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Biography
Rupesh Reddy is a Partner at Steadfast Business Consulting LLP, leading the firm's indirect taxation and virtual CFO services practices. He advises clients across a broad range of sectors on GST, indirect tax compliance, labour law matters, and regulatory requirements.
His GST practice encompasses compliance reviews, audits, refunds, impact assessments, and advisory services. Rupesh has led GST reviews and compliance programmes for clients in the information technology and IT-enabled services, retail, agriculture, logistics, and hospitality sectors. He is directly involved in GST impact assessments, reviews, and audits across a diverse range of industries.
Drawing on extensive experience in accounting, internal audit, bank audit, direct taxation, value-added tax, and service tax matters, he combines practical commercial insight with technical tax expertise. His practice also includes advising on Central Sales Tax, sales tax, and VAT matters, including audits and appeals.
In addition, Rupesh provides virtual CFO services, assisting clients with statutory and regulatory compliance management and helping organisations navigate complex regulatory frameworks to maintain compliance with evolving legal requirements.
Year joined firm: 2021
His GST practice encompasses compliance reviews, audits, refunds, impact assessments, and advisory services. Rupesh has led GST reviews and compliance programmes for clients in the information technology and IT-enabled services, retail, agriculture, logistics, and hospitality sectors. He is directly involved in GST impact assessments, reviews, and audits across a diverse range of industries.
Drawing on extensive experience in accounting, internal audit, bank audit, direct taxation, value-added tax, and service tax matters, he combines practical commercial insight with technical tax expertise. His practice also includes advising on Central Sales Tax, sales tax, and VAT matters, including audits and appeals.
In addition, Rupesh provides virtual CFO services, assisting clients with statutory and regulatory compliance management and helping organisations navigate complex regulatory frameworks to maintain compliance with evolving legal requirements.
Year joined firm: 2021
Recent Matter / Case Highlights
- Reduced a GST audit exposure of approximately USD 49.12 million to 0.2% of the amount under dispute for an OTT streaming platform operating across India, Canada, and the United States.
- Resolved a comprehensive GST departmental audit for a multinational consumer electronics company, successfully closing multiple issues spanning four financial years. Matter value: approximately USD 76.29 million.
- Defended a multi-issue GST show cause notice for an SEZ software development centre involving the taxability of foreign exchange gains and reverse-charge exposure. Matter value: approximately USD 41.36 million.
- Acted on GST export refund litigation concerning cross-border netting of receivables and payables for a digital streaming platform operating across India, Singapore, and the United States. Matter value: approximately USD 9.6 million.
- Defended an IGST export classification involving cross-border infrastructure support services, addressing intermediary versus principal service characterisation issues across India, Singapore, and the UAE. Matter value: approximately USD 23.42 million.
Key Practice Areas
- Indirect tax
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- VAT
- Central Sales Tax
- Tax advisory
- Tax consulting
- Tax controversy management
- Compliance management
- Business model optimisation
- Audit support
- Audit defence
- Dispute resolution
- Pre-litigation advisory
- Supply chain tax matters
- Regulatory compliance
- Virtual CFO services
Sector Expertise
- Agriculture
- Consumer goods and services
- Technology and telecommunications
- Tourism
- Transport and logistics
Education / Alumni
- Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Bar Admissions
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI),
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Website:https://steadfastconsultants.in/sbc-team/ca-rupesh-reddy/
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India
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