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FinTax hour

Webinar series on FS industry

We are pleased to launch the FinTax hour, a webinar series that will give you an insight into the world of Financial Services (FS) from the tax perspective. The FS space is ready for disruption over the next 10 years, and we need to reinvent our mindset and re-engineer ourselves.

The forum will also help you keep up with the latest developments across various sectors in the FS industry. It will cover key updates, issues and concerns pertaining to tax and regulatory matters in the FS space.

Update and broaden your finance tax knowledge with our thought-provoking deliberations every month.

Upcoming webcasts

Previous webcasts

Investigation and Prosecution in Tax | 28 July 2023

Agenda:
This session covered key aspects of the various provisions under the Income-tax and GST laws relating to surveys, summons, and prosecution proceedings, directors liability, criminal proceedings, handling of these proceedings, and remedies available.

Subject matter speakers:
• Aarti Sathe, Independent Tax Counsel
• Bahroze Kamdin
• M. S. Mani
• Smita Parulkar
 

OECD Pillar 2 – Implications for Indian MNCs | 22 June 2023

Agenda:
This session will cover key aspects of the OECD Pillar 2 Global Anti-Base Erosion Rules (GloBE), application to Indian companies, the transitional safe harbour rules, the broad calculations of the top-tax, the country by country reporting and its relevance for Pillar 2.

Subject matter experts:
• Bahroze Kamdin
• Prithwijit Chaki
• Anushree Jagnani
• Manish Shah
 

Year-end tax compliances and Supreme Court ruling on Employee’s Pension Scheme | 16 March 2023

Agenda:
The financial year ends on 31 March 2023 and it is time for us to take stock of our income and pay advance taxes, also look at our investments / expenses to claim tax reliefs and our compliances for withholding tax, related party transactions and GST liabilities, and input tax credits. We will discuss financial well-being from tax perspective for individuals, and tax reliefs and tax compliances for corporates to be kept in mind for the year-end.

Subject matter experts:
· Alok Agrawal
· Sandeep Jaiswal
· Alifya Hakim
· Meenakshi Krishnamurthy
· Parag Gor

Pre-budget 2023 expectations | 18 January 2023

Agenda:
CFOs / Tax heads from banking, insurance, NBFC, and an AMC will discuss the policy measures and initiatives, and the tax measures/simplifications/reliefs expected from the Union Budget 2023.

Subject matter experts:
Abdulla Pettiwala, Tax head, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company
Bahroze Kamdin
M. S. Mani
Prateek Jain, CFO, Nippon India AMC
Radhika Kamat, Tax head, Deutsche Bank
Vikrant Gandhi, CFO, ICICI Housing Finance Compan

Fintech | 14 December 2022

Agenda:
Tax (income-tax and GST) implications relevant for fintech companies: RBI guidelines on digital lending and tax impact; Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL): Tax implications; free receipt of technology or Intellectual Property and its tax implications; equalisation levy vis-à-vis royalty, withholding tax implications for cross-border payments or auto debits, ESOP taxation, FATCA/CRS compliance, and judicial decision.

Subject matter experts:
• K Baskar
• Sandeep Jaiswal
• Smita Parulkar
• Utkarsh Trivedi
 

Reporting framework for digital assets (crypto assets) | 15 November 2022

 

Agenda:
In the backdrop of the all-new Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on 10 October 2022, we will discuss the following:
• Key provisions of the framework as well as what’s within the purview of crypto assets and the exclusions, the intermediaries covered by the reporting framework, reportable information, and the due diligence procedures
• Recent changes in tax and regulations in India for crypto-asset reporting and the implications of the OECD framework for India

Subject matter experts:
• Denise Marie Hintzke, Global Market Leader, Global Information Reporting (GIR), Deloitte US
• Bahroze Kamdin
• Manish Mandhyan

Capital markets | 14 September 2022

Agenda:
• Recent circulars/notifications and decisions on intermediaries of the capital markets – i.e., brokers, DP, stock exchanges, and clearing houses
• Cloud computing in the stock broking industry and the tax (direct, indirect, transfer pricing) implications thereof

Subject matter experts:
• Vivek Mathur
• Anushree Jagnani
• Rajeev Pallath
• Tejas Mehta

Insurance | 10 August 2022

Agenda:
• Ind As 117 (IFRS 17) and its implications on the insurance companies in India
• Discussion on the tax (direct, indirect, transfer pricing) implications of adoption of Ind AS 117 (IFRS 17)
• Recent judicial precedents and circulars/notifications relevant from an insurance industry perspective

Subject matter experts:
• M.S. Mani
• Smita Parulkar
• Devang Buddhadev
• Hasmukh Rawal
• Sagar Shah

Banking | 13 July 2022

Agenda:
• Neobanks and tax differentiation
• Recent circulars/notification and judicial pronouncements – direct taxes, transfer pricing, indirect taxes

Subject matter experts:
• Bahroze Kamdin
• Samir Gandhi
• Sandeep Jaiswal
• Meenakshi Khurana

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