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A ca_rakesh1987@gmail.com address on an engagement letter or audit report quietly costs you the corporate work. Own-domain mail reads like a firm, not a freelancer.
Practising chartered accountants across India handle client financials, statutory filings and regulator correspondence entirely over email — and a gmail.com address undercuts every bit of that. HavitoMail gives your firm proper mailboxes on your own domain, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up correctly, at ₹149/month flat for the whole practice.
Kochi practice is unusually international for a mid-sized city. Marine exporters shipping shrimp and fish from Willingdon Island need drawback, RoDTEP, e-BRC realisation against shipping bills and pre-shipment credit accounting, plus quality-certification costs that buyers audit. Spice traders bring commodity stock valuation and forward-contract questions. The defining local layer, though, is NRI work: Gulf-based Keralite clients need residential status determined under the amended day-count rules, DTAA relief and tax residency certificates, Section 195 and Form 15CA/CB on remittances, repatriation of sale proceeds from inherited property out of NRO accounts within the annual limit, and FEMA compliance on inward investment into family firms and land. Infopark clients add export-of-services refunds. Kerala's co-operative banks and the state's many charitable and religious trusts, with their own audit expectations, round out a distinctly local mix.
Kochi has been a spice port for centuries and still is — Kerala’s pepper, cardamom and marine export trade runs through the city and Willingdon Island. Infopark at Kakkanad has added a substantial IT and services workforce, the Cochin Port and the Vallarpadam transhipment terminal handle shipping, and Fort Kochi anchors a steady tourism economy.
Kochi is one of India’s principal centres for spice trading and marine product exports, and Cochin Port hosts the International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vallarpadam. Infopark Kochi is Kerala’s largest IT park by employment.
For the profession-wide picture — how ca firms across India handle enquiry intake, document exchange, and record retention over email — see our guide for ca firms.
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A ca_rakesh1987@gmail.com address on an engagement letter or audit report quietly costs you the corporate work. Own-domain mail reads like a firm, not a freelancer.
When an article assistant completes training and takes their Gmail login with them, three years of client threads go too. Firm-owned mailboxes stay with the firm.
Google Workspace at roughly ₹136 per user per month punishes you for hiring seasonal staff. HavitoMail is ₹149/month flat for up to 20 mailboxes.
Yes. HavitoMail serves ca firms across Kochi and the rest of Kerala, including Infopark Kakkanad, Willingdon Island, MG Road Ernakulam, Kalamassery, Fort Kochi. Connect the domain you already own — .in, .co.in, or .com — and your team is on professional email within 30 minutes.
Not in a free consumer inbox that also carries the assistant's personal mail. Mailboxes on your own domain keep NRI files under the firm's control, with no ad-scanning of documents that identify a client's overseas assets. An nri@ alias also means a client twelve time zones away reaches whoever is at the desk.
Yes. You can create filings@yourfirm.in as a shared mailbox or as an alias that delivers to several partners and article assistants at once. Most firms use it as the registered address on the GST and income-tax portals so notices are never stuck in one person’s inbox.
Up to 20 mailboxes and 10GB of storage on the Pro plan, at a flat ₹149/month or ₹1,499/year — not per user. A four-partner firm that adds six articles in audit season pays exactly the same as it did in April.
Google Workspace Business Starter runs about ₹136 per user per month, so a six-person ca firm in Kochi pays roughly ₹816 every month. HavitoMail Pro is a flat ₹149/month covering up to 20 mailboxes — the saving compounds every year with no per-seat renegotiation.
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