80 TAXATION AWARDS 2021 ASIA | INDIA INDIRECT TAX ADVISER OF THE YEAR RAVI RAGHAVAN Senior Partner Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys ravi.raghavan@lakshmisri.com www.lakshmisri.com ABOUT RAVI RAGHAVAN Ravi currently heads the Indirect Tax practice of the firm at Bangalore and Kolkata. Ravi has been handling the indirect tax vertical within the firm during the past 18 years. Ravi has been assisting clients on all aspects of indirect tax and allied laws ensuring that the solutions are sound from legal and accounting perspectives. He has been handling advisory and litigation matters in indirect taxation during his tenure with the firm. His rich exposure to issues of manufacturers, traders and service providers particularly in iron and steel, automobile, textile, petroleum, FMCG, electronic, banking & finance, energy, information technology, e-commerce sectors enables him to provide practical and holistic solutions, which are tax efficient. He assists clients with advisory work to ensure compliance of the indirect tax law and has been instrumental in hand holding major clients on the implementation of the Goods & Services Tax law. Ravi with his rich experience and presence also represents the clients before various quasi-judicial and judicial bodies including Commissioners, Tribunal, Advance Ruling Authority, Settlement Commission and High Courts. His presence before authorities in various States gives has given him wide recognition by the Courts and also given him upto date knowledge on the latest in the indirect tax law. He has expertise in handling complex indirect tax issues involving classification, valuation, input tax credit eligibility, etc. both as part of litigation and advisory practise involving multinational companies, large domestic companies including all the major Public Sector companies. RAVI RAGHAVAN
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