Can my company claim input credit on a projector or audio system for the office?

Office and commercial installs are the textbook case for input credit, so yes, typically, subject to GST rules and your CA's confirmation.

Conference rooms, boardroom displays, showroom and retail audio, restaurant and hospitality sound, studio monitoring, training rooms, auditoriums, a demonstration theatre in a builder's sales office: all of these are business use on the company's books, and the 18% GST component inside the price is the kind of tax the input-credit mechanism exists for. On a multi-lakh install that is serious money, and it is money most companies leave on the table because the person ordering the projector never told the person doing the accounts.

What makes it work. Buy on the company's GSTIN, not a director's personal name. Get a proper tax invoice with both GSTINs, itemised products, taxable value and GST shown separately. Book the equipment as a business asset. And buy from a seller who actually deposits the tax, so the credit reflects in your return; an invoice that never appears in your GSTR-2B is a receipt, not a credit.

What I would flag before you assume the full amount. Blocked-credit rules exist for some categories, and mixed-use situations (equipment that lives partly in the office and partly at home) get complicated. Capital goods have their own treatment. None of that is a reason not to claim; it is a reason to let your CA look at the invoice before you count the saving.

Does the credit change what you should buy? A little. Once the real cost is the pre-tax figure, the gap between an adequate conference system and a properly specified one narrows, and I would rather you spend the difference on speech intelligibility than on a slightly larger screen. Fewer people repeating themselves in the boardroom is a return on investment nobody measures but everyone notices.

Tell us it is a business purchase up front. We quote and invoice on the company's GSTIN from the start, itemised the way accountants like it, and we can talk to your CA directly if they want documents. Final eligibility on your specific purchase remains their call.