Tax Advisers - Deloitte

India
Mukesh Butani
BMR & Associates
The Great Eastern Centre
1st Floor, 70, Nehru Place
New Delhi 110019
India
Tel: (91) 11 3081 5010
Email: mukesh.butani@bmrtax.com
Website: www.bmrtax.com
Mukesh Butani is co-founder of BMR & Associates and leads the tax practice of the
firm. He specializes in international tax and transfer-pricing matters. Mr Butani was
tax practice leader and international tax partner of Ernst & Young India until August
2004. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Mr Butani led Andersen’s international tax,
oil and gas and transfer pricing teams.
Mr Butani has over 23 years’ experience in advising several fortune 500 multinationals on
a range of cross-border tax structuring, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions and
investment structuring matters. He is an acknowledged expert in the area of transfer
pricing and has authored a treatise on Indian transfer pricing for LexisNexis Butterworths
and CCH’s Indian Transfer Pricing Guide. For the past 12 years, he has been advising
clients in the energy and technology industry and the Japanese business community.
Mr Butani interacts regularly with India’s Inland Revenue, CBDT, to monitor tax
legislative changes, trends on emerging tax regulations and tax policy/administration
matters. He has been actively involved with several USA and Japan MAP proceedings.
He is a member of OECD’s business restructuring advisory group and ICC, Paris
Taxation Commission.
He is a regular speaker in significant national and international tax conferences, a
columnist with India’s leading business journals and a contributor to leading
international tax journals including International Tax Review (ITR), the Asia-Pacific
guide of IBFD on a wide range of cross-border tax and transfer-pricing matters. For
the past four consecutive years, he has been consistently rated by ITR as among the
leading individual tax advisers in India. The World Tax 2006 and 2007 guide to
leading tax firms has rated him as a leading tax adviser in the category of mergers
and acquisitions and cross-border structuring.
Mr Butani has a bachelor’s degree in commerce (majoring in advanced accounting)
from the University of Bombay, and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985. He
joined Arthur Andersen in 1986 and was made a partner in 1995. He plays an active
role in the Indian affairs of the International Fiscal Association and has served as its
secretary general. He chaired the Tariff on Tax Committee of the American
Chamber of Commerce for a period of three years (2000 to 2003) and was cochairman
of the tax committee of one of India’s leading chambers of commerce,
FICCI, until 2005. Mukesh was a member of the Government of India’s Empowered
Committee on E-Commerce Taxation.
Mr Butani is featured in Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Tax and
Transfer Pricing Advisers, and in June 2004, India’s leading business magazine,
Business Today nominated Mukesh among the 25 top managers in the country in the
under-40 age category.
In 2002, ITR rated Andersen as the best tax advisory firm for cross-border work. As
leader of Ernst & Young’s tax practice, Mukesh was instrumental in integrating the
tax practices of Andersen & EY. In 2003 and 2004, ITR rated Ernst & Young as the
best tax advisory firm. Recently in its inaugural Asia Tax awards 2006, ITR
recognized BMR as the best firm in India and Asia for addressing tax controversies.
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