TraCarta / The Recovery
The largest line of the firm's work

The Recovery. In four moves.

The firm's recovery practice covers the full surface of travel-related input tax credit , airline GST, hotel GST, and ITC reconciliation. One practice, three entry points, every claim cleared by the tax desk.

Diagnose · Extract · Opine · File
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How recovery actually works

Four moves. Done in order. No exceptions.

Every recovery engagement, airline, hotel, retroactive, continuous, runs the same four-stage flow. The engine handles the volume work. The tax desk handles the judgment. Nothing reaches your filings without both.

01 · Diagnose

See what's there.

Twelve months of travel data ingested. Reconciled against your filed GST returns. Every invoice traced, every claim status checked, every gap surfaced. The diagnostic stage answers a single question: how much input tax credit is your programme leaving on the table, and where.

Output Recovery map, a written document.
02 · Extract

Pull it cleanly.

For every recoverable credit identified, the engine retrieves the underlying invoice evidence, airline GST invoices from carrier portals via SkyDoc, hotel e-invoices from the GST network via StayDoc, the cancellation and reissue history that determines eligibility. Every document tagged, indexed, archived.

Output Evidence set, ready for tax desk review.
03 · Position

Clear every claim.

Disputed GSTINs, stretched ITC windows, hotel place-of-supply exposure, B2C-on-B2B errors. A qualified Chartered Accountant on the firm's tax desk takes a position on each. Nothing posts to your ledger without a partner-led position behind it.

Output Recovery position, cleared by the tax desk.
04 · File

Land it in the ledger.

Cleared credits are posted to your ERP through AlignIQ, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Fusion, NetSuite, Tally Prime, MS Dynamics. Each posting carries the audit trail back to the invoice, the opinion, and the approver. When scrutiny opens later, the answer is already on the page.

Output Posted ITC, defensible at audit.
The recovery practice

One practice. Three entry points. The same standard.

Most enterprises don't have a travel GST recovery problem they can name. They have an aggregate ITC leakage problem they cannot quantify, a slow, steady drift of input tax credit out of the company's ledger and into the tax authority's unmatched-claims account. The longer it goes unmeasured, the more of it crosses the T+180 window and stops being recoverable at all.

The firm's recovery practice exists to find that leakage, claim back what's recoverable, and prevent the next year's drift. It runs across three entry points, airline GST, hotel GST, and ITC reconciliation, because different programmes leak in different places. The diagnostic always covers all three.

The work is the firm's largest line. It is also where the firm originated , recovery is what TraCarta does first, and what the rest of the practice is structured around.

What the practice covers
Past-window
Retroactive recovery
Twelve months of past travel spend, audited and recovered against your filings. Where most engagements begin.
Continuous
Ongoing reconciliation
Monthly recovery as new invoices land. The engine ingests, the tax desk opines, the ledger stays clean.
Edge cases
Disputed positions
Place-of-supply ambiguity, cancellation credit eligibility, multi-state hotel exposure , the parts a generalist firm sends sideways.
When opened
Audit defence
When a claim the firm filed is later questioned, the firm defends it on the record. Every position is written down before it ships.
What sits underneath every claim

Every claim. A full evidence trail.

When a tax officer asks questions three years later, the answer isn't reconstruction, it's retrieval. Each ITC claim the firm posts to your ledger leaves an evidence trail behind it. Five layers, all attached to the claim, all retrievable in minutes.

01
The underlying invoice
Airline GST invoice from the carrier portal, or hotel e-invoice from the GST network. Retrieved at source, archived, indexed by GSTIN and date.
02
The reconciliation record
The match against your filed GSTR-2B, the gap classification, the recoverability decision. Time-stamped, version-controlled.
03
The tax desk position
The position taken on the claim, what was recovered, what was deferred, what was excluded, and on what basis. Partner-led, documented internally.
04
The posting record
The AlignIQ posting log: which GL account, which document number, which approver in your ERP. The ledger entry traces back to the invoice.
05
The narrative
A one-paragraph plain-English explanation of the claim, attached to the document record. If the officer reads only one thing, this is it.

The firm doesn't issue letterhead opinions or sign formal position papers. What it does leave behind is the working file, five layers of evidence per claim, retrievable in minutes, sufficient to answer most scrutiny questions on the page rather than off it.

The recovery practice in numbers

Eight years of focused practice. One single discipline.

₹ 300 Cr
of input tax credit recovered for clients across the practice's engagements to date.
30+
airlines and multiple hotel chains in coverage, major domestic carriers, Tier-1 international airlines, and large hotel groups.
21 days
typical first-recovery window, from signed engagement to cleared credits posted to your ERP.
Start with the diagnostic

See the leakage before you decide what to do.

The recovery diagnostic is on us. Twelve months of your data, audited against your filings, returned as a written recovery map. No fee, no engagement letter, no obligation to engage further.