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Our Vision

To work in the total interest of the client with best of professional skills, knowledge, commitment, integrity and ensure professional excellence with client centric approach.


Our Mission

In our pursuit to attain and follow our vision, ASCO is committed to ensure fullest application of mind, knowledge and skills and deliver the desired services. At ASCO, upgrading of skills and knowledge are a priority and practice with ethical standards and integrity – personal and professional are nucleus to whatever we do in our professional endeavors.


Practice Areas

  • Goods & Services Tax (GST)
  • Other Indirect Taxation
    • Central Excise
    • Customs
    • Service Tax maters
  • Corporate Governance
  • Company Law
  • Corporate Laws (SEBI, LLP etc)
  • Direct Taxation
  • Insolvency & bankruptcy
  • Accounting, Auditing & Attestation (including CAG / Bank Audits)
Professional Services

GST & Indirect Taxation

  • Transaction advisory
  • Impact Analysis
  • Advisory & consulting
  • Compliance management
  • Due diligence
  • Anti-profiteering
  • Adjudication / assessments
  • Litigation – Appeals at all forums (before appellant authorities, Tribunal)
  • Audit and attestation

    Corporate advisory services

    Legal opinions

    Representation

    Training and client mentoring

    Research, studies and reports

    Newsletters

    Publications

    Publications
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    List of Books authored by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal

    Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal has authored over 35 publications(books) on various professional subjects

    A. Corporate Laws / Corporate Governance

    1) A Commentary on the Companies Act, 1956(February, 2001) (Two Volumes)

    Foreword By : Justice M N Venkatachaliah, Former, Chief Justice of India & Chairperson, National Commission for Review of Constitution.

    Released By : Hon'ble Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Law, Justice & Company Affair

    2) Audit Committee – Law & Practice (July 2003)

    Published By: Snow White Publications Pvt. Ltd, Bombay

    Foreword By : Pavan Kumar Vijay, President, ICSI, New Delhi

    3) Corporate Governance –Concepts and Dimensions (Sept.,2003)

    Foreword by : Justice M N Venkatachaliah, Former, Chief Justice of India & Chairperson,Central Listing Authority of India

    Released by : Shri G.N. Bajpayee, Chairman, SEBI

    4) Limited Liability Partnership – Law and procedure (April 2009)

    Published By: Lexis Nexis Butterworth, India (2nd edition in press)

    5) Guide for Independent Directors (2020)

    (Company Law, SEBI Guidelines and Corporate Governance)

    Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing India

    B. Capital Market / Financial Services

    1) A Manual of Indian Capital Market (First published 1993)

    2) Investors Guide to Stock Market (First Published 1994)

    3) Understanding Stock Market (1996)

    4) Financial Markets, Financial Services and Financial products (1995) for PMQ
    Course on Capital Markets of ICSI, New Delhi.

    5) Guide to Indian Capital Market (2000)

    6) Depositories- Law, Practice & Procedures (Sept.1998)
    Foreword by: Mr. C.B. Bhave, Managing Director, NSDL, Mumbai Released by: Shri D.R. Mehta, Chairman, SEBI

    7) Investor's Guide to Depositories (1999)
    Foreword by: Shri D.R. Mehta, SEBI Chairman

    C. Indirect Taxation (Service Tax)

    1) A Hand Book of Service Tax (Law, Practice and Procedure)

    (First Published 1994)

    Foreword by: Dr. Raja Chelliah, Fiscal Advisor, Government of India

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    [Last Twenty sixth Edition]

    2) Assessee’s Guide to Service Tax (First Published July, 2004)

    [Last Twelfth Edition –2014]

    3) Understanding Service Tax through FAQ’s

    [First published, September 2005, Reprinted 2006]

    4) Law of Service Tax in India

    [First Published - July, 2012; Last published June, 2017]

    5) Service Tax Case Digest

    [First published, September, 2013 in 2 Volumes -2016]

    D. Indirect Taxation [Goods and Services Tax (GST)]

    1) Guide to Goods & Service Tax
    [First Published – January, 2016]

    2) A Complete Guide to Goods & Service Tax
    [Ready Reckoner in Q & A Format – First published 2016; 2nd ed 2017]

    3) Goods & Services Tax - Law & Practice (April, 2017)

    4) Goods & Services Tax - Law, Concepts & Impact Analysis of Select Industries (First published January, 2017; 2e, May, 2017)

    5) Goods & Services Tax – Law, Concepts & Impact Analysis for Traders and Service Providers (August, 2017)

    6) Goods & Service Tax – Law, Concepts & Impact Analysis for Industry and Manufacturing Sector (September, 2017)

    7) Compendium of Judicial Pronouncements - Relevant under GST regime (January, 2018)

    8) Compendium of GST Cases with Summary First Published (July, 2018; now in 6th edition)

    9) Compendium of GST Advance Ruling Authority Rulings – with Summary (First Published October, 2019; now in 3rd edition in 3 volumes)

    10) Compendium of GST Anti-profiteering Cases (First Published- January, 2020; now in 2nd edition)

    E. Accounting/Accounting Standards

    1) Accounting Standards and Corporate Practices(First Published 1998)
    Foreword by : Mr. Ravikant , Chairman, CBDT, New Delhi
    Released by : Shri Kanwal Jit Singh, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Jaipur [Last 2nd edition]

    2) Guide to Accounting and Accounting Standards (May 2000)

    3) A Manual of Accounting Standards (September, 2000)[Last third edition]

    F. Books Authored /Edited for ICSI, New Delhi

    1) Monograph on Service Tax - Law & Procedure

    2) Monograph on Y2K: Issues and Concerns

    3) Monograph on Nomination Facility (under Companies Act)

    4) Monograph on Delisting of Securities

    5) Member's Referencer (for professionals)

    6) Monograph on Director's Responsibility Statement (under Companies Act1956)

    7) Monograph on Derivative Trading

    8) Backgrounder for Regional Conferences of ICSI/ICAI

    9) Contributed to Publication on Companies Act, 2013

    10) Edited / vetted ICAI Publications on Service Tax

    Articles authored by Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal

    Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal has authored more than 10,000 articles in last 40 years on wide varying subjects such as :

    • Corporate governance
    • Company law / LLP
    • Capital markets / SEBI
    • Insolvency laws
    • Income tax
    • Goods & Services Tax
    • Service Tax
    • Central Excise
    • Baking
    • Financial Services
    • Personal Finance
    • Professional Services
    • Management etc
    List of Books co-authored by Neha Somani

    (1)Compendium of GST Cases with Summary First Published (July, 2018; now in 6th edition)

    (2)Compendium of GST Advance Ruling Authority Rulings – with Summary (First Published October, 2019; now in 3rd edition)

    (3)Compendium of GST Anti-profiteering Cases (First Published- January, 2020; now in 2nd edition)


    Articles authored by Neha Somani

    Neha Somani has authored about 20 articles on indirect taxation / GST

    Directorships

    Dr. Sanjiv Agarwal is/ has been director in independent capacity (as an non-official / non executive / independent director) in many companies (Listed and unlisted) so far. To name a few:


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