GST software in Assam

What Assam-specific compliance looks like

Assam's GST is administered by the Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Assam, and supplies inside the state attract CGST + Assam SGST. Multi-GSTIN is common for the Guwahati distribution houses and tea groups holding separate registrations for estates and trading arms — each needs its own GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and input-tax-credit ledger. HelloBooks ships multi-GSTIN per entity, so an Assam group files every registration from one login, and inter-branch stock transfers raise on delivery challans that reconcile back to e-way bills.

Assam levies a profession tax under the Assam Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Taxation Act. Employers register, deduct PT from salaries at the state slabs, and file the periodic return. HelloBooks runs Assam PT withholding inside payroll, generates the challan, and tracks the due date so the late-filing penalty doesn't compound silently — alongside PF, ESIC and salary TDS.

E-invoice, e-way bills, and North-East distribution in one pass

Any Assam business above the ₹5 crore threshold is on mandatory e-invoicing — HelloBooks generates the IRN and signed QR on NIC in the background and surfaces failures on the invoice itself. Because Guwahati feeds onward distribution into Meghalaya, Arunachal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, e-way-bill handling on both inbound and onward consignments matters; the same invoice record carries the e-way bill, with validity derived from the route, and dispatch can extend or cancel from the mobile app.

For GSTR-1 the place-of-supply mix is gateway-led: a Guwahati distributor selling onward into Meghalaya shows IGST under POS Meghalaya, a tea estate billing a Kolkata auction house shows IGST under POS West Bengal, and an intra-Assam supply shows CGST + Assam-SGST. HelloBooks derives place-of-supply from the buyer's GSTIN, picks the correct tax head, reflects the split on GSTR-3B Table 3.1, and runs nightly 2A/2B reconciliation.

Built for Assam tea, oil, plywood and gateway trade

Assam's economy spans the tea estates of the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys; oil, gas and refining around Digboi, Duliajan and Numaligarh; plywood and timber; and Guwahati's role as the wholesale and distribution gateway to the North-East. HelloBooks supports the mix on one platform: lot- and grade-based inventory for tea, batch tracking for processed goods, multi-warehouse distribution stock for the gateway trade, and capital-goods ITC with Rule 42/43 reversals for refining and processing units. India payroll runs end-to-end with PF, ESIC, gratuity and Assam profession tax, and Tally voucher sync is built in for firms keeping a parallel Tally book.

Cash flow forecasting for Assam businesses

A tea estate carrying a season's crop to auction and a Guwahati distributor financing stock for the North-East face the same gap — costs land upfront, but realisation lags. Meanwhile GST settles on the 20th, TDS deposits land by the 7th, and Assam profession tax clears periodically. HelloBooks cash flow forecasting reads AR ageing, recurring revenue and vendor bills, applies driver-based assumptions (auction realisation, collection lag, distribution terms), and projects a 13-week and 12-month cash position so an Assam business sees when GST and supplier outflows force the next working-capital draw. Best/base/worst branches model a weak auction or a slow distribution season — the same model a CFO would build in Excel, but linked live to the books.