Chennai's dedicated GST practice · GSTR-1 due 11th · GSTR-3B due 20th/22nd
Most of it happens without you leaving your shop counter. Share your documents on WhatsApp, approve the prepared draft, and your GST Refund RFD-01 is completed on the portal from Rs.4,999 — by a Chennai team that businesses across Tiruninravur have relied on for years.
We serve businesses on and around Second Cross — document pickup, in-person consultation at our Porur office, or fully online over WhatsApp.
Share your number — a senior GST consultant calls you back within 30 minutes.
GST does not distinguish between a large showroom and a small service unit — the due dates and matching systems apply equally to both. Tiruninravur is a municipality on the Chennai-Tiruttani (CTH) Road built around the Bhaktavatsala Perumal temple and its suburban railway station, with provision wholesalers, hardware, textile and jewellery shops along Eswaran Nagar Main Road and the bus stand, engineering units at Nemilicheri and the Jaya group of colleges on CTH Road. Builders selling flats here need help on construction-service GST, and traders need timely registration once turnover crosses the limit. That is why our GST Refund RFD-01 engagements in Tiruninravur follow the same discipline whatever the client's size: written checklists, reconciliation before filing and every acknowledgement archived. Businesses from Veppampattu and Pattabiram run on the same process, entirely over WhatsApp if they prefer.
Not a bulk-filing portal. A senior consultant knows your file, your jurisdiction and your deadlines.
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.
A new GSTIN comes with obligations nobody explains at approval — the invoice series rules, displaying the registration certificate and GSTIN at your premises, and the first return cycle. We walk new registrants in Tiruninravur through each of these so month one starts correctly.
Winding up attracts its own GST obligations — the cancellation application, reversal of credit on closing stock, and the final return in GSTR-10 within three months. We close registrations properly so a business you shut in Tiruninravur never writes back to you as a demand years later.
Every acknowledgement, challan, computation sheet and filed return is saved and shared with you in an organised folder. When a bank, buyer or GST officer asks for a document from two years ago, it reaches you the same day without any scrambling.
Quarterly filing still demands monthly attention — IFF uploads so your buyers see their credit on time, and tax payment through PMT-06 by the 25th for the first two months of each quarter. We run that monthly rhythm so QRMP saves you effort without creating gaps.
If a query, ASMT-10 scrutiny notice or DRC-01 arrives on a return we filed, we stand behind our work and help you draft the reply. You are not left alone with a departmental letter and a thirty-day clock ticking against you.
We identify the correct refund category, confirm the two-year limitation from the relevant date, and compute the admissible amount using the formula prescribed under the rules.
Invoices, shipping bills, FIRCs, the LUT and ledger extracts are compiled into the prescribed statements, and gaps that commonly cause deficiency memos are fixed upfront.
The refund application is filed on the portal with all annexures and declarations, and the acknowledgement in RFD-02 is tracked within the statutory fifteen days.
We respond to any deficiency memo in RFD-03 or show cause notice in RFD-08, appear through written submissions, and pursue provisional refund where the category permits.
We track the sanction order in RFD-06 and payment advice in RFD-05, confirm the credit in your validated bank account, and archive the complete claim file.
Send these on WhatsApp (+91 - 9600 606 444) and we take it forward the same day.
Timeline: Application filed in 3-5 working days; sanction typically within 60 days · No hidden charges · GST invoice provided
Practical outcomes our clients measure us by.
When a query or verification comes, you respond through a professional who deals with the department regularly, in the department's own language and format, instead of facing an officer's letter alone.
Because monthly data is reconciled as it happens, GSTR-9 preparation before the 31 December due date becomes a review exercise rather than a painful reconstruction of twelve untidy months.
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.
Consistent, reconciled returns give the department's matching systems nothing to flag. Clients who move to us after years of self-filing typically see scrutiny queries and mismatch notices fall away within a few filing cycles.
The hours you or your accountant spent wrestling with the portal, JSON errors and reconciliations every month return to sales, operations and customers, while trained hands manage the compliance in the background.
| Aspect | With ChennaiGST | DIY / Unattended |
|---|---|---|
| When a notice arrives | A professional drafts the reply in the department's format and files it within the statutory window, such as thirty days for ASMT-11. | You face departmental language alone, and a missed reply deadline can convert a simple query into a demand with penalty. |
| Goods in transit | E-way bills generated correctly and matched to invoices, so consignments pass roadside inspections without detention or penalty. | A defective or missing e-way bill can mean detention at a checkpoint, with penalties that dwarf the tax on the consignment. |
| 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. |
| Refund claims | RFD-01 filed with complete statements and annexures, tracked from ARN to bank credit, with any deficiency memo answered promptly. | Incomplete claims bounce back as deficiency memos while the refund sits unclaimed for months and working capital stays blocked. |
| Supplier defaults | Suppliers who stop uploading invoices are identified within the period and pursued before their default becomes your blocked credit. | Missing supplier invoices surface only when credit is denied, by which time recovering the amount from the vendor is difficult. |
| 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. |
Second Cross is a residential street in Tiruninravur, about 2.1 km north of the centre of Tiruninravur. The same consultant covers the streets immediately around it — 4th Street (about 50 m); 5th Street (about 50 m); 3rd Street (about 100 m); Ms Royal Gate Main Road (about 100 m) — so a site visit on Second Cross can usually be combined with other work in Tiruninravur on the same trip. For GST purposes an address on Second Cross falls under the Chennai Outer CGST Commissionerate, and the Tiruninravur pincode is 602024.
Road classification and position from OpenStreetMap; distances are straight-line and approximate. Jurisdiction must be confirmed on your own registration certificate.
A working knowledge of recent instruments and judgments is what separates a defensible filing from a risky one.
Circular No. 135/05/2020-GST dated 31 March 2020 · 2020-03-31
This circular made four significant changes. Refund claims cannot be bunched across financial years. Refund of accumulated credit on account of an inverted duty structure is not available where the inversion arises only because the rate on the same goods was reduced over time, since input and output are the same. Refund of tax paid on supplies other than zero-rated is repaid proportionately in cash and credit. Most importantly, refund of accumulated credit is restricted to invoices actually reflected in the applicant's GSTR-2A, and HSN or SAC must be shown in Annexure-B.
What to do about it: Refund working papers must now tie back to GSTR-2A invoice by invoice, and traders whose stock simply became cheaper cannot claim an inverted-duty refund.
Notification No. 08/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 · 2017-06-28
Section 9(4) of the CGST Act as originally enacted made a registered person liable to pay tax under reverse charge on all inward supplies received from unregistered persons. This notification granted a de minimis exemption where the aggregate value of such supplies received from all unregistered suppliers did not exceed Rs 5,000 in a day. The exemption proved unworkable in practice and section 9(4) was soon suspended altogether.
Why this matters: This threshold only matters for the July to October 2017 period, and Chennai businesses still facing scrutiny for those months should check the daily aggregate rather than invoice-wise values.
Chief Commissioner of CGST v. Safari Retreats (P) Ltd — Supreme Court, 2024 · 2024-10-03
The Supreme Court read down the ITC block in Section 17(5)(d) CGST Act for construction of immovable property. It held that the phrase 'plant or machinery' differs from the defined 'plant and machinery', and whether a building qualifies as a 'plant' must be decided case by case using a functionality test — for example, a shopping mall built essentially to supply renting services could qualify, allowing input tax credit on its construction.
How we apply it: Chennai businesses constructing malls, warehouses or commercial premises for leasing should evaluate ITC claims under the functionality test, but must factor in the 2025 retrospective amendment substituting 'plant and machinery' before relying on this ruling.
References are provided for general information. Verify the current position on gst.gov.in or cbic.gov.in before acting.
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