Sessions
Session 2: Disruption to Traditional International Tax Norms
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM Tue
Session 1: Transfer Pricing in the Digital Age
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Wed
Mukesh is the non-executive Chairman of BMR Advisors and Managing Partner of BMR Legal. With specialisation in corporate international tax and transfer pricing for over three decades, he has significant experience in advising Fortune 500 multinationals and large Indian business houses on a wide range of matters relating to FDI policy, business re-organisations, cross-border tax structuring, corporate international tax and controversy across a range of sectors.
For the past decade, he has been consistently featured amongst leading international tax and transfer pricing advisors in independent surveys, most notably Euromoney’s International Tax Review, Legal Review Expert Guides (2002 to 2015), Asia Law Leading Lawyers, Chambers & Partners and Who’s Who Legal of Corporate Tax Lawyers. Mukesh has been consistently ranked amongst India’s top Tax Controversy Lawyers since 2013 in the expert guide of International Tax Review.
Mukesh has several authorships to his credit, including Tax Dispute Resolution: Challenges and Opportunities in India and Transfer Pricing: An Indian Perspective (LexisNexis Butterworths) and a treatise on Transfer Pricing (India chapter) in Resolving Transfer Pricing Disputes (Cambridge University Press). His other authorships include the Wolters Kluwer CCH online guide to Transfer Pricing in Asia and the India chapters on Business Restructurings, Customs Valuation and intra-group services, co-authored for the IBFD.
Before the formation of BMR & Associates in 2004, Mukesh spent 18 years in Big 4 accounting firms as tax practice leader and part of the firm’s leadership. He set up BMR Legal in 2010.
Mukesh participated in the Kelkar task force (2002) tax reforms and was a member of the Indian Ministry of Finance (MoF) committee (2000) on e-commerce taxation. Mukesh served as member of the expert task force on International Tax and Transfer Pricing set up by the MoF in July 2012. He was a member of the Tax Bureau of OECD-BIAC (2012) and the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA (2012-2016). He served as a member of the Focus Group on administrative practices on tax disputes under the Tax Administration Reform Commission (TARC) set up in August 2013 by the MoF. Mukesh participated as part of the eminent expert panel of NITI Aayog (2014), a policy think tank of the Government of India chaired by the PM. He is a founder member (2015) of the International Tax Research & Analysis Foundation (ITRAF), an independent think tank for research and analysis in the area of international tax policy to ensure superior policy and effective tax administration in India, including integration of domestic policies with the OECD/G20 led Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative.
He is presently the Vice Chairman of the Taxation Commission of ICC Paris (2011 onwards). He is representing the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris on the MoF Standing Committee on TDS and Foreign Tax Credit.
Mukesh is a Commerce graduate from the University of Bombay and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and enrolled as an Advocate in 2010. He is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi and has represented clients in several Income-tax Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.