Question 1

We supply a government department. Why is 2% being cut from every bill?

Accepted Answer

That is GST TDS under section 51. Government departments, local authorities, PSUs and other notified bodies have to deduct 2% of the taxable value on any contract where the value exceeds ₹2.5 lakh, split as 1% CGST and 1% SGST, or 2% IGST on an inter-state supply. It is not a cost to you. The deductor files GSTR-7, the amount appears in your electronic cash ledger, and you use it to pay your own liability. The problem is only ever administrative: if the department files late, files against the wrong GSTIN, or does not file at all, the credit never arrives and you have funded their delay. We reconcile what was deducted against what actually reached the ledger, and chase the gap.

Question 2

Is TDS deducted on income tax as well on a government contract?

Accepted Answer

Usually yes, and it is a separate deduction from the GST one. Payments to contractors attract TDS under section 194C, and the rate depends on whether the payee is an individual or HUF rather than on the contract. Both deductions show up in different places: the income tax TDS in your Form 26AS and AIS, the GST TDS in your cash ledger. Reconciling both against the bills you actually raised, before the return rather than after a notice, is most of the work on a government-facing business.

Question 3

What is the tax position for a unit in GIFT City?

Accepted Answer

A unit in the International Financial Services Centre can claim a deduction of 100% of its business income under section 80LA for any ten consecutive assessment years out of fifteen, chosen by the unit. On the indirect side, GIFT IFSC sits inside a multi-services SEZ, so supplies made to a unit there for authorised operations are zero-rated under section 16 of the IGST Act, which means the supplier either furnishes an undertaking and ships without paying IGST, or pays and claims a refund. The structuring decisions, which entity, which activity, and whether IFSCA registration is required, all come before the first return rather than after it.

Question 4

Do you have an office in Gandhinagar?

Accepted Answer

Not in Gandhinagar itself, and we would rather say so than imply a branch. The nearest office is B-301, Krishna Complex, Rajpath Bunglows Road, opposite Devashish Complex, Satellite, Ahmedabad 380015 — roughly half an hour up SG Highway, which is close enough to meet in a morning. The main office remains Junagadh, where the firm has worked since 2007. In practice almost everything for a Gandhinagar client runs on documents over WhatsApp or email, a call to agree the figures, and portal filings with the acknowledgement sent straight back. What wants a table and a file, Satellite now has.

Question 5

What will this cost?

Accepted Answer

You get a figure in writing after the first call and before anything is filed. We do not quote from a web page, because the honest answer for a GSTR-7 reconciliation or an IFSC set-up depends on how many work orders or how many licences are involved, and a number invented to look decisive is worse than no number. What we will say in advance: the first conversation costs nothing, routine filing work is quoted as a fixed fee rather than by the hour, and nothing starts until you have agreed the scope.

Question 6

We already have an accountant. Can you take over mid-year?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and on a government-facing business it is the usual way we start, because the problem that prompts the call is almost always a reconciliation nobody has done. What we need is the portal logins, the filings made so far this year, and the previous year's return and accounts. Before taking anything on we review what has already been filed, so an inherited error does not quietly become ours. If we find one, you hear it as a finding with the cost of fixing it attached. We are also happy to work alongside an in-house accountant who keeps the books while we handle filings, reconciliation and notices.

Question 7

The department has not filed its GSTR-7. What can we actually do?

Accepted Answer

You cannot file it for them, and the credit cannot appear in your cash ledger until they do, so the work is pressure applied in the right place with the right evidence. That means a reconciliation showing exactly which bills were deducted from and which deductions never arrived, written to the deducting officer with the work order and payment advices attached, and followed up. It is tedious and it works more often than people expect, mainly because a department presented with its own arithmetic usually files. Where the deduction was made against a wrong GSTIN, the correction has to come from their side too, and that is a specific amendment we can set out for them.

Question 8

The deadline has already gone. Is there any point now?

Accepted Answer

Usually yes, and the sooner the better, because almost every consequence here grows with time rather than landing at once. A belated return can still be filed, with interest and a late fee. An unfiled GST return keeps accruing late fee per day and blocks your buyer's credit, which on a government contract can hold up your own payment. An ROC form runs at ₹100 a day per form with no ceiling. An appeal has a 30-day window with a condonation route after it. Send us the position and the first thing back is the arithmetic of waiting another month.

Question 9

A tender wants our filings in order. What will they actually check?

Accepted Answer

In practice: a valid GST registration with returns filed up to date, income tax returns for the last two or three years, a Udyam certificate if you are claiming an MSME benefit, and for a company, that the ROC filings are not in arrears. The one that trips people is GST return status, because it is public on the portal and a single unfiled 3B shows. We tend to get the whole position current first and then let you bid, rather than the other way round.

Question 10

We have not filed ROC returns for a couple of years. How bad is it?

Accepted Answer

Arithmetic rather than judgement. The additional fee on a late AOC-4 or MGT-7 is ₹100 per day per form with no upper limit, so it grows every day it is left. A director who has missed DIR-3 KYC finds the DIN deactivated until the fee is paid. We work out the complete position in writing first, so you see the whole figure before deciding anything, rather than filing one form and discovering the next.

Question 11

Which areas do you cover around Gandhinagar?

Accepted Answer

Gandhinagar city and its sectors, GIFT City, Infocity, Kudasan, Sargasan, Raysan, Adalaj, Pethapur, Kalol and Chhatral, plus Ahmedabad next door — where the nearest office is — and the rest of Gujarat.

Work	Typical time	What decides it
GST TDS reconciliation	5 to 10 working days	Depends on how many work orders and bills are in play. Chasing a deductor who has not filed takes longer and is outside anybody's control.
GST registration	3 to 7 working days	Faster where the premises proof is clean. Physical verification adds a week or more.
Company or LLP incorporation	7 to 12 working days	Name approval is the variable. A rejected name resets the clock on that part.
Tender compliance clean-up	Position in 2 to 3 days, filings 1 to 3 weeks	You get the full picture and the cost first, because a bid deadline decides the order things are filed in.
IFSC entity set-up (non-regulated)	8 to 12 weeks to operating licence	IFSCA timelines, not ours. Regulated activity is 4 to 6 months because of net-worth and personnel conditions.
Reply to a notice	Inside the notice window, always	We work backwards from the deadline on the notice rather than forwards from when the papers arrive.
Udyam registration	Same day	Aadhaar OTP and the turnover figures are all it needs.
Backlog of ROC filings	Position in writing in 2 to 3 days	The additional fee is ₹100 a day per form with no ceiling, so you see the whole number before deciding.

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