Two pieces of paper come out of a corporate safari, and they are not the same document. One is the reserve's day-visit permit, naming your visitors, date, zone and shift. The other is the tax invoice of whoever sold you the vehicle, driver, guiding and coordination. Confusing them is the single most common paperwork failure in group travel, so this page separates them and lists what to collect — with no prices, no slab table and no tax advice anywhere in it.
Sources checked on 10 November 2026: the reserve's own tariff page, its day-visit booking page and its guest-login page; plus this site's own published pages, linked at the foot of this article.
Two documents, two purposes
The permit is the reserve's own instrument. It is produced by the published flow — date, zone, shift, visitor details with the group leader, payment, day-visit ticket, then print the permit — and it authorises exactly what its text names: those visitors, on that date, in that zone, in that shift. It is checked at a gate by the reserve's staff against the reserve's records. Nothing in it addresses a company, a cost centre or a reimbursement.
The tax invoice is a commercial document issued by whoever arranged your vehicle and services. Its purpose is the opposite: it records who was paid, by which registered entity, for which supplies, so your finance team can book the expense. A permit proves the safari exists; an invoice proves the payment does. One never substitutes for the other, and a corporate file needs both.
What the official portal provides
The permit itself, printed by you after payment, plus the tariff page's own published structure. That page sets out its columns as Zone, Entry India/SAARC, Entry Foreigner, Vehicle India/SAARC, Vehicle Foreigner, Driver, Online India/SAARC and Online Foreigner, and separately lists the camera and filming lines and a Ramganga Conducted Tour line. It also publishes GST bands by charge amount for those official charges — the slab table itself belongs to this site's ticket-price and GST guide rather than to this page, so it is linked below instead of reprinted.
What the public portal does not describe is just as important: no company invoice, no purchase order, no reimbursement letter and no operator service charge appears anywhere on the tariff or booking pages. If your finance team expects the supplier's name on the document, that document has to come from the operator, not from the portal.
What the reserve does not say
Three limits worth stating before anyone builds a policy on them. The reserve publishes no general cancellation or refund policy on these pages — only the late-arrival sentence, that arrivals after the last entry time may not be entertained and there will be no refund of fees deposited, so do not invent a cancellation schedule and ask the operator for its own terms in writing. The reserve also publishes no ban on agents or packages; the portal simply does not sell them, and this page claims neither that they are prohibited nor that they are endorsed. And the About page notes that the day-visit vehicle charge is quoted by the vehicle owner or driver depending on track length and conditions — a variable quote, which is exactly why the invoice line items matter.
What to collect from the operator
- A tax invoice carrying the operator's GSTIN, issued by the entity named in your quote, not by a different one.
- Line items split between the official permit component and the operator's own service charge, so the two can be checked separately.
- A copy of the printed permit with your own visitors, date, zone and shift on it.
- The payment receipt showing which account received the money.
- The cancellation terms as written before you paid, not as explained afterwards.
- The entity name that matches the bank details you are asked to pay.
For bookings through this site, our GST registration number is 05AZYPA9665L2ZH; ask for the invoice format your finance team needs before booking rather than requesting a rewrite later.
The reconciliation workflow
- Match the permit to the invoice: the same date, the same zone and the same shift on both documents, with the visitor names on the permit appearing in the invoice description.
- Split the amount: the official component against the reserve's published tariff, and the service component against what you agreed in the quote.
- Check the GST treatment shown on the invoice against the bands the tariff page publishes for official charges, and ask the operator about anything its own supply adds.
- File the set together: permit, invoice and payment receipt kept as one record, because the gate evidence and the finance evidence are different evidence.
Red flags in a corporate booking
- A payee entity that differs from the quoting entity — the invoice name and the bank account must be the same registered business.
- No GSTIN on the document, or a personal account presented as the only way to pay.
- No permit arriving with your own visitors named on it, whatever the receipt says.
- Pressure to pay before the invoice format is agreed, which is the moment your finance team loses its leverage.
- A screenshot offered instead of a document — a payment screen is not a permit and not an invoice.
What this page will not claim
Six abstentions, and the last is the important one. No price of any kind, because the tariff belongs to the live portal on the day you book. No GST slab table, because the existing ticket-price and GST post owns it and duplicating a published table invites drift. No claim that the reserve issues a GST invoice in a company's name. No claim that packages or agents are banned. No cancellation policy beyond the published late-arrival sentence. And no tax or legal advice: nothing here decides whether any amount is creditable to your business. Confirm your own company's reimbursement and tax treatment with its finance or tax adviser before you commit.
Where to read next
For the official charges and the GST bands behind them, the ticket price, vehicle and GST guide. For many people in one booking, the group bookings page. For the office and the contact details behind the portal, the booking office and official website page. For how money should move before anything is confirmed, the payments, deposits and receipts guide. For what a quote must list before you compare it, the quote inclusions and exclusions checklist. And for the permit flow itself, the official portal and process guide. The two companion pages are the Char Dham safari page and the Rajaji versus Dudhwa comparison. Sources checked 10 November 2026.
Rajaji safari invoices for corporate groups: questions answered
Does the Rajaji permit work as a GST invoice?
No. The day-visit permit is the reserve's entry ticket for a named date, zone and shift, produced by the published flow of date, zone, shift, visitor details, payment and print permit: https://rajajitigerreserve.uk.gov.in/jungle-safari-booking.aspx. It names visitors rather than a company, and it is not a tax invoice for a tour operator's vehicle, driver, guide or coordination. The official tariff page publishes GST bands for the reserve's own charges, but the public portal describes no company invoicing, purchase order or reimbursement letter: https://rajajitigerreserve.uk.gov.in/tariff.aspx.
What should a corporate group collect from the operator?
Ask for a tax invoice showing the operator's GSTIN, the line items split between the official permit charge and the operator's service charge, a copy of the printed permit with your own visitors on it, the payment receipt, the cancellation terms, and the entity name that matches the bank account you pay. Ask for the invoice format your finance team needs before booking rather than after it. For bookings through this site, our GST registration number is 05AZYPA9665L2ZH.
Can the official portal issue an invoice in the company's name?
Nothing on the public portal says so. The reserve's tariff page covers entry, vehicle, driver and online charges for its own zones and prints GST bands by charge amount, but it describes no company invoice, purchase order or reimbursement letter: https://rajajitigerreserve.uk.gov.in/tariff.aspx. The permit records the visitors, the date, the zone and the shift. If your finance team needs the supplier name on the document, settle that with whoever sells you the vehicle and guiding, and check what the portal itself can provide.
How do I reconcile the permit with the invoice?
Match the four fields that must agree: date, zone and shift on both documents, and the visitor names on the permit against the names in the invoice description. Then split the amount into the official component, which comes from the reserve's published tariff, and the operator's service component, and check each against what you agreed. Keep the printed permit, the payment receipt and the invoice together, because the published rules send late arrivals away without a refund and paperwork is what you reconcile later.
What are the red flags in a corporate safari invoice?
Five: a payee entity different from the one named in the quote; no GSTIN on the document; no permit arriving with your own visitors named on it; a request to pay a personal account instead of the company; and pressure to pay before the invoice format is agreed. None of these is fixed by a screenshot. Ask the operator before booking what invoice it will issue, confirm your own company's reimbursement requirements with your finance or tax adviser, and treat the permit as the evidence that the safari exists rather than as the invoice. Sources checked 10 November 2026.