GST Return Filing — GSTR-1 & GSTR-3B, Filed On Time

What you’ll receive

• GSTR-1 filed every period, at invoice level
• GSTR-3B filed and reconciled against your GSTR-1
• Input tax credit matched against GSTR-2B
• An email reminder before every due date
• The filed acknowledgement and challan each period
• Annual return (GSTR-9) preparation when it falls due

GST filing due dates, and why the 20th matters more than the 11th

GSTR-1 is due on the 11th of the following month; GSTR-3B on the 20th. Under the QRMP scheme, turnover under ₹5 crore lets you file both quarterly while still paying tax monthly.

The 20th is the one to protect. Late GSTR-1 attracts a ₹50 daily fee that is capped and predictable. Late GSTR-3B attracts the same fee plus 18% annual interest on unpaid tax, which is uncapped and compounds on the outstanding amount until you actually pay.

GST return filing charges: what ₹599 and ₹1,299 actually buy

We split the price because our own cost splits. A nil return is minutes of work; a period with sales means invoice entry, credit reconciliation and a liability calculation.

• ₹599/month — periods with no sales. Nil GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B, filed on time.
• ₹1,299/month — periods with sales. Up to 50 invoices, full GSTR-2B reconciliation, liability computed and challan prepared.
• No lock-in either way. You move between the two rates automatically based on what you actually traded.

Goods and service tax return filing when you have no sales

A nil return is still a return. This is the single most common reason small businesses end up with an unexpected late-fee bill — the assumption that no trading means nothing to file.

Non-filing also compounds. Continued default can get your registration cancelled, and restoring a cancelled GSTIN is considerably more work than the nil returns would have been. If your business is dormant, filing nil at ₹599 is the cheapest form of insurance available to you.

Goods and services tax filing and the input tax credit you are probably losing

You can only claim credit on a purchase if the supplier has actually reported that invoice in their GSTR-1, which puts it into your GSTR-2B. If they have not filed, the credit does not exist for you — regardless of what your invoice says.

Reconciling GSTR-2B against your purchase register every period is the highest-value task in GST compliance and the one most commonly skipped. Credit not claimed within the statutory window is simply lost. It is included at the ₹1,299 rate because leaving it out would make the service pointless.

GST return filing online vs handing a folder to a local accountant

The work is identical; what differs is the feedback loop. A local accountant who takes your invoices at month end and returns a filed acknowledgement gives you no visibility into whether credit was claimed correctly or whether a supplier failed to file.

We send the reconciliation before we file, so mismatches surface while you can still chase the supplier. That is the only meaningful difference, and it only matters if you have purchases worth reconciling.

Switching your GST return filing service without inheriting someone else's mess

Changing providers is straightforward but worth doing carefully. We review your last few periods first — checking for unfiled returns, unpaid liability and unclaimed credit — and tell you what we find before taking over.

That review is free and occasionally ends with us telling you to stay where you are. If your current arrangement is working and priced sensibly, switching for its own sake gains you nothing.

Everything included

• Monthly or quarterly GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B
• Nil returns at the lower ₹599 rate
• Up to 50 invoices per period
• GSTR-2B reconciliation and credit mismatch flagging
• QRMP scheme advice and opt-in support
• Handover of clean records if you ever leave

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The honest bit about GST filing charges

You will find GST return filing advertised at ₹199. That price is generally for up to ten invoices with no reconciliation — the return gets submitted, but nobody checks whether your input tax credit actually matches GSTR-2B.

For a dormant registration filing nil returns, ₹199 is genuinely fine and we would not argue with it. For a trading business, unclaimed or wrongly claimed credit costs far more than the difference in fee. That is the whole case for paying more, and if it does not apply to you, it does not apply.