Would you go to
1. A doctor and dump on him all and any reports or show him what he has asked for
Why: It is a matter of your body and life
2. A lawyer and dump all the legal papers or show him exactly the document he needs to see
Why: He will save you in a suit
A Chartered Accountant is not youe enemy, but a Partner to Financial Management, to Tax Planning and adherence to law. He knows much more than a civic authority, any legal govt. department and he also is tech savvy enough to deal with the situtations that these website create. All this well within the given point in time, despite of the client being sick, unwell and or travelling for vacation or work.
It is not that part of the year that the CA is busy, he is busy 24 x 7, 365 days with non stop notifications, circulars, Rules and provisions in the Act. An old medicine will still work even if the doctor has not yet tested the new one in the market, but with a CA the immense ask from the Govt is frowned upon on a CA? Why, just because we look like their agent? or We are charging fees for the expertise we hold? Or may be you had a some bad experience with a CA but not a professional :(
Yes, each profession will have bad guy. But are all bad and do we need to judge all of them? Who are you to judge us?
Did you ever want to tell us after asking for an advise - please send your bill?
I have come to a conclusion - I will only do charity where I know there is a need! Possibly only financial need. Also, not bill those who are professional friends and are like my family.
This is not about invoicing, it is about commanding respect.
When was the last time you felt the urge of asking a question to the CA and you took an appointment and sent a list of queries. You just called, asked to do some R&D and that was it. You still went out asked couple of more people, read it up online, specially asked an AI tool and again rechecked.
Was it really necessary?
In short, before I go on and on, I wish to end the entire drama - You should share proper information, fully and completely, make sure it is clean, for the period what is asked for and not keep asking why the CA must not ask for what is being asked for.
Respect is all you need to give! Rest will be taken care of.
