Indirect Tax Advisory

Indirect tax advisory is the strategic review and the ongoing management of a business's indirect tax — the GST under the CGST Act 2017, the customs under the Customs Act 1962, and the export and the trade incentives under the Foreign Trade Policy. The advisory covers the classification and the rate positions, the input tax credit and the refunds, the compliance and the assessments, and the notices — with the same statute-backed rigour across each. It is the service a business engages when its indirect tax has grown beyond the monthly filings.

The indirect tax structure is where a business's margins are quietly decided. The classification of a product, the credit claimed on an input, the incentive claimed on an export — each moves the effective tax rate, and each is a position the department will test. The advisory keeps the positions documented and current, so the business knows its effective rate and can defend it.

The cost of the unmanaged structure is the surprise: the notice that arrives with a demand the business never saw coming, the refund that was never claimed, the incentive that was never structured. Each surprise is a position that would have been cheaper to manage than to defend.

This service is for businesses with a meaningful indirect tax footprint. We review the GST, the customs and the incentive positions under the Acts, identify the savings and the exposures, document the positions for the audit, manage the compliance and the refunds, and respond to the notices — so the indirect tax is a managed position rather than a series of surprises.