Porwal, Basant

Basant is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 22 years of extensive experience of working in expatriate taxation and corporate income tax advisory, corporate tax compliances, and transfer pricing.

Basant has worked with PwC in the Direct Tax & Regulatory Team for over 8 years and has lead PwC Pune’s expatriate tax practice for 4 years.

Basant has experience of advising on structuring of inbound / outbound assignments, implementation of tax efficient deputation structure, tax effective compensation structuring, equity incentive plans, taxability of foreign salary & social security component in India amongst others.

Nagawat, Chinmay

Chinmay, a graduate from Mumbai University, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India and has over 16 years of rich experience in Transfer Pricing and International Taxation, Direct Taxes  - compliances, advisory and dispute resolution domain.

Chinmay has worked with EY, PwC and Chaturvedi & Shah and has advised several domestic and multinational companies in various industry segments including IT / ITeS, Automotive, Pharma, Shipping, EPC, Electronic Components, Consumer & Healthcare, Iron & Steel, Metal & Mining and Chemicals.

He specializes in handling Transfer Pricing (with proven expertise in litigation support) Direct Tax and select Foreign Trade matters and has to his credit conclusion of several complex TP matters in Appeal for clients in various industries.

Baldota, Vinay

Vinay is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India and has over 21 Years of experience in Audit and Tax Services.

Besides being an Audit Expert, Vinay specializes in Indirect tax (GST, Service tax and VAT) and Corporate Income Tax Advisory and Compliances and Litigation Support.

Vinay has worked with PwC and BDO and has handled clients in key industries such as Manufacturing, IT/ITES and Engineering sector.

Daweshar, Ashish

Ashish is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Bachelor of Commerce from Pune University.

Ashish has over 16 years of extensive experience in Corporate and International Taxation as well as FEMA related matters and had advised clients on critical issues and has represented before RBI and FIPB. 

He has worked with PwC and KPMG in the past and has advised several domestic and multinational companies in various industry segments including IT / ITeS, Automotive, Pharma, EPC, Consumer & Healthcare etc.

Besides domain expertise in FEMA and Taxation matters, Ashish is actively involved in complete GST lifecycle of clients since inception

Zanwar, Krishna

Krishna is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has over 16 years of post-qualification experience in Tax and Advisory Services. Prior to KPNB, Krishna was associated with EY Pune for more than 13 years in Tax and Regulatory Services.

Having been involved in the complete international tax lifecycle including Tax and Transfer Pricing Advisory, Global TP Documentation Projects, etc Krishna has served a large number of industries including Manufacturing, Electronics, Automobile, IT and ITeS,  etc. 

Krishna has also significant experience in representing several large multinational companies before Revenue and Appellate authorities in the course audit/ appeal proceedings. He has proven expertise in concluding various complex Advance Pricing Agreements and Mutual Agreement Procedures for both services as well as manufacturing clients.

Krishna is an active technical speaker at various tax conferences

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