Ravi S. Raghavan
Partner, Tax and Private Client Group
Ravi S. Raghavan has more than 25 years of experience in corporate tax advisory work, business re-organizations, international taxation (investment and fund structuring, repatriation strategies, treaty analysis, advance rulings, exchange control regulations, FPI taxation), tax litigation services and other tax issues (including withholding taxes, capital gains tax, permanent establishment concerns, employee taxation, and tax holiday schemes).
Rankings & Credentials
- Investment Structuring and Repatriation Strategy
- Corporate Tax Advisory and Litigation
- Fund Formation
- Financial Services and Insurance
- Technology
- Pharmaceuticals and Life-Sciences
- B. Sc. (Chemistry), Guru Nanak Khalsa College, University of Mumbai
- LL. B., D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce, University of Mumbai
- LL. M., D. G. Ruparel College of Arts, Science and Commerce, University of Mumbai
- Master of Management Studies, University of Mumbai
- India
- Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa
- Friends of IBFD – International Tax Group
- International Tax Planning Professionals Group
Recent Transactions
- Advised Nippon Soda Co., Limited on complex Indian tax and structuring issues in relation to the launch of a business platform in India.
- Advised Grab, Inc., Singapore, on the tax aspects of establishing a limited liability partnership in India.
- Advised Builder Homesite, Inc. on tax structuring, intermediate holding company structures and transfer pricing issues in relation to acquisition of Indian entities.
- Advised Lumiata, Inc. on Indian transfer pricing and permanent establishment issues in relation to its Indian subsidiary.
- Advised Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited on tax issues in relation to the establishment of a subsidiary in India.
- Advised NantHealth Inc. on tax issues in relation to the sale of its Indian subsidiary to Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Articles
The Clean Slate Doctrine and the tax quandary
Download Now Background The Clean Slate Doctrine is a key legal principle embedded in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC”), which plays a pivotal role in the corporate insolvency process in India. The doctrine suggests that once a company...
The proposed structure of India’s new Income-tax Bill, 2025
Download .pdf Background In July 2024, India’s Finance Minister announced that a comprehensive review of the existing Income-tax Act, 1961 (the “IT Act”) would be undertaken with the intent to make the tax law simple and to minimize tax controversy. The Finance...
India’s Budget 2025-26: Direct Tax Proposals – Key Highlights
Download .pdf India’s Union Budget (the “Budget”) was announced on February 1, 2025, and the Finance Bill, 2025 (the “Finance Bill”) was tabled in Parliament. The Finance Bill will be discussed in Parliament before its enactment, and it is likely that it will be...
Income arising from crypto sales prior to April 1, 2022 to be taxed as capital gains and not as income from other sources
Download .pdf Background An individual salaried taxpayer (the “Individual”) purchased bitcoins during the financial year 2015-16 and sold them in the financial year 2020-21. In the tax return, the Individual claimed that the bitcoins sold qualified as a capital...
Compensation received under an arbitral award not “Other Income”
Download .pdf Background In 1998, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (“MTNL”) invited tenders for Code-Division Multiple Access (“CDMA”) technology supply on a turnkey basis. In 1999, a contract was awarded to a joint venture between Fujitsu Ltd. (“Fujitsu”), a...
Profit attribution to a Permanent Establishment in India – A vexed issue
Download .pdf Background Foreign companies in India are often subjected to a tax audit scrutiny by the Indian tax authorities to check if they have a Permanent Establishment (“PE”) in India and what will be the profits attributable to such a PE. The issue of...