I run a one-partner chartered accountancy firm handling statutory audit, direct tax and GST for listed mid-caps, growth-stage companies and NRIs. Every engagement passes through my desk — none are passed to juniors, none are outsourced.
About the Principal
I lead every engagement myself. The file you brief is the file I close.
I trained as a chartered accountant at KPMG India, where I cut my teeth on listed-entity audits, transfer pricing documentation and SEBI-related reporting. After five years I moved to BDO's Mumbai audit practice, deepening my exposure to mid-cap statutory work and inbound cross-border structuring.
In 2019 I set up Kavita Rahul & Co. as an independent, partner-led practice. The reason was not freedom from corporate; it was a closer relationship with the work. I wanted every opinion signed under this firm to be one I had personally read, checked, and understood — and to know the people behind the numbers I was auditing.
Today I take on a small number of engagements at a time. My clients tend to be listed mid-caps preparing for an audit cycle, founders who want a CA firm that talks to them in plain English, and NRIs who have decided they no longer want to file their Indian taxes alone.
I am a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, registered with the ICAI and empanelled with the C&AG for government audit. I write a quarterly note for clients on direct-tax and GST changes — you can read the recent ones in the Library below.
Engagements
Twelve engagements across audit, tax, GST and compliance — handled by the principal, never passed to juniors. Filter by who you are, or read across all twelve.
Audits handled end-to-end under ISA. Working papers you can hand to the next firm without re-work.
Statutory and tax-audit under the Income-tax Act, with documentation your assessor will accept.
Registrations, monthly returns, annual reconciliation, refund claims and GST audits.
Planning, opinions, assessment and representation across individual and corporate returns.
India filing, DTAA relief, FEMA compliance and property-rent matters for overseas Indians.
Private limited, LLP, OPC and foreign-entity entry — registrations and statutory kick-off.
TP documentation, benchmarking and safe-harbour certification for multinational groups.
Liaison, branch and project offices with RBI filing calendars and annual FC-3R / FC-4 returns.
Annual filings, director changes, board resolutions, ESOP and related-party transaction reporting.
Bookkeeping, MIS, payroll and monthly closes run as a remote finance team for your company.
Capital-gains planning, NRI property matters and tax-efficient investment structuring.
DRHP review, internal-control gap study, restated financials and SEBI compliance groundwork.
Where We Add Value
Not a catalogue. A short list of the work the firm is busiest on, written in the second person so you can find what you came for.
From reconciliation under Ind-AS to board-pack financial summaries, every working paper passes through the principal's desk before it leaves the firm.
We respond to scrutiny, rectification and demand notices with reasoned written submissions — and represent you before the assessing officer and CIT(A).
We set up the entity, wire the books, register for GST, file the first TDS returns and prepare for the first statutory audit — usually inside one financial year.
ESOP structuring, founder remuneration, Section 80-IAC eligibility and venture-debt covenants read alongside the books, not after.
We file ITR for rental income, capital gains on Indian property, and DTAA-claim returns for clients in Dubai, Singapore, the UK, the US and Canada.
From sale proceeds repatriation to NRO/NRE account structuring, we handle RBI-related paperwork and the Form 15CB / 15CA certification required at remittance.
Engagement Snapshots
We do not publish testimonials with client names. We do describe, in plain language, what was done and what came of it. Three of the recent ones follow.
Pre-IPO Readiness
Engagement covering gap study of internal financial controls, restatement of three prior years' Ind-AS financials, and a complete review of related-party transaction disclosures ahead of SEBI filing.
Cross-Border Filing
Reconstructed Form 26AS, filed belated ITRs with DTAA relief, secured PAN-linked refund and obtained no-demand certificate from the assessing officer.
Statutory Audit
Statutory audit under IFRS-equivalent standards with branch auditor coordination across four locations, consolidated financial statements and signed management representation letter.
Library
Memos we have written for clients on direct tax, GST, audit and NRI matters. Long-form where the question deserves it; short summaries where it does not.
Engage
Three questions, two minutes. We respond within one business day, often the same day.