For travel tax in India.
One firm. One subject. Recovery, advisory, audit defence, and structuring — the full surface of indirect tax that touches corporate travel.
One firm. Four capabilities. One body of work.
Travel tax is a wide enough surface to need a firm, narrow enough that one firm can do all of it well. We cover the recovery work, the advisory work, the audit defence work, and the structuring work. Most engagements use more than one of them.
Recovery
The largest line of the firm's work. Twelve months of airline and hotel GST audited against your filings, every recoverable credit identified, claimed, reconciled, posted to your ERP. The engine handles volume; the tax desk handles judgment.
Advisory
Pre-engagement positions on contested questions. ITC eligibility on cancellation credits, treatment of LTC reimbursements, hotel place-of-supply where the buyer and the property sit in different states. Written positions from the firm, defensible.
Audit Defence
When scrutiny opens, we defend the firm's positions on the record. Every claim we ever posted has a paper trail behind it, the invoice, the reconciliation, the opinion, the approver. We respond to queries, draft submissions, sit in hearings.
Structuring
Travel programmes are tax-shaped. Entity-level GSTIN strategy, multi-state hotel exposure planning, vendor master clean-up to make ITC clean at source. We advise on how to set the programme up so the recovery side gets easier every year.
A tax practice on top. An engine underneath.
A traditional tax practice scales by hiring. A modern technology firm scales by licensing software. TraCarta does neither. The firm scales by building purpose-built tools that take the volume work off the practice's hands, so the practice itself can stay specialist.
The work is split into two layers. On top, the tax desk, qualified Chartered Accountants who write opinions, defend positions, and sign the work. Underneath, TravelSuite, the firm's engine. It captures invoices, reconciles them against the GST network, surfaces edge cases, and posts cleared credits to the ERP.
The engine is not the product. The recovery is the product. The engine exists so the firm can charge service-firm rates while delivering at platform scale, without giving up the written opinion behind every claim.
The Tax Desk
Qualified Chartered Accountants. Every disputed item, every edge case, every audit position routes through here.
TravelSuite
Eight modules covering airline and hotel GST end-to-end. Capture, reconcile, post, integrate. Built only to scale this firm.
What three years of specialist practice has produced.
The firm is honest about fit.
Indian enterprises with meaningful travel programmes.
- Large corporates and conglomerates with multiple entities, multi-state GSTINs, and travel volumes worth recovering.
- India-based GCCs of global parents running dual-ledger reporting across Indian and parent jurisdictions.
- Travel management companies looking to white-label recovery as part of their corporate-client offer.
- Consulting and advisory firms who refer travel tax work out as a specialised practice they don't run internally.
Small programmes, software-only, generalist tax.
- Travel programmes under ₹ 5 Cr in annual airline and hotel spend. The unit economics don't make sense for either side.
- Software licences without the firm. TravelSuite is not sold as a standalone tool. The engagement always includes the tax desk.
- General indirect tax work outside travel. We refer that out to firms whose practice covers the full surface.
- Engagements without an internal point of contact. Someone on your side has to be able to engage with our tax desk on disputed items.
Tell us about your travel programme.
We'll send the NDA the same day. The diagnostic is on us. From there, you decide whether the firm is the right fit for the work in front of you.