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Legal & Indirect Tax
Specialist advisory across GST, Customs, and Central Excise — compliance, disputes, and structuring.
What’s included
How we work
Assess compliance position and exposure
Provide structuring and optimization guidance
Defend matters through adjudication and appeals
Maintain ongoing regulatory adherence
The detail
The indirect tax landscape — spanning GST, Customs, and Central Excise — requires specialist advisory for compliance, dispute management, and strategic structuring. Our team brings deep expertise in regulatory matters and a strong record of appellate representation.
We handle the full lifecycle: GST structuring, registration, returns management, and input tax credit optimization; Central Excise advisory, classification, and valuation matters; and a robust defense capability when disputes arise. Our representation spans show cause notice responses, adjudication proceedings, and appellate matters before Commissioner (Appeals), CESTAT, and the High Courts.
Beyond disputes, we advise on regulatory compliance frameworks, forensic investigations, and tax-efficient business structuring — giving clients precise, actionable guidance on a complex regulatory environment.
Our GST advisory practice covers the full lifecycle: transaction structuring and place-of-supply analysis, registrations, returns management, input tax credit optimization, and refunds. For groups operating across borders, we bring particular depth on the questions that generate the most exposure: cross-border supplies, reverse-charge mechanisms, intra-group arrangements, and valuation.
India-side execution runs through our partnership with R. K. Chari & Co., Chartered Accountants, an established Indian practice. Clients get international advisory judgment and on-the-ground compliance capability in one engagement. The goal is a coherent indirect tax position across the group rather than a patchwork of local fixes.
When disputes arise, we defend them end to end. Our litigation capability spans show cause notice responses, adjudication proceedings, and appellate representation before Commissioner (Appeals), CESTAT, and the High Courts, with a record built across GST, Customs, and Central Excise matters.
Our approach is strategic rather than reactive: we assess the merits honestly, quantify the exposure, and choose the forum and arguments accordingly. Many matters are best resolved early, through well-constructed replies and effective representation at the adjudication stage, and we design the defense to win at the earliest viable point rather than to prolong proceedings.
Prevention is cheaper than defense. Our regulatory compliance health checks review how indirect tax is determined, recorded, and reported across systems and processes, surfacing systemic errors while they are still small and recoverable. From there we build compliance frameworks and calendars that keep the position current as the business changes.
Where something has already gone wrong, our forensic investigation capability establishes the facts through transaction testing, documentation review, and fraud examination, then supports remediation and any resulting proceedings. And for organizations restructuring or expanding, we advise on tax-efficient business structuring that stands up to scrutiny.
Common questions
Both. We advise on structuring and complex positions, and, through our partnership with R. K. Chari & Co., support registrations, returns, input tax credit management, and refunds on the ground in India. Many clients combine an advisory relationship with ongoing compliance support.
Yes. Our team has substantial appellate experience before Commissioner (Appeals), CESTAT, and the High Courts across GST, Customs, and Central Excise matters, and manages the full proceeding: strategy, drafting, representation, and coordination with senior counsel where a matter warrants it.
Quickly and on the merits. We assess the notice's legal and factual basis, quantify the genuine exposure, preserve the evidence and documentation that the defense will rest on, and draft a reply designed to close the matter at adjudication where possible, while positioning the record for appeal if it isn't.
Yes. For groups spanning Europe, the Gulf, and South Asia we advise on the cross-border picture: UAE VAT, EU VAT interactions, and how supplies between group entities should be treated coherently. We coordinate with local specialists where a jurisdiction requires them.
A structured review of your transaction flows, tax determination logic, registrations, returns, and input tax credit position, typically over three to six weeks depending on complexity. You receive a quantified view of exposures and recoverable value, and a prioritized remediation plan.
Legal & Indirect Tax