Mr. Ashwani Taneja is the flag bearer of the team and has honed his legal and commercial skills while practicing as a Chartered Accountant and a Lawyer and thereafter serving as a former Member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Ministry of Law & Justice, Government of India and thereafter again practising as a Lawyer and thus has gathered wisdom & experience being on either side of the aisle.
Mr. Taneja embellished his academic profile with professional degrees as a Lawyer, Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary, Cost & Management Accountant and holds a Diploma in DISA. Mr. Taneja is in his prime and has to his credit more than 25 years of rich experience and combined with a global perspective his counsel, is valued across all spectrums.
His range is diverse and when coupled with areas of specialisation makes it an attractive and irresistible combination which holds him in good stead when rendering advisory for transactions and setting up or restructuring of businesses or representing matters before all the judicial and quasi-judicial forums such as Appellate Commissioners, Adjudicating Authorities, Appellate Tribunals, High Courts and Supreme Court in economic offences domains viz. Anti-Money Laundering Laws (PMLA), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), Benami Law, Black Money Act, Foreign Exchange Money Act, 1999, Tax Laws, Corporate Laws and allied laws.
He commenced his practice soon after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant during the first decade of his professional career in the fields of Tax Planning, Litigation, Business Advisory, Due Diligence and Audits of business enterprises.
After a decade he transitioned seamlessly in to legal advocacy in the year 2006 and practised as Lawyer appearing before Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, High Courts and Supreme Court of India until 2015 when he was selected and elevated to be a Member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal where in the two years he authored / co-authored more than 2000 judgements dealing with diverse issues of Domestic as well as International Taxation for all kinds of taxpayers.
In 2017 Mr. Taneja returned to the profession of advocacy and resumed his practice as a lawyer, with specific focus on the entire spectrum of economic and commercial laws.
Mr. Taneja is a prolific speaker and has delivered numerous lectures and held deliberations at various forums across the country on Income Tax matters, PMLA Law, Benami Law and other allied Corporate Laws and their interplay. He has also been regularly invited and participated on TV debates expounding his views on matters of national significance such as Analysis of the Union Budgets and in the areas of policy making and administration of economic laws.
Mr. Taneja has extensively travelled, both within the country and abroad, and has on invitation attended a Conference on International Tax held under the aegis of the UN Model Tax Convention at United Nation’s Head Quarters at New York, USA. He was also invited by Chief Justice of Tax Court of Canada and recommended for membership to International Association of Tax Judges, Canada (IATJ) and became member of IATJ in the year 2017 and actively participated in their Global Tax Conference held at Helsinki (Finland).
