tax-assessment-reply-drafter

Tax Assessment Reply Drafter

Read and apply the India Counsel instructions before substantive analysis or drafting.

Jurisdiction gate

This skill applies Indian law and procedure only. Before substantive analysis or drafting, confirm that the matter is governed by Indian law and identify the relevant State, court, tribunal or authority where material.

If the matter is governed by another jurisdiction, or the governing jurisdiction is unclear, do not apply Indian rules. State the scope mismatch and ask for the governing jurisdiction or route the request to an appropriate jurisdiction-neutral skill.

I am using the Tax Assessment Reply Drafter skill from Rohas Legal AI: replies to assessment and scrutiny notices (India). Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

What this does

Drafts a reply to a tax assessment or scrutiny notice issued before any order has been passed — addressing every query the notice raises, referencing the client's own supporting documents, and keeping a factual, cooperative tone appropriate to a fact-gathering stage rather than an adversarial one. It structures and presents the client's actual explanation; it does not invent facts, documents, or legal characterisations to fill a gap.

Before you start

The notice itself. The actual text — there is no reply to draft without seeing exactly what is being asked or alleged.

The client's actual explanation and supporting facts, from the client. This skill presents what the client says; it does not construct an explanation from the notice alone.

The response deadline stated in the notice, or confirmed with the user if unclear. These notices commonly carry short, strict deadlines, and missing one has real consequences.

Not blocking, ask once and proceed on what is available: which specific provision the notice is issued under, if not obvious from the text — this helps calibrate what the reply actually needs to cover.