Tax Advisory

Our expertise for your benefit

Tax planning presents opportunities as well as challenges and complexities. With the constant changes in international as well as domestic frameworks, it becomes essential to tread carefully while devising tax strategies.

With combined experience, we have helped clients minimise tax exposure while easing their burden of ensuring proper compliance with tax legislation. Our focus is on keeping the client’s business objectives at the centre and providing them with innovative solutions.

Our services include advice on tax optimization of various transactions in regular course of business, fund raising, tax due diligence for acquisition, and disposal of assets or undertakings.

Direct Tax

Man created the State to govern society. The State levied taxes to run the government. Over time, taxation became more complex. Now, the struggle is to make it simpler.

Amid the challenging economic scenario and newfound initiative by the Government to improve tax environment, businesses need to pay close attention to tax challenges and rework their strategies. Effective tax structuring and planning ensures that organisations remain competitive in this complex business environment and at the same time manage their tax exposure.

While the laws are the same for all businesses, in many cases an in-depth and holistic understanding of the client’s business ethos is missing. We deliver risk-adjusted optimisation by providing simple and precise tax structuring advice. Our processes are time-tested and we do not operate in silos.

We are a group of highly skilled and motivated professionals with more than 120 man-years of experience, advising more than 300 clients – a mix of corporations and HNIs. The team combines its in-depth technical knowledge with appropriate domestic and global insights to help clients develop and execute tax strategies effectively.

Indirect Tax

The indirect tax structure is governed by frequent notifications, circulars, trade notices etc. and many a times conflicting with well-established judicial position. It is procedural and compliance driven law. Indirect Tax poses great challenge for most of the organizations.

Indirect taxes directly impact cost of goods and service, cash flow, profitability and ultimately stakeholder value. Any lapse in recovering tax at transaction stage would result in adverse commercial implications. It is imperative for business entities to examine its tax structures, undertake in-depth analysis of the tax costs and thrive for tax optimization. Precise documentation and compliance is must to be on the right side of the law.

The Goods and Service Tax (GST) introduced in July 2017 is radical tax reform. It has resulted in to comprehensive tax base and virtually all goods and services are taxable. While GST has been a game-changer, it has impacted the tax incidence, credit utilization, compliances and resulted into complete overhaul of the indirect tax system of business entities. We regularly assist Business entities revaluate their supply chain, contracts with customers/vendors and reset tax practices including compliance with E- Invoices, timely refund application and other fast evolving rules.

Qualitative support from experienced professionals go long way for tax optimization and healthy compliance.

With more than 100+ man years’ experience under its belt coupled with excellent technical knowledge, profound experience and philosophy to be co-custodian of clients’ tax matters, our team is able to successfully cater to scores of clients spread across diverse industries and business fields. Our team is specialized to support business entities to assess impact of GST on cash flow, profitability and overall business objectives. Out of box thinking coupled with our ability to identify and employ opportunities assists the clients in tax optimization whilst keeping litigation to minimum.

We believe that wisdom should prevail while structuring transaction so as to mitigate risk and avoid long drawn and never ending litigation. Knowledge and wisdom imparted by our senior partners are not only valued by our clients but are also valued by departmental authorities.