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The 11th and the 20th arrive every month whether you are ready or not. Our Chennai team keeps businesses in Chennai permanently ahead of both, delivering DRC-01/DRC-01A Demand Reply from Rs.4,999 with reconciliation, senior review and WhatsApp acknowledgements as standard.
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A show cause notice in Form DRC-01 is the department's formal demand proceeding under Section 73 for non-fraud cases or Section 74 where fraud or suppression is alleged, often preceded by an intimation in DRC-01A giving you a chance to pay or explain first. How you respond at this stage usually decides whether the matter ends quietly or grows into a confirmed demand with penalty. We treat each demand on its legal merits, verifying whether the notice is within limitation, whether the computation is correct, and whether the allegation survives reconciliation with GSTR-2B, books and returns. The statutory reply is filed in Form DRC-06 with complete annexures, and we appear at the personal hearing. Where part of the demand is genuinely payable, we advise early payment through DRC-03, which under Section 73 can close the case with no penalty if paid within thirty days of the notice.
Not a bulk-filing portal. A senior consultant knows your file, your jurisdiction and your deadlines.
The annual return and, where turnover crosses Rs.5 crore, the self-certified reconciliation statement in GSTR-9C are prepared by the same team that filed your monthly returns. Nothing about your year has to be rediscovered or explained to a stranger in December.
Tally, Zoho Books, Busy, marketplace reports, plain Excel or even a handwritten bill book — we take your data in whatever form your Chennai business already maintains it. You are never forced to buy new software or retrain staff just to become our client.
Whenever the GST Council notifies a late-fee waiver or an amnesty window for pending returns or old demands, we check every client's history against it and act within the deadline. Relief that businesses in Chennai would otherwise read about after it lapsed reaches our clients in time.
If your GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B start drifting apart, if a large supplier stops filing, or if your turnover approaches the e-invoice threshold, we flag it to you immediately. Early warnings from our side are cheaper than departmental letters later.
GSTR-1 requires four-digit HSN reporting for turnover up to Rs.5 crore and six digits above it, and a wrong code often means a wrong rate. We verify the classification of what you actually supply, so your invoices and returns rest on defensible codes.
No filing leaves our desk on a junior's judgement alone. A senior GST practitioner reviews your figures, ITC claims and tax computation before submission, so errors are caught at our table and not by the department months later through a notice.
We examine whether the notice is under Section 73 or 74, check the limitation period, and break the demand into issues that can be defended separately.
Each issue is tested against your records, GSTR-2B and case law, and we give you a candid view of what is defensible and what is genuinely payable.
A detailed statutory reply is drafted in Form DRC-06 with reconciliations, invoices and legal grounds, shared for your approval and filed on the portal in time.
We represent you at the personal hearing. For any admitted liability we file DRC-03 promptly, using the concessional closure available under Section 73 where applicable.
We track the adjudication outcome, review any order in DRC-07, and advise on rectification or appeal in APL-01 within three months if the demand is confirmed.
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Timeline: Draft reply in 5-7 working days · No hidden charges · GST invoice provided
Practical outcomes our clients measure us by.
With returns filed ahead of the statutory due dates every period, the Rs.50-per-day GSTR-3B late fee simply stops appearing in your life, and the money stays in your business where it belongs.
Late-fee waivers and amnesty windows notified by the GST Council are applied to your history within their deadlines, capturing reliefs that most businesses only hear about once the window has already closed.
New branches, new product lines and interstate sales all carry GST consequences. With standing professional support, you expand knowing registrations, invoicing and returns will keep pace with the business.
Because turnover in your GST returns is kept aligned with your accounts through the year, income tax filing and statutory audit proceed without the GST-versus-books mismatch queries that now surface routinely through data matching.
Where a genuine error is found in a past period, voluntary payment through DRC-03 before any notice issues closes the matter at minimal cost, instead of letting it ripen into a demand with penalty.
When GST knowledge lives inside a single staff member, their resignation becomes a compliance crisis. With our firm as the standing process, your filings continue uninterrupted regardless of internal staff changes.
| Aspect | With ChennaiGST | DIY / Unattended |
|---|---|---|
| Record keeping | Every return, challan, acknowledgement and working paper archived in an organised folder, retrievable in minutes years later. | Documents scattered across email, downloads and old phones; assembling records for a bank or an audit takes days. |
| Portal credentials and data | Logins handled by a small engaged team under strict confidentiality, with credentials stored securely and never passed onward. | Passwords circulating on chats with freelancers and part-timers, and no accountability for who has accessed your business data. |
| Registration and amendments | Query-resistant applications prepared correctly the first time, with supporting documents matched to what proper officers actually verify. | Repeated clarification memos and resubmissions, with weeks lost because a rent agreement or premises photograph did not meet expectations. |
| Time cost | Roughly an hour a month to send data and approve drafts; the portal work, reconciliation and follow-up are ours. | Hours every month lost to portal errors, JSON files, OTP failures and reworking figures — usually on the due date itself. |
| Due-date tracking | A maintained compliance calendar with internal cut-offs days before the 11th and the 20th; we chase you for data, not the other way around. | Deadlines remembered from memory or phone alarms; one busy week and the return slips past the due date. |
| Annual return preparation | Monthly reconciliations roll naturally into GSTR-9, filed comfortably before 31 December with figures already agreed through the year. | Twelve months of unmatched data reconstructed in December, with differences discovered too late to be corrected cleanly. |
Real notifications, rulings and case law our consultants track — and apply to client filings and notice replies.
Mandarina Apartment Owners Welfare Association v. Commercial Tax Officer/State Tax Officer — Madras High Court, W.P. Nos. 15307 and 15330 of 2024, 2024:MHC:2708, decided 16 July 2024 (Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy J.) · 2024-07-16
The Madras High Court held that where discrepancies are noticed while scrutinising returns under Section 61, issuing Form GST ASMT-10 is mandatory; however, the absence of an ASMT-10 does not by itself vitiate subsequent proceedings under Sections 73 or 74. On the facts the assessment orders were set aside and remanded so that the taxpayers could file replies and be heard, the Court preferring substantive procedural fairness over a purely technical outcome.
Practical effect: Raise the missing ASMT-10 as a ground in your reply, but do not rely on it alone — build the case on merits and on absence of hearing as well.
Circular No. 185/17/2022-GST · 2022-12-27
Where an appellate authority, tribunal or court holds that a notice issued under Section 74 is not sustainable because fraud, wilful misstatement or suppression of facts is not established, Section 75(2) requires the proper officer to re-determine the tax as though the notice had been issued under Section 73. The Board clarified that this re-determination must be completed within two years from the date of communication of that order, and only the normal period demand can survive.
How we apply it: Winning on the suppression point in appeal does not end the matter, but it limits the surviving Chennai demand to the normal period and starts a two-year clock on the department.
Notification No. 15/2018-Central Tax dated 23.03.2018 · 2018-03-23
This notification appointed 1 April 2018 as the date from which the substituted e-way bill provisions in rules 138 to 138D came into force. From that date an e-way bill became mandatory for inter-State movement of goods of consignment value exceeding Rs 50,000. Intra-State e-way bill requirements were rolled out State by State over the following weeks under State notifications, rather than by this Central notification.
Why this matters: For a Chennai business, inter-State e-way bills have been compulsory since 1 April 2018, while the Tamil Nadu intra-State position was notified separately by the State authority.
References are provided for general information. Verify the current position on gst.gov.in or cbic.gov.in before acting.
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