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Work out your last working day, notice shortfall, buyout recovery and leave offset for an Indian notice period, plus a handover plan.
The Dev Notice Period Planner maps out an Indian notice period end to end: it computes your last working day from the resignation date, the buyout (notice recovery) for any shortfall at your contract's per-day salary rate, how far earned leave can offset that shortfall, and a dated four-phase handover schedule. It is built for developers and other IT professionals resigning in India, where notice length comes from the appointment letter — 30, 60 or 90 days in most IT contracts — and notice recovery attracts no GST per CBIC Circular 178/10/2022-GST.
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Enter your Resignation date, Contractual notice in days (30, 45, 60 or 90), Days you will actually serve, Earned leave balance, and your monthly basic, gross and CTC.
Set Recovery charged on to Basic salary, Gross monthly salary or Monthly CTC, choose Monthly ÷ 30 or Monthly ÷ 26 for the per-day rate, and tick the earned-leave offset box if HR allows it.
Read your last working day, the chargeable shortfall, the buyout with no GST, leave encashment and net full-and-final impact, plus the four-phase handover table, then press Copy plan.
Choose basic, gross or CTC as the recovery base and a ÷30 or ÷26 per-day divisor to match your appointment letter.
Shows leave days consumed against the shortfall versus days encashed on basic salary, and the net full-and-final impact.
Splits the served notice into document, shadow, reverse-shadow and buffer phases with actual calendar dates.
Shortfall days × per-day salary on the base named in your contract — most commonly basic salary divided by 30, so a 30-day shortfall on a Rs 60,000 basic costs about Rs 60,000. Some employers charge on gross or CTC and some divide by 26 working days instead, which is why the appointment letter is the deciding document.
No. CBIC Circular No. 178/10/2022-GST dated 3 August 2022 clarified that amounts an employer recovers for unserved notice are not consideration for a taxable supply, so no GST is added to the buyout. Employers who charged 18% GST on notice recovery before this circular were subsequently covered by favourable rulings.
Often yes, but it is a matter of company policy, not statutory right — many Indian IT employers let accumulated earned leave offset shortfall days one for one, while others pay it out separately as encashment on basic salary. Check the leave policy or ask HR in writing before counting on the offset.
The notice length in your appointment letter is a binding contractual term, but courts generally will not force an employee to keep working — the practical remedy is recovery of notice pay for the unserved days, and the employer can withhold the relieving letter until dues are settled. State Shops and Establishments Acts set only minimum notice (commonly 30 days), so consult a lawyer for a genuine dispute.