Tax Advisory and Compliance

Taxation in India is dynamic where the regulatory environment is evolving constantly making it a challenge for small, medium, large, and growing businesses. At C S Rathi & Associates, we work with Corporates, startups, and SMEs offering customized tax-planning tactics that fit your business structure.

When it comes to Tax advisory and planning, our Direct and Indirect Tax department work hand-in-hand to do a 360 degree analysis from both Income-Tax and GST perspective simultaneously to deliver solutions keeping business opportunities, industry and your business goals in mind.

We work with startups, SMEs, multinationals, entrepreneurs and individuals looking to grow their business to reduce your business and personal tax exposure through tax planning keeping you abreast of the changing tax requirements in India and abroad.

Our tax and regulatory services include:

Income Tax returns

E-TDS Returns

The government introduced E-TDS Returns to fight against fraud and make filing seamless and easy. At CSR & A, we work with your team to help you understand the details you must fill up in the forms, the frequency of returns for every business and the generation of the TDS challan.

Income-Tax Assessment Appeals

Tax interpretation and legal action in India needs a thorough understanding of complex tax laws and an innovative solution to handle controversial issues. At CSR & A, our team works to ensure

  • Tax representation before the tax reviewer and other tax authorities during audit or investigation through the revenue department
  • Help you make the right appeals for tax lawsuits before Tax Commissioner
  • Consult on tax litigation approach and its execution
  • Analyze your litigation history and help you understand the risk involved.
  • Help to evaluate your tax position and help in taking remedial measures accordingly
  • Briefing and support to the external advocate for representation before ITAT, the High Court or Supreme Court

Transfer Pricing

The transfer pricing team offers diverse services to handle large global assignments including country-to-country reporting. We are a self-motivated group that helps clients in corporate decision-making at various stages of inter-business trade transactions offering customized solutions for forecasting, creating policies, execution, documentation, compliance, and representation before the revenue and tax appellate.

Our transfer pricing solutions include:

  • Helping your business create documentation for international transactions, functional analysis, comparability analysis, and Industry and business overview
  • Help in getting the Accountant’s Report in Form 3CEB, Master File and country-by-country (CbC) report
  • Help in preparation of the Master File
  • Help in setting up the operational model for the business
  • Help in preparing the global transfer pricing policy document
  • Supply chain restructuring, if needed
  • Organize administration subscription payments, fee payments, inter-business funding plans
  • Help resolve disputes and representation at Appellate tribunals if required

Remittance Certificates

  • Advising on the Tax to be deducted while making foreign remittances
  • Preparation of Form 15CA and 15CB

Low Tax Deduction Certificate

We make sure your books of accounts are correct and verify the taxes paid earlier. Based on taxes paid in advance and your IT returns, we help you file for a low tax deduction certificate if needed.

Periodic GST returns

Just like filing of income tax is periodical, companies must file periodic GST returns and one annual GST return in a year. To ensure you are keeping up with GST compliances we

  • Help with registrations under GST
  • Verify input tax credit records and find unqualified credits
  • Evaluate the regular tax liability calculations
  • Help in preparing and filing regular return/s
  • Offer GSP or ASP solutions for smooth execution of periodic compliances
  • File legal submissions with various authorities as required

Assessment and Appeals

We understand GST is fairly new, and the chances of missing out on a few compliances are high. To make sure you don’t have an issue or help you overcome your GST issues we

  • Help in preparing responses to notices, investigations, and other communications the revenue or assessing departments send to you.
  • Help in preparing and filing petitions against demands received from the tax appellate
  • Presenting before the tax authorities and helping external legal counsel, if needed
  • Filing advance ruling requests with the tax departments to seek an explanation on confusing matters

Processing refunds

Our GST experts understand your business requirements thoroughly before filing GST returns. However, sometimes where you have an unutilized input tax credit, we work with you to claim a refund. To do so, we

  • Evaluate your GST returns
  • Check for possibility of unutilized input credits
  • File refund requests for you