TraCarta / The Recovery / Hotel GST
Recovery · Hotel

Every state.Every place of supply.

Hotel GST recovery is fundamentally a geography problem. The credit recoverability depends on where the hotel is, where the buying entity is registered, and how the invoice was raised. The firm's hotel desk works every state, every place-of-supply combination.

All states
28 states + 8 UTs covered
E-invoice
Direct from GST portal
Honest scope
Above-mandate properties only
Where hotel ITC actually lives

36 jurisdictions. One picture of your exposure.

Every Indian state and union territory has a different GST surface for your hotel spend. The firm reads your GSTIN footprint against where your travel actually goes, and surfaces three categories of exposure on a single map.

JKJ&K
01
LALadakh
38
HPHimachal
02
PBPunjab
03
UKUttarakhand
05
ARArunachal
12
HRHaryana
06
DLDelhi NCR
07
UPUttar Pradesh
09
SKSikkim
11
NLNagaland
13
RJRajasthan
08
MPMadhya Pradesh
23
CGChhattisgarh
22
BRBihar
10
ASAssam
18
MNManipur
14
MZMizoram
15
GJGujarat
24
MHMaharashtra
27
TGTelangana
36
OROdisha
21
JHJharkhand
20
WBWest Bengal
19
MLMeghalaya
17
TRTripura
16
GAGoa
30
KAKarnataka
29
TNTamil Nadu
33
APAndhra Pradesh
37
KLKerala
32
Registered · lit
Buying entity has a GSTIN in this state. ITC on hotel stays is fully recoverable.
POS edge · workaround
No GSTIN here, but POS-handling lets us route the claim through a registered entity or recover through alternative routes.
Unregistered · blocked
No GSTIN, no workaround. ITC on hotel stays here is structurally blocked. The firm flags it as advisory opportunity, not loss.
No travel
Your programme has no recorded hotel spend in this state.
What's in scope, what isn't

In scope. And openly out of scope.

The firm's hotel recovery line works on hotels under the GST e-invoice mandate. That's where the data is reliable. For hotels below the mandate threshold, the firm doesn't paper over what it can't see, the diagnostic surfaces those properties explicitly.

In scope · under mandate
Above-threshold hotelsProperties whose operator is subject to the e-invoice mandate.
~85%
of enterprise hotel spend, by value, the major chains, the corporate-rate properties, the four- and five-star inventory.

For every above-mandate stay, the firm retrieves the e-invoice directly from the GST portal using your registered GSTIN credentials. StayDoc syncs nightly, the captured invoice gets reconciled against your filings by StayLedger, and the recoverable credit posts to your ERP through AlignIQ. End-to-end automation; no client effort beyond providing the GSTIN list at intake.

Out of scope · below mandate
Below-threshold hotelsProperties whose operator falls below the mandate.
~15%
of enterprise hotel spend, by value, smaller chains, independent properties, boutique inventory.

These properties don't issue e-invoices via the GST portal. The recovery surface depends on the invoice physically reaching your finance team and being captured manually. The firm flags these in the diagnostic explicitly, the recovery map shows them by name, with a recommendation: either route bookings to in-scope properties where feasible, or accept the structural gap.

The honest line
The firm does not paper over what it can't see. If a property is below the mandate threshold, the recovery map will say so, by name, with the gap quantified. Hiding the scope to look like a bigger practice is not the firm's posture.
How the firm decides on a single hotel stay

Four questions. Four outcomes.

For every captured hotel invoice, the firm runs the same place-of-supply decision tree. Each branch leads to one of four outcomes, from clean recovery to structural block. The work is the same for one stay or for thirty thousand.

Q·1
Is the hotel operator under the e-invoice mandate?
Yes, proceed
No, below mandate
Q·2
Does the buying entity hold a GSTIN in the hotel's state?
Yes, in-state
No, cross-state
Q·3
Was the invoice raised against the correct GSTIN?
Yes, correct
No, wrong GSTIN
Outcome A
Clean recovery

In-state, correct GSTIN, e-invoice on portal. SkyLedger reconciles, tax desk clears, AlignIQ posts.

Outcome B
Recovery with workaround

Wrong-GSTIN invoice. Firm pursues credit note and re-invoicing with the hotel; typical 30-60 day cycle.

Outcome C
Cross-state, POS-handled

Cross-state stay where buying entity isn't registered locally. Tax desk takes a written POS position route by route.

Outcome D
Structurally out of reach

Below-mandate property, or no path to a registered entity. Flagged in the recovery map by name; advisory opportunity only.

Start with the diagnostic

See your hotel exposure on the map.

The diagnostic produces the state-by-state map for your programme, lit, edge, dim, with the recoverable, workaround, and out-of-reach values quantified by state.

Read about the diagnostic Back to The Recovery