PARTNERS
Sharad Goyal
Partner
- Sharad is a Chartered Accountant and founder partner of GSAP. He leads the corporate taxation, expatriate taxation and regulatory practices at GSAP.
- He has more than 15 years of experience in public accounting and consulting including 9 years with Deloitte India, and about 3 years’ secondment with Deloitte, Tokyo, Japan. During secondment to Tokyo he extensively worked with the Japanese companies investment in India with their tax issues.
- He actively assists clients with setting-up of business in India (wholly owned subsidiary company, liaison office, branch office and project office) with responsibilities like ensuring timely and effective tax and regulatory compliance management.
- On a regular basis, Sharad advises clients on domestic income-tax, international tax and regulatory matters like foreign direct investment regulations, issues under foreign exchange control regulations (FEMA), etc.
- As a litigation professional, Sharad has represented clients before various authorities from assessing officer level to tax tribunal and the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) in matters like tax audit proceedings, appellate proceedings, seeking tax exemption and relief.
- He has also assist clients with addressing and managing the challenges of home and host country tax compliance in relation to their globally mobile employee population. This particularly involves an in-depth research on the provisions of the relevant tax treaties.
- He has to his credit experience of setting-up India desk for Deloitte India at Tokyo.
- Sharad is also a qualified Insolvency Professional (IP).
Praveen Garg
Partner
- Praveen Garg is one of the founder partners of GSAP.
- He is a Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of experience in running a propriety CA concern based on principles of respect for integrity, hard work, dedication and commitment.
- At GSAP, Praveen leads the indirect tax practice. He also has considerable experience of bank audit, statutory, revenue, stock and concurrent audits, which he continues in GSAP as well.
- As an independent professional Praveen was involved in conducting statutory and internal audits, consolidation of accounts, review of overall accounting and compliance along with payroll management for private and public limited companies in diversified industries.
- His area of expertise also includes corporate and project financing and restructuring thereof.
- Praveen has extensive exposure in advising clients in the fields of service tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) and represented them before various service tax and VAT authorities for audit and appellate proceedings.
- On rollover of Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (GST) he has successfully advised/assisted clients for its smooth implementation.
- He also got hands on knowledge and experience of establishment, statutory compliance, accounting and taxation matters of liaison and branch office of foreign companies in India.
- Praveen is also a qualified Insolvency Professional (IP).
Amit Garg
Partner
- Amit is a Chartered Accountant with 5 years of post qualification experience.
- At GSAP Amit takes care of corporate taxation, audit and valuation assignments.
- He has contributed articles published in national and international journals.
- Being passionate about e-commerce industry, he advises them on how to launch products, increase sales and safeguard from online frauds.
ADVISORS
S. P. Singh
Mentor
S. P. Singh
Ex-Indian Revenue Services Transfer Pricing & Litigation SupportMentor
spsingh@gsapadvisors.com+91 9818 81 1178
- S. P. Singh (SP, as he is commonly known), is recognized as a leading expert of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing and is a leading Tax Controversy Management advisor in India.
- While working with the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) he participated in negotiation of tax treaties with more than 30 countries and took part in several Mutual Agreement Procedure negotiations. He represented India in several international conferences and presented papers.
- He was a member of the Expert Group on Transfer Pricing constituted by the Ministry of Finance. The report was used for formulating transfer pricing regulations in India.
- He has been recognised as leading Global Tax Litigation Expert for five years 2013 - 2018 and Global Transfer Pricing Expert for 2013-2016 by International Taxation Review.
- He has co-authored two books on Transfer Pricing and writes regularly for international and national tax journals and newspapers.
- While in Deloitte, SP lead APA Negotiation team and tax litigation practice. He has successfully argued several landmark decisions by Authority for Advance Rulings and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. He achieved several landmarks in the areas of filing applications and successfully concluding APAs.
- He is a Master of Science (Physics) form Ranchi University, India and MSc (Fiscal Studies), Bath University, UK.
LEADERS
Kiran Gupta
Manager – Compliance Services
- Kiran Gupta is a Company Secretary with more than 3 years of combined experience in Industry and CS Practice Firm.
- Kiran specializes in corporate law matters and corporate restructuring. In her professional experience, she has advised and assisted companies in various compliance practices like corporate law, litigation, secretarial compliances and audit, due diligences, XBRL filings, trademark, regulatory matters (like FEMA, SEBI), mergers and acquisitions, valuation services relating to financial instruments and valuation of undertaking.
- Kiran is well versed in liaisoning with various Governments and Non Government authorities and agencies such as Registrar of Companies (ROC), Regional Directors (RD), Stock Holding Department (SHCIL), Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), etc. She has also experience in assisting litigation matters before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), High Courts.
- Her clients includes Sole Proprietorship Firms, Partnership Firms, Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), Public Companies, Private Companies, One Person Companies (OPC), Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFC), Foreign Companies (including their Branch Offices, Liaison Offices and Project Offices), Non Governmental Organization (NGO) i.e. Society, Trust, Section 8 Companies.