Dr. Avinash Poddar & Mr. Shailin Doshi

Dr. Avinash Poddar is a Chartered Accountant turned Advocate. He completed his Graduation from holy city of Haridwar, located in the state of Uttarakhand. Presently, he is Founder Partner in "M/s. ASHVA Legal Advisors LLP". He is based at Surat, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Delhi. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2000 and has established his firm APV & Associates. He later ventured into software development and promoted TARUN Group. In the first eight years of his practice, he primarily worked in the areas of Direct Taxation, Auditing and Software Development and Sales. Subsequently, in the year 2008 he felt that the share of service sector is increasing in the Indian Economy; and therefore, service tax has the potential of growing immensely. He therefore decided to concentrate on the field of Service Tax and Excise. He is the founding partner of M/s ASHVA Legal Advisors LLP, Attorneys and Advocates, and is practicing in the field of litigation.

Mr. Shailin Doshi is a commerce graduate having an experience of more than 10 years in Service Tax, Excise, Customs and GST. He is primarily into Departmental Adjudication and Appeals. He has mastered into handling Search & Seizure matters. He along with these is very actively involved into litigation practice with M/s ASHVA Legal Advisors LLP and take care of drafting the High Court writs and appeals. Further to this he is also advising large corporates on various Indirect Tax issues. Presently he is pursuing the Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) and Cost Accountancy

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