Ajay Arun Mehta

Practice areas

Twelve areas, each written up in full

Every page below sets out what the work actually involves rather than listing it as a service line. If a matter sits across two of them, it usually starts with a scoped advisory session.

Taxation & Regulatory Advocacy

Strategic Direct Tax compliance, litigation support, and international taxation advisory tailored for long-term fiscal health.

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Audit & Assurance

Full-spectrum audit services including Statutory Audit, Internal Audit, Tax Audit, Financial Due Diligence, and Forensic Audit for corporate transparency and compliance.

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International Taxation & NRI Services

DTAA treaty benefits, NRI property taxation, 15CA/15CB certification, Transfer Pricing, FEMA repatriation, and residential status advisory for cross-border clients.

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Tax Planning & Advisory

Choosing between the regimes on your own numbers, salary and capital gains under the rules as they now stand, presumptive and company rates for an owner-managed business, advance tax, and succession.

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Indirect Tax (GST) Ecosystem

End-to-end GST advisory, compliance management, ITC optimization, Real Estate & JDA compliance, annual returns, and litigation support for businesses navigating India's indirect tax landscape.

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Corporate Advisory & Business Setup

Strategic business formation, corporate secretarial compliance, FEMA & FDI advisory, project financing, Virtual CFO services, and M&A transaction advisory.

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Financial Due Diligence & M&A Support

Comprehensive buy-side and sell-side due diligence, Quality of Earnings analysis, Net Working Capital assessment, and post-merger integration support for high-stakes transactions.

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Project Financing & Debt Syndication

Capital structuring and lender selection, detailed project reports, CMA data and the ratios an appraisal turns on, working capital and term loans, non-fund based limits, and resolution under stress.

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Litigation Support

Representation through reassessment, faceless scrutiny, search assessments, the Commissioner (Appeals), the Dispute Resolution Panel and the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, together with penalty, stay and recovery.

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Bookkeeping, Payroll & Outsourcing

Books kept so the GST return, the withholding return and the financial statements all come out of the same data, with payroll, management reporting, inventory and fixed assets, and a back-office for overseas owners.

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Start-up Advisory

Entity and founder structuring, DPIIT recognition and the section 80-IAC deduction, valuation, funding rounds and diligence readiness, ESOPs, and the loss carry-forward a funding round can quietly destroy.

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Capital Markets: Taxation and Portfolio Review

Taxation of listed equity and mutual funds, futures and options as a business with its own audit test, reconciliation against the annual information statement, employer shares, non-resident investors, and portfolio review on the tax consequences.

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