Role Purpose: The Head of Tax will lead and manage the companys direct tax strategy, compliance, litigation, and advisory functions. The role ensures full statutory compliance, tax efficiency, risk mitigation, and alignment with business objectives in a complex and evolving regulatory setting.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Tax Strategy, Planning and Optimisation
- Develop and implement tax-efficient structures aligned with business growth, mergers, expansions, and restructuring.
- Provide high-level advice to senior management (CEO, CFO, Board) on the tax implications of major business decisions, such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital structuring.
- Transfer Pricing (TP): Oversee all cross-border and inter-company transactions, ensuring TP documentation (including Master File and Local File) is prepared and filed accurately to comply with Indian and OECD BEPS regulations.
- Monitor changes in tax laws (Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, etc.) and assess impact on the business.

2. Direct Taxation
- Ensure Income Tax compliance, including computation,



ensuring timely and accurate filing of Corporate Income Tax (CIT) returns, manage advance tax computations and assessments.
- Manage Transfer Pricing documentation, benchmarking and tax audits by coordinating with statutory auditor of the company.
- Handle tax provisioning, deferred tax calculations and disclosures under Ind AS.
- Maintain robust systems for the correct deduction and deposit of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS) on all payments (salaries, interest, professional fees, etc.)
- Lead representation before tax authorities, appellate tribunals, and consultants.

3. Litigation & Risk Management
- Manage ongoing tax litigation, disputes, and notices across direct taxes.
- Identify tax risks and implement robust internal controls and SOPs.
- Manage and represent the company during tax assessments, inquiries, appeals, and litigation processes from Indian tax authoriti

📌 Taxation Head (Chennai)
🏢 Salcomp
📍 Chennai