About Us

Who
we are

At Darda Advisors, we are dedicated to provide curated and client specific solutions through well-thought strategies in addition to helping them solve complex problems pertaining to tax and regulatory matters. Founded in 2019, by a crew of experts all of whom are former Big Four’s professionals with extensive consulting experience in the field. We offer a wide range of services and cater clients spread across the Globe.

Our approach is to bring together global standards and practices, that are developed and customized to meet our client’s needs by collaborating international business practices with India’s market knowledge, laws, regulations and practices. Darda Advisors in its endeavour towards Quality Management System (QMS) has been certified for ISO 9001: 2015.

The team at Darda Advisors has deep industry experience across virtually all sectors including Automobile & Ancillary, Energy & Resources, Education, Financial Services, IT & ITES, Manufacturing & Real Estate, Pharma, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Transport, Hospitality, Trading, MSMEs, Start-ups and others.

Currently, Darda Advisors operates from Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi-NCR (Gurugram) and Bhilwara (Rajasthan).

Why Us

Experienced
Team

Darda Advisors is founded by group of former Big Four professional’s having 15+ years of average individual experience and came together from across the practice areas.

Darda Advisors brings together global standards and practices, synergized for client’s local requirement and expectation.

Glocalized
Strategy

Customised
Approach

Darda Advisors integrates experience of Indian and international business practices with know-how specific to client’s requirement.

Our team at Darda Advisors brings their industry experience and subject’s detailed research with issue based ideation solution.

In-Depth Research and Ideation

Our Leadership

(Strategic Management and Tax Advisor)

(Litigation & Tax Advisor)

(Forensic, Customs and Trade Advisor)

(Assurance and Accounting Advisor)

(Chief Catalyst and Financial Advisor)

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Vineet Suman Darda

(Strategic Management and Tax Advisor)

[FCA, ACS, CMA(I)]

Vineet is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and CMA (I) with 15+ years of industry and consulting experience (13+ years in Big 4s) in the Tax and Regulatory Services in leadership role. Vineet worked with Ernst and Young, Deloitte and KPMG in the field of indirect tax.

Vineet has worked and currently serving leading players in diverse industry sectors. With an experience of more than a one and half decade, Vineet is presently serving on the board of several companies as indirect tax advisor.

He is a regular speaker and presenter on various forums and steering ‘Invest India’ initiative campaign by extensively working and decoding various State and Central Level Incentives launched in India.

Vineet brings extensive experience and knowledge in the field of India’s Indirect Tax Laws with a particular focus on GST, erstwhile Central Excise, Service Tax, VAT and Indian Customs law and Trade, Foreign Trade Policy, Central and State incentives, SEZ, EOU, GCC VAT and others.

Mitu Surana

(Litigation & Tax Advisor)

[B.Com, FCA]

Mitu is a qualified Chartered Accountant and having over 16 years of experience in the field of Indirect Taxes including GST (around 10 years in Big 4). She worked with Karvy Group, PWC, Deloitte, KPMG and Ernst and Young.

Mitu is having extensive experience in drafting replies to SCN & Appeals up to Tribunal level in GST, VAT/Sales tax, Service tax and Excise matters including representation before various adjudication authorities and first level appellate authorities, especially in VAT/Sales tax and Service tax matters.

Mitu is involved in structuring of business transactions / opportunities vis-à-vis various Indirect tax regulations , conducting GST, VAT, Service Tax Workshops, System implementation support.

K.Bindusaran

(Forensic, Customs and Trade Advisor)

Bindusaran is a retired Customs officer and having more than 30 years of experience in the field of Customs and Forensic Audit.

He handled various work during stint at Customs, C.Excise and Service Tax Department and having hands on experience in handling sensitive and critical Customs and Anti-Evasion matter, Information Technology (Oracle DB, Excel Programming) and Indirect Tax Advisory, Litigation, Compliance, Forensics / Audit.

Piyush Khandelwal

(Assurance and Accounting Advisor)

[FCA, MBA, Dip in IFRS]

Piyush is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has been involved in several complex assignments having more than 15 years of experience in Big 4s [KPMG] in IFRS conversion, ICDS, Companies Act implementation and diagnostic study, audits, US GAAP accounting advisory, preparation of carve out financial statements, financial reporting process advisory, and other similar large and complex projects.

As part of this role, Piyush has also gained extensive knowledge and experience in various aspects of financial reporting, financial analytical processes, technical accounting matters under both Indian GAAP and IFRS and Companies Act 2013.

D. Abhinandan

(Chief Catalyst and Financial Advisor)

Mr. D. Abhinandan  has worked for various organizations in his career span of more than 35 years with vast experience of handling commercial and central excise related matters of Manufacturing companies.

He has specialized in supply chain management from tax perspective and have also handled Statutory areas (compliance, assessments, litigation & Refunds) related to Central Excise department.

He is Chairman of Maha Tejas Finance Private Limited (An NBFC involved in lending business across India).

Further, he has been in the money lending business to various Firms and Corporate for about 35 years and has complete knowledge of the operations of the lending business.

Incentives, subsidies and grants services

Manufacturing has emerged as one of the high growth sectors in India targeting global markets and are becoming formidable global competitors. To promote India as manufacturing hub, Central and State/Union Territories Governments provides various incentives, subsidies and grants to set up manufacturing facility in India. In addition, there are certain incentives for services and other sectors too.

The Government of India provides sector specific subsidies for promoting manufacturing. Further, Package Scheme of Incentives (PIS) is a policy made by every individual state to promote industrial development, employment, investments, inventions and growth. A PIS differs from state to state and is governed by the Directorate of Industrial Policy and Promotions. The development of every state very much depends upon their state policy and also their ease of doing business (EoDB) ranking. Generally, state policies are for the period of 5 years.

Every industrialists and manufacturers need guidance and support to understand central and state policy. Our team at Darda Advisors is highly business oriented in approach and has experience across sectors and the acumen to provide complete solutions for all incentives, subsidies and grants related matters. We provide the following key services:

  • Evaluating various Central and State industrial policy and suggest optimal benefits availability
  • Assist in consultation and negotiation of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Government
  • Assistance in retrieval of supporting documents from Central/State authority
  • Obtaining pre-approval as required under State Industrial Policies and Central Policies for specific sector
  • Designing system and assistance for generation of necessary documentation for preparing refund/ disbursement claim
  • Preparing refund/disbursement claim as per statutory requirement
  • Filing and processing of refund/disbursement claim with Central/State Authority and follow up
  • Making representation in case refund/disbursement claim rejected