Ahmedabad returns tend to be more complicated than they look. A CG Road trader, a founder in Prahladnagar holding unlisted shares and an SG Highway employee trading equity on the side each need a different form, and picking the wrong one is what produces a defective return notice.
We regularly file from SG Highway, Prahladnagar, CG Road, Sindhi Market and Kalupur.
Anyone holding unlisted equity or a directorship cannot file ITR-1 — the law requires those holdings to be disclosed separately. Equity, mutual fund, property and intraday activity all have to be reported on the right head, with the gain computed rather than estimated.
For merchants around Sindhi Market, Kalupur and CG Road, section 44AD lets profit be declared at the prescribed presumptive rate, with a lower rate where receipts are digital. We reconcile the turnover you report against your GST filings before anything is submitted.
For employees in the IT parks and banking offices, the work is HRA, LTA, section 80C and 80D, and getting the TDS refund out without a query.
A technology professional had filed ITR-1 through an automated service, which left a large short-term capital gain from his equity trading entirely off the return. The transactions were already visible to the department through AIS, so a mismatch notice was effectively guaranteed.
We pulled his AIS and the SFT entries behind it, obtained the broker profit and loss statement, and refiled on ITR-2 with the capital gains computed correctly.
The return matched the department’s own data, and the mismatch notice that was heading his way did not arrive.
Anonymised, and described as it happened. Outcomes depend on your own facts — we will tell you what yours allow before we start.
A fixed ₹499, inclusive of GST, for a salaried or presumptive-business return. Nothing added afterwards. Roughly half what a Gujarat tax consultant commonly charges for a salaried return.
You can file your own return free of charge on the Income Tax Department portal at incometax.gov.in, with pre-filled data and free offline utilities. If your return is simple and you are comfortable doing it yourself, that route costs you nothing and we will say so plainly. People come to us when they want someone to check the figures and be accountable for getting it right.
Not necessarily. Where turnover is within the presumptive limit and almost all receipts and payments are digital, the higher threshold under section 44AD can apply and a statutory audit is not triggered. It depends on your actual figures, so we check the bank data before telling you either way.
Not ITR-1. Holding unlisted equity, or being a director, requires ITR-2 or ITR-3 with those holdings disclosed separately. Filing ITR-1 in that situation is the most common cause of a defective return notice we see.
Yes. The fee does not vary by city. It covers a salaried return on ITR-1 or a presumptive business return on ITR-4, inclusive of GST. Capital gains and detailed-accounts returns are quoted as one fixed figure before we start.