We work with a small number of clients each year — direct tax, GST, audits, and structuring — with a long view, written advice, and a phone that actually rings on a Sunday when it must.
Each engagement begins with a written scope, a named partner-in-charge, and a timeline. No surprises in the invoice. None in the workpapers either.
Corporate and personal income tax planning. Capital gains and ESOP advisory. Transfer pricing for closely-held companies with cross-border subsidiaries. Representation before the AO and CIT(A).
GST registration and monthly filings, input credit reconciliations, refund claims, e-invoicing compliance, and litigation support before the Advance Ruling Authority and tribunals. Multi-state assignments accepted.
Statutory audit under the Companies Act, tax audit u/s 44AB, internal controls review, IndAS conversion, and special-purpose audits for fundraises and M&A diligence. Reports written for boards, not just auditors.
Holding-company structures for Indian operating businesses. M&A diligence (buy- and sell-side). Founder equity, ESOP, and sweat-equity design. FEMA compliance for outbound investments and NRI repatriations.
Annual ROC and MCA filings. Quarterly TDS returns. PF, ESI, and Professional Tax for in-house payrolls. We maintain the schedule so the finance team can do its actual job. A single dashboard, sent fortnightly.
Most of our engagements start the same way: a half-hour conversation, no obligation, conducted on a Friday afternoon over filter coffee. What follows below is the rest of the path.
30 minutes, on the phone or in our office. We listen first, talk briefly, and decide whether we're the right fit. No commitment.
Within five working days, you receive a proposal in writing. Scope, deliverables, fee, timeline, named partner-in-charge. Two pages, no riddles.
Work begins. Weekly written status if monthly retainer. Workpapers, recommendations, and risk register live in a shared vault you control.
Most relationships continue past the first engagement. We keep a long memory of your business so the next year of advice picks up where the last one left off.
Details adjusted to protect client privilege. Numbers are not.
Their previous consultant had failed to reconcile GSTR-2A across three financial years. We rebuilt the credit ledger from invoice level, filed a writ before the High Court for time-barred claims, and obtained an order within eight months. The client kept the original team. We were brought in as second opinion and stayed.
Designed a holding-company structure that keeps voting control with the founder for the next seven years while transferring economic ownership progressively to the daughters. Filed Sec. 56 valuation, drew up shareholder agreements, and coordinated with their long-standing law firm. The conversations were harder than the paperwork.
Cleaned five years of records, restated revenue accruals under IndAS, ran the data room, and surfaced three pre-emptive disclosures that prevented a downward valuation adjustment we estimated at ~12%. Closed in 11 weeks, less than half the founder's worst-case expectation. They still send a bottle of single malt every Diwali.
Indicative starting ranges. Final fee is agreed in writing before any work begins, and tied to the scope rather than to time spent.
Full compliance calendar — direct tax filings, GST, ROC, payroll statutory, board minutes. A dedicated partner you can call. A second one if the first is unreachable.
A single defined engagement — statutory audit, due-diligence, M&A advisory, GST refund litigation, ESOP design. Fixed fee. Fixed timeline. Fixed deliverable.
For founders, family principals, and CFOs who already have counsel but want a second view on a particular question. Bookable by the hour, with a written follow-up note.
Notes from the desk on changes in tax, audit, and structuring. Published quarterly. Free, but you have to ask.
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We engaged Vikram in 2018 for what was meant to be a small GST query. We are still with him in 2026, through a fundraise, two audits, and one acquisition. He is the rare adviser who writes things down before he speaks them, and who tells you in plain terms when you are wrong.
He took our father's 36-year-old factory through succession with my sister and me without breaking the marriage between any of us. The structure he designed will outlast the three of us. I cannot pay him what that is worth.
We accept a small number of new engagements each year. The first step is always the same — a 30-minute conversation, no obligation, no charge. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you so within that call and point you to someone who is.