About Varma Associates

We have been handling indirect tax for Chennai businesses since 2007 — through Tamil Nadu sales tax, through VAT, and through GST. Three regimes, the same clients, roughly twenty years of it.

Who you are dealing with

Varma Associates is a four-person indirect tax practice in Porur, Chennai, led by Ravivarman R. The practice started in 2007 under the Tamil Nadu general sales tax regime, moved through the VAT years, and handled the transition to GST in 2017 for a client base built up over the previous decade.

That matters more than it sounds. A practice that began after July 2017 has only ever seen GST. We have carried the same businesses across two complete changes of law, which means we have dealt with transitional credit, legacy assessments reopened years later, and the awkward cases that sit across a regime boundary — the ones where knowing only the current Act is not enough.

The team

Four consultants — commerce and management graduates — each with their own areas of depth across GST and wider indirect taxation. You deal with a named person who knows your file, not whoever answers the phone.

Where we are strongest

Two areas account for most of what comes to us, and they are the two where getting it wrong is most expensive.

Departmental notices. Scrutiny notices in ASMT-10, demand notices in DRC-01 and DRC-01A, best-judgment assessments, audits under Section 65 and appeals under Section 107. A notice is not a verdict — most of what arrives as a large demand is a reconciliation problem that can be answered on the record, provided the reply is filed properly and on time.

Refund claims. RFD-01 for exporters, inverted duty structure and excess balance in the cash ledger. Refunds are where most claims stall on documentation rather than on merit, so the file is built to survive scrutiny before it is submitted.

Two decades in the same jurisdictions means we know the offices, the procedures and the officers who handle these matters. In practice that means a submission goes to the right place in the form expected there, queries are answered face to face rather than into an inbox, and a file does not sit still because nobody followed it up. It is professional standing and familiarity with local procedure — nothing more, and we would not offer anything more.

The work we actually do

Across twenty years the range has been wide: wholesale traders and hardware merchants in George Town and Mannady, manufacturers, service providers, exporters claiming refunds, e-commerce sellers, and businesses on the receiving end of scrutiny notices, demand notices, audits and appeals. Very little in GST is genuinely new to us; most of what looks unprecedented is a familiar problem in a new form.

What we handle: new registrations, monthly and quarterly returns, annual returns (GSTR-9/9C), refunds, LUT for exporters, registration amendments, cancellations and revocations, e-invoice and e-way bill setup, ITC reconciliation, departmental notices, audits and appeals.

How we work

• Documents come to us on WhatsApp — no office visit needed for most work.
• You see the prepared draft and approve it before anything is filed.
• The acknowledgement reaches you the moment the filing goes through.
• One named consultant stays with your file rather than a rotating queue.
• Fees are quoted in full before we start. Government fees are shown separately.

What we will not do

We are a private consultancy, not a Government portal and not connected to GSTN or the CBIC. We do not promise outcomes on notices or appeals — anyone who does is guessing, because the decision is not theirs to make. Where a matter needs a lawyer rather than a tax practitioner, we will say so instead of taking it on.

A long-term partner, not a filing service

Most of our clients have been with us across more than one tax regime. That is the relationship we are set up for: someone who already knows your business when a notice arrives, rather than a portal you upload to each month. If you want a dependable partner for your indirect tax matters — registrations and returns month to month, and someone who knows what they are doing when a notice or a refund claim lands — that is what this practice is.

Our office

Porur, Chennai - 600 116, Tamil Nadu — Close to Porur Junction and the Mount-Poonamallee Road IT corridor. Open Mon-Sat: 9.00 AM - 8.00 PM. Sunday: WhatsApp support only.

Reach us: +91 - 9600 606 444 · mytaxchennai@gmail.com