Every Ticket. Every Invoice. Every Month.
Every business ticket carries GST your company can claim back. We collect every airline invoice and credit note, match it to your returns, and make sure the credit is claimed in the right month, before the deadline closes it.
Left to claim airline credit for FY . After 30 November, or your annual return if that comes first, missed credit is lost for good.
What to check nowThe Credit Is Yours
It just rarely reaches your books.
The credit only counts if the right invoice, carrying the right GSTIN, reaches your returns in time. Invoices sit on dozens of airline portals. Travellers forget to give the company GSTIN. Tickets get billed to the wrong state. Airlines file late. Credit notes from cancellations go unrecorded.
Finance teams know the money is there. Few have the time or the tools to chase thousands of invoices across every airline, every month. That is the only job this service does, and we have done it since 2018.
Six Checkpoints Between Booking and Credit
A ticket has to pass all six before its GST becomes credit in your books. It can be lost at any of them.
- Booked with your GSTINThe traveller or agency quotes the right company registration.Most credit is lost here
- Airline issues the invoiceA tax invoice, addressed to that GSTIN, on the airline’s portal.
- Airline reports itThe airline files the invoice in its GSTR-1 for the month.
- It reaches your GSTR-2BGenerated on the 14th, after your IMS actions.
- You claim itIn GSTR-3B, against the right registration.
- Before the deadlineBy 30 November of the following year at the latest.
Where Unclaimed Airline Credit Leaks
Share of unclaimed credit by checkpoint, typical pattern across client work
Source: TraCarta view of patterns across client work. Illustrative; your pattern will differ.
Two Rates, Twice the Attention
Since 22 September 2025 the cabin on the ticket decides the GST rate, so a missing premium invoice now costs more than ever.
How We Do It
Our systems collect, match and chase at a volume no finance team can. Our specialists make every call that needs judgment. You hand over the problem and receive the result.
- CollectEvery invoice and credit note pulled directly from airline portals, for every GSTIN. No dependence on travel agency reports.Our systems
- MatchEach invoice matched to GSTR-2B and your books, ticket by ticket, and every gap given a value.Our systems
- DecideA specialist rules on every gap: business use, blocked credit, place of supply, time limits.Specialist
- RecoverAirlines chased until missing or wrong invoices are issued correctly. Credit notes tracked so reversals are never missed.Our systemsSpecialist
- MonitorEvery month, new tickets collected and matched, so credit is claimed in the right period and never builds up again.Our systemsSpecialist
What Lands on Your Desk
Every document your tax team, auditors and the department could ask for, prepared by us and sent to you each month.
- Signed monthly statement: what to claim, by GSTIN
- Reconciliation workbook, one row per ticket
- Airline follow-up log, until every request closes
- Credit note register, so you never over-claim
- Audit-ready file for everything claimed
| GSTIN | Tickets | Credit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haryana | 1,284 | ₹6.9 L | Claim |
| Maharashtra | 972 | ₹5.1 L | Claim |
| Karnataka | 640 | ₹3.4 L | 2 invoices missing |
| Tamil Nadu | 418 | ₹2.0 L | Claim |
| Delhi | 226 | ₹1.2 L | Your decision |
Illustrative sample
Three Ways to Work With Us
Most clients start with a clean-up of open periods and move to monthly monitoring. Fees are agreed upfront and based on ticket volume, not hours.
Clean-up
Recover everything still claimable from past periods, before the time limit closes it.
- All open periods within the time limit
- Full invoice collection and matching
- Airline follow-ups to closure
- Audit-ready file for every claim
Monthly Monitoring
Credit claimed in the right month, every month, so nothing builds up and nothing expires.
- Everything in Clean-up
- New tickets collected and matched monthly
- Credit note and reversal tracking
- Invoice-level reconciliation workbook
- Named specialist and signed monthly statement
- SkyBoard dashboard available as an add-on, built around your needs
Airline Cash Recovery
Money owed back on cancelled and unused tickets, traced from your own invoices and bank data.
- Cancelled and unused ticket refunds
- Matched to invoices and bank statements
- No dependence on agency reports
- Pursued with airlines to closure
Every Airline Your People Fly
We collect invoices from Indian carriers and from international airlines that issue Indian GST invoices, for every GSTIN in your group.
Indian carriers, for example
- IndiGo
- Air India
- Air India Express
- Akasa Air
- SpiceJet
- Alliance Air
- Star Air
- Fly91
International carriers, for example
- Emirates
- Qatar Airways
- Etihad Airways
- Singapore Airlines
- Lufthansa
- British Airways
- United Airlines
- Cathay Pacific
- and more
Results
Illustrative case studies from typical engagements. All case studies
Airline GST ReconciliationRecovering three years of unclaimed travel credit across 11 GSTINs
Airline GST ReconciliationFinding credit booked to the wrong state
Airline GST ReconciliationMatching travel invoices across hundreds of branch registrations
Questions Tax Heads Ask
Something else? Write to connect@tracarta.in.
Can we claim GST on airline tickets at all?
Yes. GST charged on air travel used for business can generally be claimed as input tax credit, subject to the usual conditions: a valid invoice in your company’s GSTIN, the credit showing in GSTR-2B, and the claim made within the time limit. Personal travel is not eligible.
What is the deadline to claim?
Credit for a financial year must be claimed by 30 November of the following year, or by the date you file your annual return if that is earlier. For FY 2025–26, that means 30 November 2026 at the latest.
What if our travellers didn’t give the company GSTIN when booking?
That is the single most common reason credit goes missing. Depending on the airline and the time passed, invoices can often still be issued or corrected. We check every ticket and pursue it wherever the time limit allows.
Do you need our travel agency’s reports?
No. We collect invoices directly from airline portals and match them to your own records. Agency reports help us tie tickets to travellers, but we don’t depend on them.
What about cancellations and credit notes?
When a ticket is cancelled or changed, the airline issues a credit note and the credit has to be adjusted. We track every credit note so you never over-claim, which matters as much in an audit as the credit itself.
Will you need access to our GST portal?
We work from your GSTR-2B data and books. Whether you share read access or export the data yourselves is your choice, and we agree it at the start.
How long before we see results?
The free review covers 15 days of air tickets and takes two weeks. On a clean-up, the first monthly statement usually arrives within six to eight weeks.
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