produce a full-year number.

• Enter paid-up capital.
• Enter annual turnover.
• Select the compliance bundle (return + audit etc.).
• Read the itemised budget and the grand total.

The items that make up the annual compliance cost are: the SECP annual return fee (which follows the fee schedule paid on each June filing - tenth schedules with the paid-up capital), the income tax return processing fees, the salary and withholding filings, and the statutory audit under the Companies Act 2017. The audit fee is market-determined but scales with turnover - a typical small company pays 100,000 to 400,000 rupee a year.

The temporal nature is the hidden cost: two SECP filings (returns on audited accounts), two FBR return windows, monthly sales tax duty and payroll - all approaching 250,000 to 800,000 rupee per year for a small company, doubling at medium scale.

A Lahore startup with Rs 5,000,000 paid-up capital and Rs 40,000,000 turnover budgets: SECP forms and fees ~Rs 40,000, audit 250,000, professional tax and utilities ~Rs 30,000 and 60 hours of staff time. The calculator totals these into the ~Rs 500,000 annual figure the founders should have priced into the business plan.

• Treating compliance as a one-shot cost at registration - the recurring obligations are much larger.
• Under-budgeting the mandatory audit - any company above the small thresholds is audited.
• Missing the annual shareholder meeting filings - even a zero-activity year requires the SECP returns.
• Ignoring late-filing penalties - SECP fines and FBR default surcharge escalate with every month of delay.