Know every tax and social security deadline this month, and what each one needs
At the start of each month Claude reads the official tax and social security calendars, keeps the deadlines that apply to your company, and lists what each one needs from you. It drafts a note to your accountant on who sends what by when.
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Set it up4 steps
Open the Claude desktop app and sign in with the Claude account you use for work. On a personal Free, Pro or Max plan, chats can be used for training unless you switch off SettingsPrivacyHelp improve Claude.
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Where things are in Claude
- CustomizeConnectors In Claude's left sidebar: connect your email and files.
- /schedule Type it in a new Cowork task to run a prompt on a schedule.
- Scheduled In Claude's left sidebar: what runs, to pause or change it.
- Ask your outside accountant which returns and payments your company makes, how often, and who prepares each one. Save the answer in your Finance folder as "Our filings". Leave amounts out of it.
- Connect Gmail, Google Drive and Web search under CustomizeConnectors. Keep this workflow's files in one Drive folder called Finance.
- Type /schedule, paste this workflow's prompt and pick Manual. It waits under Scheduled; run it on the first working day of each month.
- Check each date against the official page it names before you plan around it, and send the note to your accountant yourself. Claude only drafts; you send.
Set this up on your computer: the Claude desktop app runs it.
The prompt
- Taken out by a company rule: List every tax and social security deadline this month that applies to us, and what each one needs.List every tax and social security deadline this month that applies to us, and what each one needs. Read only the "Our filings" note in my Finance folder and the official pages: do not open any other file in my Finance folder. Never write an amount we owe or paid: if the note or a page shows one, ignore it and never repeat it.safe version
- 1. Find this month's official tax calendar on the tax authority's website, and the social security authority's deadlines, on the web. Name each page you used and the date it shows. Also look for any official notice this month that moves a deadline.
- Taken out by a company rule: 2. Keep only what applies to us, from the "Our filings" note in my Finance folder: the returns and payments we make, how often, and who prepares each one.2. Keep only what applies to us, from the "Our filings" note: the returns and payments we make, how often, and who prepares each one.safe version
- Taken out by a company rule: 3. For each one, in date order: the deadline exactly as the official page states it, the return or payment, what it needs from us (documents, lists, figures), who prepares it, and whether money is paid with it. If our accountant's figures for the month are in my Finance folder, add the amount to pay.3. For each one, in date order: the deadline exactly as the official page states it, the return or payment, what it needs from us (documents, lists, figures), who prepares it, and whether money is paid with it.safe version
- 4. Mark everything due in the next 5 working days, and anything where the official page and our note disagree.
- Taken out by a company rule: 5. Draft a short email to our outside accountant: the list, what we will send and by when, and our questions. Save it as a draft in my email. If you cannot save drafts, put it in your answer for me to copy. Do not send anything.5. Draft a short email to our outside accountant: the list, what we will send and by when, and our questions. No amounts. Save it as a draft in my email. If you cannot save drafts, put it in your answer for me to copy. Do not send anything.safe version
- Write the list as a sheet in my Finance folder named with the month. Never give a date from memory: if you cannot find it on an official page, write [CHECK: what is missing] and where to look.
- Company rule: never put company financials into this task. If an email or file contains them, skip that part and tell me.company rule
Kept out of AI
- Company financialsKept out
- Safe version. Works from dates and documents only. Claude reads only your filings note and the official pages, and no amount owed or paid goes into the list or the email.
What you get
A dated list of this month's filings and payments, each with its official source and what it needs, the next 5 working days marked, and a note to your accountant in your drafts.
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