Taxes may be a significant cost for doing business and hence, upfront advice can help in attaining tax efficiency. Our professionals are guided by a single, strong underlying philosophy - ’helping our clients attain their business objectives‘. We endeavour to adopt a ’handholding approach ‘which encompasses various aspects of tax advisory.

Our key service offerings include:

• Advice on various domestic as well as international tax matters including cross-border transactions
• Advice from a tax perspective in respect of agreements to be entered into by various parties
• Advice on withholding tax obligations on payments to residents/non-residents
• Tax advisory for positions to be adopted in the tax return
• Advice on permanent establishment exposure and its tax impact
• Analyse and identify differences between the current tax computation and requirements of Income Computation and Disclosure Standards (ICDS). Assist in impact assessment of ICDS from a cash flow and disclosures perspective
• Analyse the impact of Place of Effective Management (POEM) rule for determining tax residential status of a foreign company/overseas group entity in India having regard to global management structure
• Analyse and advise on the tax treaty eligibility and provisions including Limitation on Benefits (LOB) provisions etc.
• Analyse the impact of General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) on domestic and cross-border transactions/structuring
• Review of operations and analyse the impact of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) measures
• Advise on repatriation strategies
• LLP set up/conversion strategies
• Advise on availing foreign tax credits in India or in overseas jurisdictions
• Review pending litigation and other uncertain tax positions, to comment on probability of success and prevention of recurrence (FIN 48)
• Carry out diagnostic health check analysis from a tax perspective
• Review of operations and analyse the impact of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) measures
• Advise on recent developments (e.g. Black Money Act, 2015, etc.)