By Madhukar Hiregange A Practical Guide To GST Audits And Certifications

CA Madhukar N Hiregange, [B.Com., FCA, DISA, Passed CISA], is a senior partner at a multi-locational firm in India. He has jointly authored 23 books on Central Excise, Service Tax, Karnataka VAT and Excise/Service Tax Audit, IDT – IPCC Study Material, Central Sales Tax, GST – A Primer-2 Editions, GST Classification & Exemption 2017, Compendium of Issues and Solutions in GST – March 2018/ May 2019 and GST Tariff – October 2018. He is also working on Beginners Handbook on GST and 2 sectoral books on GST on Textiles/ Real Estate, slated to be published in November 2019. He is constantly active in spreading awareness about Indirect Taxes through seminars, articles, linkedin, facebook, youtube, caclubindia.com & hiregangeacademy.com, etc. He had been a Central Council Member, ICAI, for the term 2010-13 & 2106- 19, with a vision of enhancing the credibility of the profession and strengthening the professionals in practice and employment. He had also served as Chairman of the Indirect Tax Committee, for the year 2012 and term 2016-19, with the privilege of leading a wonderful and contributing team for 4 years.
He is actively involved in efforts to make the indirect taxation simple, certain and fair, and also in creating an awareness of the potential of knowledge in the field of indirect taxes in India. Currently focusing on making commerce graduates employable through Hiregange Academy.
He is Managing Trustee of the Empower Education Foundation and is interested in the education of lesser privileged. He firmly believes in “Value-Based Practice and Life”.

Chartered Accountant and Partner in Hiregange & Associates handling the Pune Branch office. He has performed indirect tax reviews across varied sectors and has guided clients on contracts structuring, workable business models, transactional structuring, developing systems and processes for compliance under Indirect Taxes.
He has authored a book on Indirect Taxes ‘Self study guide to Indirect Taxes’ published by Asia Law House. He is a faculty at ICAI and has given lectures at various other professional forums on Service Tax and GST. He is an active contributor of articles in GST Law Times, MCCIA, Newsletter of Pune Branch of ICAI and on other professional forums.

After graduation, Sri B S V Murthy joined Indian Revenue Service in 1979. During his career, he was part of the Project steering committee for development of risk management system in Customs and part of committees set up for considering refund system, staffing in Central Excise etc.; part of the team which developed an audit manual in collaboration with Revenue Canada; part of the Indian
delegation to Sri Lanka and Nepal. He received Presidential award for distinguished service record in the year 2005. During his career he got exposure to all areas of indirect taxes and for 7 years from 2008, he was member of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal and retired from service in 2015. He continues to be active after retirement.

He is a qualified chartered accountant qualified in the year 2011. He is a partner with a leading indirect tax practice firm in Bangalore. He has advised clients across different manufacturing and service industries on various issues under indirect taxes including reviews under GST for ensuring better compliance.
He has assisted authors of books like Central Excise Made Simple, Practical guide to Service tax in the past. He has co-authored a book ‘Goods and Service Tax’ published by Himalaya Publishing house for B.com students. An active contributor of articles to Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association (KSCAA) journal, GST Law Times etc.