Job Summary:

- The role involves end-to-end management of indirect tax compliance, and litigation for a portfolio of clients.
- The role also covers handling of ongoing indirect tax litigation, including drafting and submitting responses to notices and queries raised by indirect tax authorities.
- On the compliance side, the role is responsible for timely and accurate filing of GST returns, ensuring statutory tax payments are made on schedule, and reconciling GST payable with GST actually paid, as well as reconciling filed returns against the client's books of accounts and GSTR-2A/2B data.
- The role also requires providing advisory support to clients on GST and customs matters, helping them navigate complex indirect tax scenarios and regulatory changes. This includes reviewing working papers and client engagement files for accuracy and completeness, and ensuring all deliverables meet the quality and turnaround expectations of client engagements.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Manage end-to-end indirect tax engagements encompassing Goods and Services Tax (GST), Customs, Foreign Trade Policy (FTP), and legacy indirect tax matters including Service Tax, VAT, Excise and CST.

2. Represent and support clients in departmental audits, investigations, assessments, enquiries, searches, inspections, scrutiny proceedings,



and anti-evasion matters under GST and allied indirect tax laws.

3. Draft, review, and file replies to notices, summons, show cause notices, audit observations, investigation proceedings, and appellate submissions before various indirect tax authorities.

4. Manage indirect tax litigation matters including preparation of appeals, stay applications, written submissions, compilation of documents, and coordination with counsels for representation before appellate authorities, Tribunals, High Courts, and other judicial forums.

5. Advise clients on GST implications relating to business transactions, supply chain arrangements, cross-border transactions, place of supply, valuation, classification, input tax credit, exemptions, exports, and special economic zone (SEZ) transactions.

6. Provide Customs and Foreign Trade advisory services relating to imports and exports, customs valuation, classification, exemptions, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), rules of origin, export incentives, and trade compliance.

7. Review and reconcile GST returns with books of accounts, GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-2B, e-invoice data, and other financial records while identifying and resolving discrepancies.

📌 Sr. Consultant/AM- Indirect Tax Litigation (Gurugram)
🏢 AKM Global
📍 Gurugram