Rahul Mitra joins KPMG India from PwC

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Rahul Mitra joins KPMG India from PwC

Rahul Mitra has joined KPMG India (BRS & Associates is the affiliated chartered accountant firm) as a partner in the tax and transfer pricing practice and national leader of dispute resolution and litigation for direct taxes and transfer pricing. This move follows more than 20 years with PwC.

MItra was a partner in the tax & regulatory services practice of PwC India between April 1999 and February 2015 and national leader of the firm's transfer pricing practice between 2010 and 2014.

He specialises in transfer pricing, particularly inbound & outbound planning assignments; profit/ cash repatriation planning; value chain transformation or supply chain management projects; and profit attribution to permanent establishments. He also handles litigation for top companies at the level of the income tax tribunals. Some of his major wins have included BMW India Cheil Communications and ITC Infotech.

Mitra has handled several APAs in India, covering complex transactions for clients from across industries, for example, industrial franchise fees/ variable royalties under non-integrated principal structures; contract R&D service provider models; distribution models, with related marketing intangible issues; financial transactions; and profit split models for royalties.

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