Practice area · GST
One classification call or a blocked-credit misread can trigger years of demand and interest. Get the GST position with the exact section, rule and CBIC circular cited.
GST is India's destination-based tax on the supply of goods and services, governed by the CGST, SGST, IGST and UTGST Acts. AskSolique answers GST questions with the exact section, rule, notification or circular attached to every claim.
GST is high volume and high ambiguity - the one area where a confident wrong answer scales into every invoice, not just one.
Why GST is hard
GST is barely a few years old and already sits under thousands of notifications, rate changes, CBIC circulars and Advance Rulings that qualify the bare Act line by line. Classification turns on HSN and a chain of tariff notes; input tax credit is a maze of Sec 16 conditions and Sec 17(5) blocks that CBIC keeps clarifying; place-of-supply rules shift the tax between states. The statute alone rarely gives you the answer - the current position lives in a circular issued last month that most tools have never read.
What's broken in the way you work today
The section leaves a gap or an ambiguity that a CBIC circular narrows or clarifies within it. If your source is the Act alone, you are working from an incomplete reading, not the one CBIC currently applies.
Ask a chatbot for an HSN code or an ITC eligibility and it returns a fluent answer with a section number that may not say what it claims - and reads exactly like a correct one.
A wrong credit call is not a rounding error. It is reversed with interest, and repeated across periods it becomes a demand that dwarfs the fee on the advice.
The same recurring question - RCM on a service, credit on a facility - gets researched from scratch each time because last quarter's note is buried in someone's inbox.
What happens if nothing changes
GST demands compound. A mis-taken credit or a wrong classification is reversed with interest at 18%, exposed to penalty, and - because the same treatment repeats on every invoice - multiplied across every period until an officer picks it up, often years later during audit. By then the interest alone can exceed the original tax, and the advisor who signed the position is the one explaining it. Doing nothing means carrying that silent, growing exposure on positions you took confidently but never re-checked against the current circular.
What has to change
Stop reasoning from the bare Act and stop trusting an uncited paragraph. The GST position should arrive with the section, the governing CBIC circular and the relevant Advance Ruling together, from a corpus maintained as CBIC issues - and it should carry through to the customs and income-tax angles of the same transaction, because a supply rarely sits inside GST alone.
Genuine use cases
Real fact patterns from indirect-tax work. Each returns the position with the exact provision and circular attached.
GST DESK
The officer questions credit taken on employee health insurance. AskSolique surfaces the exact block under Sec 17(5)(b) and the exception that applies where the cover is statutorily obligatory - the reply is drafted before the call ends.
Cited to Sec 17(5)(b), CGST Act
FINANCE TEAM
Finance asks if GST applies. AskSolique pulls Schedule I and the CBIC clarification that nil taxable value applies to an unsecured corporate guarantee - no GST, and the note behind it.
Cited to Circular 204/16/2023-GST
COMPLIANCE
Place of supply for an unregistered consumer isn't obvious. AskSolique returns the OIDAR position under Sec 13(12) of the IGST Act and the proxies that decide it, ready before the return is filed.
Cited to Sec 13(12), IGST Act
Time saved goes straight to the judgment calls that need a partner, not a timesheet.
Classification and rate questions come back grounded in the tariff and the governing notification - not a plausible-looking guess.
Every ITC call surfaces the Sec 17(5) block or the enabling condition, so a wrong credit never quietly compounds into a demand.
Recurring questions are answered once, cited, and stay searchable - the team stops solving the same problem twice.
Every position traces to the exact section and circular - the kind of answer you can put in a reply to a notice and stand behind.
A quick check, a multi-part question, a full scenario - each comes back with the exact provision cited.
Can we claim ITC on employee group health insurance?
We import raw materials, manufacture goods, and sell partly to SEZ units and partly to domestic customers - walk me through the ITC eligibility, the place of supply, and whether the SEZ sales are zero-rated, with the section and circular for each leg.
Our client got a show-cause notice alleging wrongful ITC on rent-a-cab services used for staff transport over the past two years - draft the position on eligibility, the time limit under Sec 16(4), and the exposure if the department's view prevails.
Start free, bring a real matter, and see the answer come back cited to the exact source. No card, no demo call.