Onsite–offshore rotations, client visits, delivery teams moving between centres, IT travel is high-volume, decentralised and continuous. Exactly the conditions in which airline GST quietly goes unclaimed, month after month.
The leak has the same root everywhere, invoices unmatched against filings, but in IT, it takes a particular shape: relentless volume, scattered booking, blurred entities.
Rotations, client workshops, delivery reviews, thousands of tickets a year, booked continuously across projects. No finance team can trace each invoice to each filing by hand at this pace, so most stop trying.
Projects book through different TMCs, portals and corporate cards. Each channel produces invoices its own way, and no single mailbox ever holds the complete set for a period.
Delivery centres, subsidiaries, SEZ units, a booking made for one entity is easily invoiced to another, and the airline's filing lands against a GSTIN that can't use the credit.
One onsite–offshore loop, turning the way yours does. Each pass produces an invoice, most match your GSTR-2B; some don't. The ones that don't are your credit, going quietly missing on a cycle that never stops to let anyone check.
We check every passbecause at rotation volume, "most" isn't a reconciliation.
At IT volumes, the question isn't whether credit is slipping, it's how much, and across how many projects.
Roughly 8% GST sits on every domestic air ticket, claimable as Input Tax Credit. At rotation volume, that's not a rounding lineit's a recurring recovery, waiting on a reconciliation that never happens by hand.
Book a free reconciliation review, we'll show you what the loop has been shedding.