Tax
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024 : India
Band 4
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+91 124 4390 600About
Provided by JSA
JSA’s direct tax practice is primarily focused on providing M&A Tax and allied advisory services to its corporate clients. These include international tax advisory and corporate restructuring. Other areas of focus are tax policy advisory and litigation support at the Income Tax Appellate Authority level and higher Courts. The practice aims to expand in other areas geographically and have a pan India footprint in the next few years.
JSA’s indirect tax practice aims at advising clients on diverse Indirect tax issues pertaining to domestic and cross-border transactions and provide litigation support at all forums.
Every business, regardless of its scale, is impacted by levies such as Goods and Services Tax (“GST”) levied on the sale of goods, Customs duties on import of goods into India from a place outside India, etc. and other levies such as value-added tax, excise duty etc. on goods outside the ambit of GST. The indirect tax and duties regime is constantly reinventing and evolving in India, the practice area is full of opportunities and challenges for businesses and individuals.
Chambers Review
JSA offers a team with a wide range of experience providing advice on both direct and indirect tax issues ranging through transaction structuring, GST, customs law and SEZ tax law. The practice regularly assists corporate clients in a variety of sectors such as energy, pharmaceuticals, steel and technology with both domestic and cross-border matters. Among its clients are JSW Steel, MSD Pharmaceuticals and Rattan India Power.
Work Highlights
- JSA assisted CottonConnect South Asia with analysing its operations and agreements, advising the client on the classification of the services it proposed to provide in India in order to determine their taxability.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The support was very good as was the representation with the authority on legal points."
"They are tenacious in simplifying complex matters and finding solutions acceptable to the business."
"The support was very good as was the representation with the authority on legal points."
"They are tenacious in simplifying complex matters and finding solutions acceptable to the business."
Notable Practitioners
Manish Mishra co-heads the practice and heads the indirect tax practice from the firm's office in Delhi. Mishra is adept at providing advice on tax classification and GST, assisting with both cross-border and domestic matters.