Amit Kumar Sarkar Email and Phone Number

Practice Leader of Indirect Taxes, with additional responsibility to expand the Firm's services in India and overseas.

After 2 decades in the profession, I am starting off on my own with Versari Advisors India LLP. About Us: Versari Advisors help clients navigate through Tax, Regulatory and Process (TRaP) functions to maximise their business opportunities. All too frequently, we have seen enterprises getting into the TRaP of mismanaging taxes, processes and regulations that lead to many salutary business enterprises struggle to meet their business objectives. Inversely, businesses that have effectively managed their TRaP functions well, eventually maximise benefits at the last mile of connect with stakeholders (customers, business partners, vendors, etc). At Versari, we call this TRaP the Golden Mile of business opportunity!

Leading a National Team of 16 partners and more than 250 professionals to meet the challenges of indirect taxes in our fast changing legislative structure. At BDO, we combine tech based platforms with our proven expertise to deliver bespoke solutions to clients who need to navigate the new and uncharted world of GST.

In-charge of serving clients across India on all Indirect tax matters, including advisory, compliances, litigation assistance and other value added services. In Grant Thornton, we firmly believe in working together with our clients and seek to eagerly earn their trust and faith as a business advisor who provides the growth navigation backed with roboust compliances to all segments in the industry.

Responsible for providing indirect tax services to clients of Grant Thornton in West and South India

In-charge of indirect tax service line for Chennai, serving diverse clients in industries as disparate as Real Estate, Auto, Pharma, Telecom, IT/ITeS, etc

Specialising in providing indirect tax advisory, compliance and litigation support services to the Financial Services, Technology and Logistics sectors.

Specialising in indirect taxes for the Technology, Financial Services and Oil & Gas Sectors.

Indirect tax working on IT/ITES, Financial Services and Oil & Gas sectors. Significantly expanded KPMG indirect tax practice footprint in serving Banks and Insurance Companies

In-charge of all support desks facilitiating research and analytics to North America IED teams through MSAS-India. Also responsible for providing daily updates to the European Special Situations teams to identify buy-sell opportunities Coordinating between overseas teams and India support desks to identify and "outsource" more support services that can be managed from India

Continued working with EY after integration of Andersen India with EY. Continued focus on advising and assisting clients in their transition from the erstwhile Sales Tax structure to multi-tax VAT structure with input tax credits. Significant work done for the Oil & Gas, Telecommunication, Insurance, and Pharma sectors

Started life in the "Big 5" with the biggest of them all! Arthur Andersen. Initiated career in indirect tax consulting as part of the Core VAT team set up within Andersen to track and advice clients on the proposed shift in taxation from Sales Tax to VAT.

Part of the start-up team which incorporated, ran, downsized and eventually sold the business incubated by Mail.com within the portal www.india.com. My brief was dynamic - from setting up the Accounts and Finance function, to administering the same, global and India reporting, interactions with Statutory Auditors, assisting in contract negotiations with key vendors for foreclosures and downsizing, and generally helping out in any way I could...