Ravikant GuptaDr Ravi Kant Gupta is an officer of 2005 batch of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) cadre, Government of India. He is a medical graduate (MBBS, Punjab University) and did his
postgraduate in management (PGDM) majoring in Finance & Strategy, from India
Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow. During the course of service he has completed
Bachelors in Law (LLB, Mumbai University) and Masters in Taxation and Business
Laws (MTBL) from NALSAR University of Law. Having been selected for prestigious
Chevening Scholarship, he is currently pursuing Masters in Public Administration &
Management (MPA) from acclaimed University College London, UK.
In his career spanning 11 years as an IRS officer hitherto, he has worked in various
capacities as an Assistant Commissioner Income Tax in the non-corporate & corporate
assessment charges at Mumbai. He also served as the Deputy Director Income
Tax (Investigation), Mumbai, India; where he was involved in many key and sensitive
investigations. For almost three years he served as Director, National Health
Mission, Haryana undertaking many initiatives for improving the health indicators
of mothers and infants in the state. He served as the Joint Commissioner Income Tax
(Transfer Pricing) at Pune, India; where he audited several cases of MNEs involving
complex transfer pricing issues. He has always been involved in academics besides
pursuing his career. For his MTBL in 20010, he wrote his thesis on “Recent Trends in
Transfer Pricing”. For his valuable contribution to “Let us Share”, Dr Gupta has been
awarded Appreciation Certificate by CBDT in 2011 & 2012.
He is a highly distinguished officer of his IRS batch, having been awarded, V R Bapat
Memorial Gold Medal for academics, V R Akerkar Gold Medal for Income Tax and
C C Ganapathy Memorial Gold Medal for accounting at National Academy of Direct
Taxes, Nagpur. Dr Gupta is an avid traveller, photographer, fitness enthusiast and can
speak Hindi, English, Punjabi and French. For any comments and suggestions, he can
be reached on e-mail at ravikantg@gmail.com and on twitter @ravikant1211. Read More Read Less