A notice is a deadline before it is anything else.
What you do in the first two weeks — what you concede, what you produce, how you characterise the transaction — usually decides how the matter ends, long before it reaches an appellate forum. We take the file from the day the notice arrives.
- Response to departmental enquiries, scrutiny notices and information requisitions
- Departmental audit support — record preparation, walkthroughs, query response
- Show-cause notices: reply drafting, evidence assembly and personal hearing preparation
- Appeals before appellate authorities and tribunals
- Rectification, refund follow-up and recovery proceedings
- Review of an existing matter for a second opinion before an appeal is filed
Four steps, in this order.
Read the file before answering it.
We reconstruct the underlying transaction from the records, not from the notice’s characterisation of it. Notices are frequently drafted from a partial view of the facts.
Decide the position, then write it once.
The position taken in the first reply is the position you are stuck with. We settle it before we file, and we keep the reasoning on record.
Prepare for the hearing, not just the paperwork.
Documentation is assembled and indexed to the argument being made, so that the person appearing can put their hand on the page.
Tell you where you are.
Including when the position is weak. You are entitled to know the realistic range of outcomes before you spend on an appeal.
Representation before the authorities and appellate forums is conducted by the legally qualified members of the firm, supported by the technical and documentation work of the wider team.