Srinivasan Pagalthivarthi has led the Corporate Tax function at Wipro, Bangalore for over 18 years.
Popularly known as PVS, Srinivasan is a Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi. He is engaged as a corporate advisor, advising leading business houses on global taxation and matters of corporate law. He has over 30 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing and information technology with regard to corporate tax compliances across tax jurisdictions including the US, Europe, India and Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa. His expertise covers structuring requirements, cross-border mergers & acquisitions, de-mergers, and other business re-organizations, transfer pricing, taxation of IPRs, indirect taxes in India and EU VAT, social security taxes, and personal taxation. He has represented and successfully concluded complex tax assessments in USA, UK, Germany and Japan. He has secured landmark judgments on tax matters and has practical experience in advising family offices on structuring philanthropic initiatives, HNI family wealth management and inheritance tax.
PVS has participated as a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force on non-resident taxation formed by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He was appointed as a NASSCOM representative for resolving issues for the Japan tax treaty. He was nominated on the expert panel of the working group on transfer pricing and is also the chairman of the Indirect Taxation Committee of Bangalore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCIC). He was earlier the chairman of the State Taxes Committee of BCIC.
PVS has contributed many papers and is a regular speaker on international taxation issues at various prestigious forums. He was invited by Treasury Australia to participate in a group discussion at theG20 Tax Symposium in Tokyo. He has been a visiting faculty at the Direct Taxes Training Institute of the Income Tax Department, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. PVS represents various trade bodies and provides advocacy to Central and State Governments in India and Governments of foreign countries.