Pricing
Why there is no price list on this site
There is no price list on this site because 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 and a house sold mid-year. A published price would be wrong for one of them and usually both. Instead you get a fixed quote for your own situation before any work begins, and it does not move afterwards.
How the price is actually set
It follows the work: how many income sources there are, whether books have to be reconstructed, whether a return has to be defended as well as filed, and how much of it needs a chartered accountant rather than a tax consultant. Those are the things that make one engagement take an afternoon and another take three weeks.
We ask the two or three questions that decide it rather than sending a long form. Most of the time we can quote from a short description and a couple of follow-ups.
What fixed actually means
The quote is for the scope described in it. If the scope turns out to be different — a year of missing books nobody mentioned, a second GSTIN that did not come up — we say so before doing the work and requote, rather than doing it and invoicing more.
What does not happen is a price that grows because the work turned out to be normal. Normal is what the quote was for.
Why you cannot see prices before you ask
Because you would be reading somebody else's price. A headline figure attracts the simplest cases and then excludes yours in a footnote, which is how most published tax pricing works and why it is worth so little.
The trade is one conversation. In exchange you get a number that applies to your actual situation, which is the only number worth having.
What is never charged for
A first conversation, however long it takes to work out what you need. A quote. And a notice on a return we filed — thirty years of notice work is the reason the firm exists, and it is not a moment to hand you a fresh invoice.
One thing worth separating