Welcome to Arvitta

If you’re reading this, you’re likely a CA — or someone curious about an AI tool that promises to draft tax notice replies in 60 seconds. This post is the short version of why Arvitta exists and what’s coming.

The problem

A practising CA in India handles dozens of tax notices a month. Each takes 1-4 hours to draft properly:

• Reading the notice carefully
• Looking up the relevant section, rule, or circular
• Finding analogous case law
• Writing a structured reply
• Formatting it for filing

Multiply that by a small firm with five partners and you have weeks of billable-but-unbillable work every month. Most of it is pattern-matching. A 143(1) intimation is a 143(1) intimation. A GST DRC-01 has a familiar structure. The variables change; the template doesn’t.

Why generic AI doesn’t work

You can paste a notice into ChatGPT and ask for a reply. It’ll write something that sounds good. But it’ll often:

• Cite the wrong section (or invent one)
• Reference case laws that don’t exist
• Use US tax terminology
• Miss procedural defences specific to Indian practice (e.g., reasonable cause under Section 273B)

For internal drafting that’s fine. For something you’ll file with the GST officer, it’s a liability.

What Arvitta does differently

Arvitta is built around Indian tax law specifically:

• Tier-aware: classifies every notice as Tier 1 (auto-reply), Tier 2 (need client docs), or Tier 3 (legal submission). Different output for each.
• Real citations: drafts cite actual sections from CGST Act 2017, Income-tax Act 1961, etc. — not invented references.
• Case-law RAG: Tier 3 submissions pull from a curated database of real Supreme Court, High Court, and Tribunal rulings. If a relevant case exists, it’s cited. If not, the AI says so rather than fabricating one.
• Editable, exportable: every section is editable. Click “regenerate” and type “make this more assertive” — only that section changes.

What’s next

We’re in early access. The first cohort of CAs is using it free to give us feedback. Over the next few months I’ll write more posts here covering specific notice types — how to think about a 143(3) order, what to include in a GST audit reply, when Section 154 rectification is the right path. Each will be both a guide for CAs and a window into how Arvitta handles them.

If you want to try it: sign up free. No credit card. 2 notices per month on the free plan, no time limit.

If you have a specific notice type you’d like covered: get in touch.