
EPC and infrastructure firms reconcile every rupee of project cost to the right entity, steel, cement, labour, all of it. Travel GST is the line that doesn't, stranding credit in the seam between parent and SPV.
Because project structures multiply the ways a filing can land wrong, and mobilisation leaves no time to notice.
SPVs, JVs, consortiums, travel for a job should bill to that job's entity. In practice, bookings run through whoever's fastest, and the paperwork follows the wrong path from the first ticket.
When a site ramps up, dozens travel in weeks. Documentation discipline is the first casualty of a mobilisation push, and no one goes back to fix the paper after the pour.
GST filed to the parent when the SPV travelled, or the reverse, is credit neither entity can cleanly claim. It sits in the structural seam, invisible to both sides' reports.
One highway project. Travel booked through the parent; the job, and the claimable credit, belongs to the SPV. Watch what's sitting in the seam, and where it should go.
You already reconcile every rupee of project cost to the right job. Travel GST deserves the same disciplineand rarely gets it.
On a project P&L measured to the last rupee, credit stranded between your own entities is the strangest loss of allreal money, lost to nobody but the seam.
Book a free reconciliation review, one mobilisation quarter usually tells the story.