OUR PRACTICE
The growing weight of indirect taxation is heightening the operational and compliance challenges, and such change comes quite frequently and can be confusing at times. International trade is growing in complexity and there’s a greater focus on indirect taxation in an increasingly digitised global economy. Your organisation may be asking “what does this mean for our business?”, “how can we stay ahead of implementation and can structure our business in a tax efficient way?” and “how can we be sure we’re fully compliant?”. At AQUILAW, we understand this fast-evolving environment and our experience, expertise, dedication, and a client-centric approach of developing tailored solutions will help to meet these challenges and address these concerns.
Indirect taxes including GST, Customs and Foreign Trade Policy are becoming more prominent and demanding. Governments are increasingly looking at Indirect tax as a source of revenue and overhauling how it’s reported and collected - with real-time reporting and e-invoicing to improve compliance and reduce fraud.
We recognize that each client is unique, and we take a personalized approach to address their specific challenges and opportunities, regardless of geographical boundaries. Our team of experienced Chartered Accountants, Lawyers specializes in providing end-to-end indirect tax support and solutions across a wide spectrum of GST Impact Analysis, GST Structuring, Transition related provisions, Constitutional matters, designing Business Process Mapping and Blueprints, VAT/Sales tax, Service Tax, Customs Duty, Excise Duty and matters relating to foreign trade policy and handling GST/indirect tax litigations across the country before different forums.
Our Service Offerings
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Help to reduce costs and risks, make the business more efficient, and turn tax opportunities into real results.
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Support businesses to make their voice heard by the national indirect tax policy stakeholders so the businesses can play a part in shaping more effective law and more efficient administrative processes.
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GST/customs advisory
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GST compliance assistance
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Indirect tax health check
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Complete Assistance in investigations / tax dispute across all forums
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Retainership
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Customs and foreign trade policy assistance
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EPC structuring
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GST credit analysis
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GCC VAT Advisory
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GCC VAT Compliance
Key Clients
Notable Deals
Assisted Ropeway Association of India in providing end to end comprehensive advocacy services before the GST Council, which resulted in reducing the GST rate for ropeway services from 18% to 5% and also allowing GST credit on services.
Assisted Exide industries Limited before the VAT Authorities to obtain favourable order dropping major demands.
Represented SENCO Gold Limited before the CESTAT to obtain favourable order dropping the entire excise duty demand including personal penalty imposed upon one of the key managerial person.
Assisted a major FMCG company in structuring their tax policies and helped them to reduce the tax cost drastically.
Undertook GST review of a major hospitality chain and identified areas for improvement and implemented strategic re-structuring measures to enhance efficiency and compliance.