Amit Maheshwari is the Tax Partner at AKM Global, a consulting firm with a focus on cross-border transactions. AKM Global provides a full spectrum of Entry strategy, Consulting, Transaction Advisory, Tax, and Transfer Pricing services in India. He leads the firm’s International Tax practice.
With more than 15 years of experience, he advises clients across industries on the tax treatment of domestic and cross-border transactions. He has expertise in bringing tax-efficient solutions to M&A transactions, tax structuring, and repatriation planning. He also helps expatriates and high-net-worth individuals in managing their tax compliance. He works extensively with foreign CPAs and law firms to develop tax-efficient structures for clients in India and abroad. Amit focuses on corporate tax practice and provides tax planning and consulting services to the MNCs including representing the companies before regulatory bodies in India.
Amit always takes a forward-looking approach to identify tax law and business opportunities that can help clients accomplish their objectives. He has experience across various sectors including Software, ITES, Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, PEO, Shipping, Transportation, Logistics, Metal & Mining, Automobile, Engineering, Pharma & FMCG. Amit’s practice involves serving clients with operations in India, USA, UK, Japan, Singapore, and countries in western Europe.
Under Amit’s able leadership, the tax practice of AKM Global has grown multifold with a total headcount of around 400 people serving foreign companies. The firm has been consistently ranked as a Tier 3 firm in International Tax Reviews’ “Transfer Tax Guide” from 2017 to 2022. Over the last 2 years, the firm has successfully started helping the US and UK CPA firms in managing their tax compliances. The practice line is doing corporate, individual, trust as well as international tax returns. Amit was nominated as “Asia Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year” in Asia Tax Awards by ITR in 2017. Moreover, Amit is recognized as a Tax Leader in World Tax Controversy Leaders Guide 2021 and a Transfer Pricing Expert in 2018 & 2019 listed by Euromoney.
Amit is an avid author on tax and regulatory issues and a regular speaker at several international conferences on subjects including India Entry Strategy, International tax, and Transfer Pricing. He actively contributes his views on International Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Exchange Control Regulations to the known Television Channels as well as the domestic and international publishing houses including Economic Times, Financial Express, Reuters, Financial Times, Tax Analysts of US, CNBC, etc.
Amit has co-authored “Expatriate Taxation - Decoding the Complexity", a book that focuses on Income-tax and Regulatory aspects applicable to expatriates in India.
To serve the industry, Amit is active in various industry chambers in India and is a member of international accounting alliances.
Amit Maheshwari is the Tax Partner at AKM Global, a consulting firm with a focus on cross-border transactions. AKM Global provides a full spectrum of Entry strategy, Consulting, Transaction Advisory, Tax, and Transfer Pricing services in India. He leads the firm’s International Tax practice.
With more than 15 years of experience in international tax, he advises clients across industries on the tax treatment of domestic and cross-border transactions. He has deep expertise in bringing tax-efficient solutions to M&A transactions, tax structuring, and repatriation planning. He also helps expatriates and high-net-worth individuals in managing their tax compliance. He works extensively with foreign law firms and CPA firms to develop tax-efficient structures for clients in India and abroad. Amit focuses on corporate tax practice and provides tax planning and consulting services to the MNCs including representing the companies before regulatory bodies in India.
Amit always takes a forward-looking approach to identify tax law and business opportunities that can help clients accomplish their objectives and optimize results. He has experience across various industries including Software, ITES, Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Aviation, Manufacturing, Auto, Retail, Financial Services, PEO, Shipping, Transportation, and Logistics industry, Metal & Mining, Automobile, Engineering, Pharma & FMCG sectors. Amit’s practice has involved serving clients with operations in India, the USA, the UK, Japan, Singapore, and countries in western Europe.
Under Amit’s able leadership, the tax practice of AKM Global has grown multifold with a total headcount of around 400 people serving foreign companies. The firm has been consistently ranked as a Tier 3 firm in International Tax Reviews’ “Transfer Tax Guide” from 2017 to 2022. Over the last 2 years, the firm has successfully started helping the US and UK CPA firms in managing their tax compliances. The practice line is doing corporate, individual, trust as well as international tax returns. Amit was nominated as “Asia Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year” in Asia Tax Awards by ITR in 2017. In addition to this, Amit is recognized as a Tax Leader in World Tax Controversy Leaders Guide 2021 and a Transfer Pricing Expert in 2018 & 2019 listed by Euromoney.
Amit is an avid author on tax and regulatory issues and a regular speaker at several international conferences on subjects including India Entry Strategy, International tax, and Transfer Pricing. He actively contributes his views on International Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Exchange Control Regulations to the known Television Channels as well as the domestic and international publishing houses including The Economic Times, Business Standard, Financial Express, Indian Express, Reuters, Financial Times of UK, Tax Analysts of US, CNBC, ET NOW, etc.
Amit has co-authored books including “Expatriate Taxation - Decoding the Complexity", which focuses on Income-tax and Regulatory aspects applicable to expatriates in India (including their employers), and was published by Wolters Kluwer (CCH). He has also co-authored a publication, “Transfer Pricing – a Practical perspective” published by Lexis Nexis. In addition to this his book titled “NRI Regulations – Decoding the complexity”, published by Wolters Kluwer (CCH), provides insight on Indian legislative requirements applicable to Non-Resident Indians (NRIs).
To serve the industry, Amit is active in various industry chambers in India and is a member of reputed international accounting alliances.
