Tax Automation case study

    Automated register creation for claiming input tax credit (ITC) against airline invoices
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    Challenges of tax/finance function

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    • Large volume of around 50,000+ airline invoices required to be processed from a GST input tax credit claim perspective
    • Non-availability of standard purchase register containing GST for such travel/flight expenses for 2B based reconciled ITC claim
    • Manual collation and spreadsheet based GST data created from airline invoice copies manually
    • Tedious, time and resource consuming process with probability of manual data entry errors while collation
    • Flight Expenses/Airline Invoices GST input credit was taken basis only GSTR-2B data

    How our tech enabled managed services addressed the challenges?

    • RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology implemented to prepare GST relevant purchase register from 30+ different airline invoice pdf copies
    • Airline Invoices accessed via email/ file transfers in batches are auto-extracted and RPA applied thereon reducing manual intervention
    • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology applied for creation of purchase register in reduced time with GST input tax credit relevant details (more than 1,000 processed in less than ten minutes)
    • Output digital register customised for direct use in carrying out GSTR-2B reconciliation on GST compliance platform
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     Outcomes

    • Automation enabled elimination of manual, time-consuming and cumbersome repetitive activities of creating GST ITC claim register for Airline Expenses
    • Automated digital register was now made available for business to claim GST input credit and that too after reconciliation with GSTR-2B
    • Automation allowed the company to free up business time/resources and focus on other strategic areas.

    Key Contacts

    Sunil Badala

    Partner, Head of Tax

    KPMG in India

    Ajay Mehra

    Non-Executive Chairman

    KPMG in India

    Rahul Kashikar

    Partner, Head - Tax Technology and Transformation I Partner - Corporate International Tax

    KPMG in India

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