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Airline ITC Recovery · Our flagship practice
We collect every airline GST invoice your company is owed, match it to your returns and recover the credit that was missed. Then we monitor it every month, so it never builds up again.
FY 2025–26 airline credit can only be claimed until 30 November 2026, or your annual return filing if that comes first. After that, it is lost for good.
Check what you can still claimEvery airline ticket booked for business carries GST your company can claim back. But the credit only counts if the right invoice, with 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. And the deadline to claim passes quietly every November.
Finance teams know the money is there. Few have the time or tools to chase thousands of invoices across every airline. That is the only job this practice does.
Move the sliders to match your company. This is a quick estimate based on typical tax rates; the free assessment gives you the real number, invoice by invoice.
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Estimate only. Assumes GST applies to about 80% of the ticket value and about 90% of travel is for business. Not tax advice.
A ticket has to pass six checkpoints before its GST becomes credit in your books. It can be lost at any of them. Select a checkpoint to see how.
Source: TraCarta view of typical patterns across client work. Illustrative; your breakdown will differ.
Our systems do the collecting, matching and chasing at a volume no finance team can. Our specialists make every call that needs judgment. You hand over the problem and receive the result.
We pull every invoice and credit note directly from airline portals, for every GSTIN. No dependence on travel agency reports.
AutomatedEach invoice is matched to GSTR-2B and your books, ticket by ticket, and every gap is given a value.
AutomatedA specialist decides eligibility on every gap: business use, blocked credit, place of supply, time limits.
SpecialistAirlines are followed up until missing or wrong invoices are issued correctly. Credit notes are tracked so reversals are never missed.
AutomatedSpecialistEvery month, new tickets are collected and matched, so credit is claimed in the right period and never builds up again.
AutomatedSpecialistWhat you receive
Every document your tax team, auditors and the department could ask for, prepared by us and sent to you. Select one to see a sample.
Most clients start with a clean-up of past periods and move to monthly monitoring. Fees are agreed upfront and based on ticket volume, not hours.
Recover everything still claimable from past periods, before the time limit closes it.
Credit claimed in the right month, every month, so nothing builds up and nothing expires.
Money owed back on cancelled and unused tickets, traced from your own invoices and bank data.
We collect invoices from Indian carriers and from international airlines that issue Indian GST invoices, for every GSTIN in your group.
Straight answers on airline credit.
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. Travel that is personal, or a benefit to employees on leave, is blocked.
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.
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.
No. We collect invoices directly from airline portals and match them to your own records. Agency reports help, but we don't depend on them.
When a ticket is cancelled, the airline issues a credit note and the credit has to be reversed. We track every credit note so you never over-claim, which matters as much in an audit as the credit itself.
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.
General information only, not tax advice. We confirm eligibility for your specific facts during the engagement.
Share one year of travel data. Within two weeks, a specialist will show you exactly what is still claimable, and what it's worth.
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