Sobhan Kar

Sobhan is a senior adviser (transfer pricing) at Deloitte India. He advises on advance pricing agreement (APA) and mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases to achieve effective and efficient resolution.

Before joining Deloitte in January 2022, Sobhan was an officer of the Indian Revenue Service for more than 21 years. He was part of the team that was instrumental in rolling out the APA programme in India from 2012–14. Sobhan was also second-in-command and the chief negotiator (as the director (APA)) in the Indian competent authority team for almost seven years. He negotiated various bilateral APAs and transfer pricing MAP cases with the competent authorities of North American and European countries. Sobhan has also finalised numerous unilateral APA applications.

He is a postgraduate in politics (international relations) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and a graduate in economics (major) and anthropology (minor) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.