About the firm
Twenty-five years as a firm. Thirty years of experience behind it.
Pathak Associates is a tax and compliance practice in Ranchi, Jharkhand, founded in 2000 by Sanjay Pathak — a tax consultant with 30 years of experience who has personally handled more than 10,000 clients. The firm employs and partners with chartered accountants, and today files for clients across India without anyone visiting an office.
25
Years as a firm
30
Years of experience
15,000+
Clients served
4.9
Google rating
How the practice got here
Pathak Associates opened in 2000 in Ranchi, doing what every small tax practice did then — returns, books, and the long conversations that follow a departmental letter. Twenty-five years later the work is the same and almost nothing else is.
Filing moved online. GST arrived and rewrote compliance for every business with a turnover worth mentioning. Assessments went faceless, which meant a case could be decided by an officer the taxpayer would never meet, on the strength of what had been written down. Each of those changes made professional help matter more, not less.
What did not change is that most people do not want to file their own return. They want it filed correctly, by someone who will answer the phone when a notice arrives eighteen months later. That is the practice this is.
The one thing we deliberately moved was the office visit. Documents come in from a phone, questions are answered on WhatsApp, and the filing is done by the same people who have always done it. Clients across India work with us without ever seeing Ratu Road.
The founder
Sanjay Pathak
Sanjay Pathak has spent thirty years in tax practice and founded Pathak Associates in 2000. The firm is his proprietorship, and it grew the way practices in Ranchi actually grow — one filing at a time, on people telling other people that their return was handled properly.
He has personally handled more than 10,000 clients. A large share of that work is the part most people never plan for: income-tax notices, scrutiny assessments and appeals. A notice is not a form to be filled in. It is a position that has to be understood, documented and argued, and it is the work he is known for.
The firm employs and partners with chartered accountants, who carry out the work that requires a CA — audit, certification and the filings reserved to them. Pathak Associates itself is a tax consultancy, not a CA firm, and this page says so plainly because the difference is a regulated one.
Stated plainly
Timeline
What changed around the work, and what did not
- 12000
The practice opens in Ranchi
Sanjay Pathak founds Pathak Associates as a proprietorship in Ranchi, Jharkhand, after four years in tax practice.
- 22006Statutory
E-filing becomes compulsory for companies
The Income Tax Department makes electronic filing mandatory for companies and audited accounts. Preparing a return stops being a paper exercise and starts being a data one.
- 32017Statutory
GST replaces the indirect tax regime
Registration, monthly returns and input-credit matching arrive together on 1 July. Every business client needs a second compliance calendar, and the practice builds one.
- 42020Statutory
Faceless assessment begins
Scrutiny moves to a faceless system: no officer to meet, no hearing to attend, and a case that stands or falls on the written submission. Notice work becomes drafting work.
- 5—
A branch in Noida
A second office opens in Sector 62, Noida, for clients whose work sits in the Delhi NCR jurisdiction.
- 6Today
Assisted filing, end to end
The practice moves fully to assisted filing: the client sends documents from a phone, staff do the work, and progress is visible at every stage. More than 15,000 clients served since 2000.
How we work
Five commitments you can actually check
You never do the filing yourself
This is not software with a help desk. You send documents; our staff prepare and file the return. If something in your papers does not add up, you get a question from a person, not a validation error.
A named person handles your file
Every engagement is assigned to someone, and their name is on it in the portal. You are not calling a general line and explaining your situation again to whoever picks up.
The price is quoted before the work starts
We do not publish prices, because the honest price depends on what your return actually involves — a single Form 16 and a business with three GSTINs are not the same job. You get a fixed quote for your situation before anything begins, and it does not move afterwards.
A notice is included in the relationship, not a new sale
If a notice arrives on a return we filed, we deal with it. Thirty years of notice and scrutiny work is the reason the firm exists, and it is not a moment to hand you a fresh invoice.
Your documents stay private
Documents are stored encrypted in private storage, download links expire within minutes, and access is limited to the people working on your file. What that means in detail is on the security page.
Why there is no price list on this site
Two people asking for the same service rarely need the same work. One salaried return is a Form 16 and twenty minutes. Another has capital gains across two brokers, a house sold mid-year and a foreign asset to disclose. A published price is either wrong for the first person or wrong for the second, and usually both.
So we quote. You tell us what your situation involves, we tell you what it costs, and that number is fixed before any work starts. You see it inside your account, not on a page written for everybody.
What that means in practice: no headline price that turns out to exclude your case, no upgrade halfway through, and no bill that arrives larger than the estimate.
Where we work
The offices are in Ranchi and Noida, and the work is not limited to either. Filings are made under the jurisdiction your PAN and GSTIN already sit in, wherever that is in India — nothing about the process requires you to be nearby.
Head Office
302, Modi Heights, Ratu RoadRanchi, Jharkhand 834005
Branch Office
Tower-B, B1135, Block A, iThum, Sector 62Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201309
Who we file for
- Salaried employees and pensioners
- Freelancers and independent professionals
- Proprietors and partnership firms
- Private limited companies and LLPs
- Traders and e-commerce sellers
- NRIs with Indian income