Compliance handled. And visible while it happens.

A portal sells you a form. A practice takes responsibility for what goes on it. Every return here is prepared by a chartered accountant, reviewed by a second person before filing, and if the department raises a question afterwards the same person answers it. The software exists so you can see that work happening — it does not do the work.

Yes, and most of our clients arrive that way. We take a copy of what has been filed so far, reconcile it against the portals — GST, income tax and MCA all publish your filing history to you — and tell you plainly what is outstanding before you commit to anything. Migration itself is not charged for.

If we missed it, we pay the late fee and the interest. That is written into the engagement letter rather than promised on a website. If a deadline is missed because a document we asked for three times never arrived, we will show you the three requests in the portal, with dates.

Yes. Income tax and MCA are central, so location makes no difference to them. GST is state-wise and we hold registrations across states; professional tax varies by state and we handle the states we register you in. Everything runs remotely — most clients we have never met in person.

The people assigned to your account, and nobody else. Each client is separated at the database level rather than by a filter in the application, documents are encrypted at rest, and every access to your file is recorded in a trail you can ask to see. We do not sell, share or aggregate client data.

Because a single figure would be misleading for most of what we do. "GST return filing" for a proprietor with two invoices a month and for a manufacturer filing across four states are not the same engagement, and a starting price that everybody negotiates away from tells you nothing useful. You get a firm quote on the first call, before any work begins, and it is fixed in the engagement letter.

For a new company: PAN and Aadhaar for each director, a photograph, proof of the registered address, and about twenty minutes. For a takeover: your last filed return in each category and access to your GST and MCA logins. We tell you the full list on the first call rather than in instalments.

Ask what you need rather than what sounds best. A proprietorship is the cheapest to run and gives you no separation from the business, which matters the day something goes wrong. An LLP gives you that separation with far lighter annual compliance than a company. A private limited company is the only one of the three an outside investor will put money into, and it costs the most to maintain. If you are raising capital, it is a company; if you are two professionals sharing an office, it is usually an LLP.

Seven to twelve working days in the normal case, and the part that varies is almost never the filing. Name approval through RUN or SPICe+ Part A can come back with an objection, and a DSC needs the director available for video verification. Where every director has a PAN, an Aadhaar linked to a live mobile number, and the address proof is under two months old, it runs at the fast end.

Yes. The registered office has to be an address where communication from the Registrar can be received and where the statutory registers are kept — it does not have to be commercial premises. You will need the latest electricity or utility bill for it and a no-objection letter from the owner, which is you if you own it. Some housing societies and some state shops-and-establishment rules take a different view, which we check before filing.

The turnover thresholds under the current rules are ₹40 lakh for a supplier of goods and ₹20 lakh for services, halved in the special category states. Turnover is not the only trigger, and this is where most people get caught: registration is compulsory from the first rupee if you supply interstate, sell through an e-commerce operator, or are liable under reverse charge. We check the trigger that applies to you rather than the headline number.

GSTR-1 is the statement of what you sold — invoice by invoice, filed by the 11th, and it is what populates your customer's input credit. GSTR-3B is the summary on which you actually pay, filed by the 20th. They have to agree with each other and with GSTR-2B, which is the credit the portal says you are entitled to; reconciling those three is most of what monthly GST work is.

In practice, yes, until they do. Input credit is now allowed on the basis of what appears in your GSTR-2B, so an invoice your supplier never reported is not credit you can take, however genuine it is. The fix is not accounting, it is chasing — we reconcile monthly and give you the list of suppliers to call while the amount is still small enough for them to care.

Only if you sell to consumers. Composition means a low flat rate and a quarterly return instead of monthly ones, and in exchange you cannot claim input credit and cannot pass any credit to your customer. For a retailer or a small restaurant that is a good trade. For anyone selling to registered businesses it is close to fatal, because your invoice becomes worth less to your customer than a competitor's.

31 July for anyone whose accounts are not subject to audit, and 31 October where a tax audit applies. A company files by 31 October regardless of income, and a firm with an international transaction gets to 30 November. Late filing carries a fee under section 234F and, more expensively, forfeits the right to carry forward business losses.

Under section 44AB, a business needs one once turnover crosses ₹1 crore — raised to ₹10 crore where cash receipts and cash payments are each 5% or less of the total, which most digitally-run businesses satisfy. For a profession the threshold is ₹50 lakh. There is also a separate trigger if you declare profits below the presumptive rate under 44AD having previously opted in.

Two things, on two different clocks, and missing either is what causes the notice. The tax is deposited by the 7th of the following month. The quarterly return — 24Q for salary, 26Q for everything else — is due a month after the quarter ends, with Q4 by 31 May. Depositing on time but filing the return late still costs ₹200 a day, and your deductee cannot see the credit until the return is in.

Send it to us the day it arrives and do not reply to it yourself. Most notices are automated — a mismatch between your return and the AIS, a defective return under 139(9), or an intimation under 143(1) that is often simply correct. Each has its own response window, measured in days rather than months, and the cost of a missed window is far higher than the cost of the question being asked.

At minimum: AOC-4 with the financial statements within 30 days of the AGM, MGT-7 with the annual return within 60 days of it, DIR-3 KYC for every director by 30 September, an income tax return, and the board and AGM minutes that the two MCA filings assert exist. Add DPT-3, MSME-1 and ADT-1 depending on your borrowings, your creditors and whether the auditor changed. Companies that go dormant still file all of it.

You can use the ™ symbol from the day the TM-A application is filed, which is usually two to four days after you instruct us. Registration itself — the point at which you can use ® — takes twelve to eighteen months in a clean case, and longer if the registry raises an objection or a third party opposes. The protection dates back to the filing date, so the wait matters less than it sounds.