Income Tax
Income-tax work for individuals and businesses in Lucknow, from planning a transaction to answering what comes back from the department.
Direct and indirect tax work, handled alongside the documentation and agreements the same business already relies on.
Tax and GST
Tax questions rarely arrive on their own. A notice about an unexplained credit turns on the loan agreement behind it. A dispute about input tax credit turns on the vendor contract and what the invoices actually record. A capital-gains question on a property sale turns on the sale deed and the chain before it. Where the documentation and the tax position are dealt with by the same practice, each is examined against the other rather than in isolation.
The work in this section is of two kinds and the difference is worth stating plainly. Advising on the legal position, drafting replies to notices and appearing before a tax authority as an authorised representative is work an advocate does. Audit, and any certificate that only a chartered accountant or company secretary may sign, is not; where a matter requires it, that part is coordinated with the appropriate professional rather than claimed here.
Services
Each page below deals with one service and the questions it raises.
Income-tax work for individuals and businesses in Lucknow, from planning a transaction to answering what comes back from the department.
Getting the return right by getting the documents behind it right first.
Reading what a notice actually asks for, and answering it with documents rather than assertions.
Contested income-tax proceedings — during the assessment, and after an order has gone against you.
Getting registered correctly, with the documents that support the application and survive later scrutiny.
Periodic filing, and the reconciliation that keeps it from turning into a notice.
Answering departmental correspondence under GST, from a mismatch query to a show-cause notice.
Closing a registration properly, and getting one back where it has been cancelled by the department.
Questions
The documents are the same documents. A reply to a tax notice usually stands or falls on an agreement, an invoice trail or a deed, and those are drafted, reviewed and produced by the same practice. It also avoids the position where the answer given to a tax authority does not match what the contract says.
Return preparation is carried out with, or coordinated with, a chartered accountant, and audit and any certificate that only a chartered accountant or company secretary may sign is their work, not an advocate's. What is done here is the legal side: advice, drafting, replies to notices, and representation before the authority.
None are stated on this website, deliberately. Due dates, thresholds, rates and fees are notified and revised, and extensions are common. The position applicable to your category and period is checked against the current notification and portal when your matter is taken up.
Note the date you received it, and look at what the notice actually asks for and the provision it is issued under, because that determines both the response and the time you have. Do not file a partial reply to stop the clock without advice; an inaccurate reply is harder to correct than a late one.
The practice
Each advocate of the firm is enrolled with the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh and holds a Certificate of Practice.
Reading
General information notes on this area. They are not legal advice.
Where the firm works
The firm's office is in Lucknow. Matters arising in other districts of Uttar Pradesh are conducted from Lucknow before the court, tribunal or authority that has jurisdiction over them. There is no branch office elsewhere. Which forum will hear a particular matter depends on its subject, its value and where the cause of action arose, and is confirmed before anything is filed.
This page is general information about an area of practice. It is not legal advice, and it is not an advertisement or a solicitation of work. Reading it creates no advocate–client relationship.
Procedures, limitation periods, court fees, stamp duty and government charges change, and what applies depends on the facts of the particular matter. Nothing here should be acted on without advice on your own documents, and no outcome is promised or predicted.
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