Received a GST or income tax notice? We'll handle the response.

Notices don't resolve themselves — and ignoring them makes it worse

A GST or income tax notice is rarely as bad as it looks on first read, but it does need a proper, timely response — ignore it and a routine mismatch query can escalate into a best-judgment assessment with a demand attached. Most notices are procedural: a data mismatch, a missing reconciliation, or a clarification request that a well-documented response resolves cleanly.

We review the notice, identify exactly what triggered it, gather the supporting records, and draft a response that addresses the specific query — whether that's a GSTR mismatch notice, a TDS defect notice, an income tax scrutiny assessment, or a show-cause notice under any head.

What's included

Support is scoped to the specific notice, but typically includes:

How we handle your notice

1. Share the notice

Send us the notice as soon as you receive it — the response window starts from the date of issue, not from when you send it to us.

2. Review & document gathering

We identify the root cause and request any supporting documents needed to build the response.

3. Response & filing

The response is drafted, reviewed with you, and filed through the correct portal within the statutory deadline.

Why a notice is not something to sit on

A notice from the GST or Income Tax department triggers two very different reactions in founders: panic, or a decision to deal with it later. Both are dangerous. A tax notice is a clock, and the response window is usually measured in days or a few short weeks — miss it and the decision gets made without you, almost always against you.

When a notice goes unanswered, the officer is empowered to complete a best-judgment or ex-parte assessment — an estimate of your liability made on the department's assumptions, with no benefit of your explanation. That estimate is routinely far higher than the real figure, and once it crystallises into a demand, it carries interest and penalty and can be enforced through coercive recovery: attachment of bank accounts, recovery from debtors, and more. Unwinding a bad order means appeals, pre-deposits and months of effort — all avoidable by responding properly the first time.

The modern faceless assessment system makes the quality of the written reply decisive. There's no officer to read your body language or hear you out in person — your case is made entirely through the documents and submissions you upload within the window. A reply that's late, incomplete, or unsupported by reconciled records is a weak case, however strong the underlying facts.

The best defence is filings that never trigger one

Most notices aren't random. They're triggered by mismatches — a gap between your GST returns and your income-tax figures, credit claimed that doesn't reconcile with GSTR-2B, TDS that doesn't tie to 26AS, or ratios that look off against your sector. Clean, reconciled monthly accounting and disciplined compliance are the real defence: they remove the mismatches that generate scrutiny in the first place, and they mean that when a notice does arrive, the supporting evidence already exists and reconciles.

When we handle a notice, we read exactly what's being asked, assemble the records that answer it, draft a reasoned reply with the law and the numbers, and represent you through the assessment or audit to its conclusion — including any rectification or appeal that follows. Because we can also see your books and filings, the reply is grounded in your actual records, not a hopeful reconstruction.

Pricing

Pricing depends on the complexity and nature of the notice — a routine reconciliation notice costs meaningfully less than a full scrutiny assessment. See our pricing page for indicative ranges, or get an exact, itemised quote in one call.

Frequently asked questions