Indirect Tax Services
A single point of contact for Goods and Services Tax, customs, professional tax and legacy indirect tax matters, across compliance, advisory and litigation.
Indirect taxes are the taxes charged on transactions rather than on income: principally the Goods and Services Tax, customs duty on imports and exports, state professional tax, and the legacy service tax, value added tax and central excise matters that are still moving through assessment and appeal. Handling them together matters, because the position taken in a return, an opinion and an appeal has to be the same position.
What our indirect tax practice covers
Compliance, advisory and dispute work handled by one team with one view of your business.
- Goods and Services Tax registration, return filing, refunds and annual reconciliation
- Customs classification, valuation, exemptions and Foreign Trade Policy benefits
- Professional tax registration, returns and assessments across states
- Legacy service tax, value added tax and central excise assessments and appeals
- Representation before departmental authorities at audit, adjudication and appeal
- Periodic compliance review and health checks across all applicable indirect taxes
What the practice brings together
Four streams of work that are usually split across firms.
GST Compliance
Registrations, periodic returns, annual return and reconciliation statement, refunds and the day-to-day portal work behind them.
Customs and Foreign Trade
Import and export documentation, classification and valuation questions, and benefits available under the Foreign Trade Policy.
Litigation and Representation
Notices, adjudication, appeals and legacy disputes, including matters carried over from the pre-Goods and Services Tax regime.
Compliance Review
Periodic review of returns, credits and documentation, so that gaps are found by us rather than by an auditing officer.
Our process
From initial consultation to completion.
Scoping
Mapping the taxes, registrations and open disputes that actually apply to your business today.
Compliance Calendar
Building a single calendar covering every return, payment and renewal across taxes and states.
Execution
Running the recurring work and handling notices and queries as they arise.
Review and Reporting
Periodic review of positions and exposures, reported in a form your management can act on.
Why indirect taxes are better handled together
What sets our approach apart.
The taxes interact
A customs valuation position affects the credit claimed under the Goods and Services Tax, and a contract structured for one tax can create exposure under another.
Legacy matters are still alive
Service tax, value added tax and excise disputes continue through appellate stages years after the taxes themselves were subsumed.
One team gives one consistent position
Splitting compliance, advisory and litigation across firms is how a business ends up arguing against its own return.
Indirect tax questions answered
What people ask before engaging us.
Indirect tax work spread across three different advisers?
We will bring compliance, advisory and litigation under one team with one view of your business.
