Yes. You can run an independent practice doing GST filing, ITR filing, registrations, bookkeeping and advisory without a CA degree — only audit attestation requires a CA. The government’s GST Practitioner exam was last held in 2018, so no formal qualification is required to start. This course by CA Piyush Gupta teaches how to actually find and keep clients, which is the missing piece for most skilled but client-less accountants.

Start with people who already trust you — relatives, friends, classmates, neighbours and local shopkeepers — and offer one simple, needed service like GST or ITR filing. One paying client leads to a referral. The course gives the exact approach: building a target list of 1,000+ contacts and converting the first few into paying work.

Earnings depend on your services, rates and effort, so there’s no support. The practical model taught here is that around 20–25 retained clients handling monthly compliance and yearly filings can build toward a ₹25 lakh/year practice, in line with CA Piyush Gupta’s “Mission 50,000” goal of at least ₹50,000 a month. The course focuses on pricing and retention so income is steady, not one-off.

Without a CA degree you can charge for GST and ITR filing, business registrations, project/CMA reports, bookkeeping and tax advisory — the bulk of what small businesses need. The course teaches how to price each service for your market and bundle recurring work into monthly retainers, so you neither undercharge nor lose clients.