Your company is profitable and growing. You have a CA or an accounts team. But something still feels off — taxes are high, notices keep arriving, expansion hits compliance friction. And somewhere in the back of your mind you know a competitor of similar size pays significantly less in taxes. You just do not know why. And your current CA has never raised it.
“When I do a tax structure audit on a company doing ₹50 crore plus, I almost always find 8 to 12 percentage points of unnecessary effective tax. Not because the existing CA was incompetent — but because nobody stepped back and looked at the whole picture. A holding company + subsidiary structure is not aggressive tax planning. It is standard corporate structure. Every large company in India uses it. Most mid-size companies have simply never been told it applies to them.”
We start with a full tax structure audit — your entity structure, inter-entity transactions, effective tax rate and GST compliance history. We show you the gap in writing. Then we implement: restructuring where appropriate, notice pattern elimination, multi-state compliance mapping, and ongoing quarterly strategy reviews.
A ₹200 crore revenue manufacturing business operating as a single Pvt Ltd entity with an effective tax rate of 28%. Getting 4–5 GST notices every quarter for 2 years. Each notice was being handled and closed independently. The CFO knew the tax rate felt high but had never had a structured review. The notices were treated as normal business friction.
Tax structure: A holding + operating entity structure with proper documentation would bring the effective rate to 16%, saving ₹24 lakh annually — legally, permanently. GST notices: All 20+ notices over 2 years traced to one root cause — ITC claims against 14 suppliers who had stopped filing their own returns. Nobody had identified this pattern. Each notice was a symptom; the suppliers were the disease.
One: What is our current effective tax rate — and what would it be under a holding + subsidiary structure?
Two: Can you show me a 24-month GST audit identifying our notice patterns and their root cause?
Three: Do we have current transfer pricing documentation for all inter-entity transactions?
These are not aggressive questions. They are standard tax management questions that any senior financial advisor should be able to answer in one meeting. If your CA cannot answer all three — or does not know why they matter — that tells you something important.
“What I remember most about this engagement is that Rakesh's existing CA was competent and responsive. The structure audit was simply never done — not out of negligence, but because nobody asked for it. In my experience, most companies that are overpaying tax have an existing CA who files correctly. The problem is not competence. It is the scope of the conversation.”