A small firm with a wide surface area
Ratnesh Thakur & Co. has practised from the same building on C.R. Avenue since 1990. Twelve service lines run through a team small enough that nobody is confined to one corner of one of them.
In a large firm you may spend three years on one part of an audit for one kind of client. Here you are more likely to take a company from incorporation through its first GST return, its first TDS filing and its first annual ROC submission — and to be in the room when the client asks why any of it matters.
The work is supervised. Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, tax consultants and legal advisers sit in the same office, and files are reviewed before they go anywhere. You will be given real responsibility, and you will not be left alone with it.
This page is for you if
- You have cleared the relevant ICAI stage and are looking for articleship
- You are semi-qualified and want exposure beyond a single department
- You are a qualified CA or CS who would rather be in practice than in industry
- You want client contact early, not after three years of schedules
- You are returning to practice after a break and want a real caseload
The roles we recruit for
For CA students who have cleared the stage ICAI requires before registration. Articleship here is deliberately broad: income tax and GST return preparation, TDS working, ROC filings, audit fieldwork, and attendance at assessments and departmental hearings alongside a senior.
We look for students who ask why a treatment was chosen rather than only how to repeat it. Tell us in your application which areas interest you — it affects where we start you.
For those who have completed articleship, or cleared one group, and want to keep working in practice. The work covers client accounting, GST reconciliation, TDS compliance, return preparation and drafting replies to routine notices.
Comfort with Tally or similar accounting software and with the income tax and GST portals is expected. Exposure to more than one client sector is an advantage.
For CAs who want a practice rather than a corporate finance function: assessments and appeals, tax planning, audit sign-off support, financial analysis and direct client advisory.
This is a role with client ownership. You will be the person a business owner calls, which suits people who like explaining as much as computing.
Secretarial and corporate law work: incorporations, annual ROC and MCA filings, event-based filings, statutory registers, board and general meeting documentation, and director KYC.
Suits qualified Company Secretaries and CS trainees looking for a firm where secretarial work is a practice area rather than an afterthought.
Day-to-day indirect and direct tax compliance: registrations and amendments, GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and annual returns, input tax credit reconciliation against GSTR-2B, TDS payments and quarterly returns, and Form 16 issuance.
Accuracy under a deadline matters more here than speed. Familiarity with the GST portal and the income tax e-filing system is expected.
Statutory and internal audit fieldwork, vouching and verification, preparation of working papers, ledger scrutiny and drafting audit observations.
You will visit client premises. Suits people who are methodical and don't mind asking the same question three times until the answer reconciles.
Not every role here is technical. Client coordination, document collection and tracking, appointment scheduling, portal correspondence and maintaining the compliance calendar are what keep the practice running to time.
Organised, courteous and comfortable following up with people who have not replied. Working knowledge of English, Hindi and Bengali is genuinely useful in this office.
How to apply
Send your application
Use the form at the bottom of this page and email your CV to info@rtctax.in. Tell us which area interests you and when you could start.
We read it
Every application is read by someone in the firm, not filtered by software. If there is nothing open that fits, we say so rather than leaving you waiting.
A conversation
An informal discussion about what you have done, what you want to learn, and what the work here actually involves. Ask us awkward questions; we would rather you did.
A practical assessment
For technical roles, a short exercise on the kind of work you would actually be doing — a reconciliation, a computation, a draft reply. Not a puzzle.
Offer and start
Terms confirmed in writing before you commit to anything, including what you will be working on for the first few months.
Why build a career here
Breadth, not a silo
Twelve service lines and a small team means exposure to registration, tax, GST, ROC, audit and advisory rather than one slice of one of them.
Supervised by qualified people
Chartered Accountants and Company Secretaries in the same room. Files are reviewed before they leave, and questions are answered by the person who signed off.
Client contact early
You will sit in on meetings and speak to clients. Explaining a position to a business owner teaches more than preparing it twice.
You see files end to end
Incorporation through to the first annual filing, or a notice through to its resolution. Few places let you follow a matter the whole way.
A practice that has lasted
Thirty-six years, through service tax, demonetisation and the entire GST transition. There is institutional memory here worth borrowing.
Central and easy to reach
C.R. Avenue, well served by metro and bus, in the middle of the commercial district rather than an hour outside it.
Common questions
Apply to the firm
Fill in the form and email your CV to info@rtctax.in with the same name in the subject line. Applications are read by someone in the firm.
- 35 C.R. Avenue, Kolkata 700012
- +91 98300 69332
- Mon–Sat, 9am–7pm
- info@rtctax.in