Sanjiv Agarwal, M.Com, FCA, FCS, ACIS (UK), aged 57, is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) and a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) besides being an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administration, London (UK). He is also a post-graduate in Accountancy and Business Statistics from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has been awarded Doctorate of Philosophy for the title “A Conceptual Approach to Corporate Governance: Preparation for Global Interface” from R.A. Poddar Institute of Management, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and Diploma in Corporate Governance (PMQ) from the ICSI.
Dr. Agarwal has over three decades of professional experience as a practicing chartered accountant with vast exposure in Service Tax, GST, corporate laws, corporate governance and financial services. He has to his credit a large number of published articles in various professional journals, websites and economic dailies on various subjects including Service Tax, GST, corporate laws and corporate governance.
He has so far authored/edited over 25 books and some of his popular books include:
• Service Tax Case Digest,
• Guide to Goods and Services Tax (January 2016),
• A Handbook of Service Tax: Law, Practice and Procedures,
• Treatise on Service Tax,
• Guide to Service Tax,
• Accounting Standards and Corporate Practices,
• Guide to Accounting and Accounting Standards,
• Manual of Accounting Standards,
• Commentary on the Companies Act, 1956,
• Audit Committee and Corporate Governance,
• A Complete Guide to GST: Ready Reckoner in Q&A format. (November, 2016) etc.
Additionally, Mr. Agarwal has been running a weekly e-newsletter named Service Tax Counsellor on Service Tax since 1999 and another fortnightly e-newsletter on Goods and Services Tax (GST) named GST Counsellor, since July 2015. He has been the founder editor of Service Tax Journal, India’s first exclusive journal on Service Tax and has co-edited Current Taxcom News (a weekly tax journal). He regularly writes on indirect taxes including GST for professional journals of ICAI, ICSI, Excise Law Times, Service Tax Review, Business Advisor, www.taxmanagementindia.com, wwwtaxguru.com and other professional/economic journals etc.
He is an active participant and speaker/faculty at National and Regional Seminars and Conferences on various professional topics organized by ICAI, ICSI, ICWAI and Apex Chambers. He is also a visiting faculty at various Management Institutes and Banks. He has addressed a large number of conferences, seminars/webinars including in-house training sessions on service tax, GST and other topics for Central/State Governments, PSUs, ICAI/ ICSI/corporate houses etc. His workshops/master classes on Service Tax and GST are popular amongst professionals and corporate executives. Central Government (now MCA) had nominated him as member on the Working Group constituted for suggesting changes in Companies Act to implement good Corporate Governance in 2002-03. He has been a member of Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) constituted by the ICSI for four terms and has been a member of Indirect Tax Committee of ICAI in 2009-10. He is presently a member of Expert Advisory Board and Core Group on GST constituted by the ICSI.
He is also actively associated with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, various apex level Chambers of Commerce and Industries and Stock Exchanges. He has been a SEBI nominated director on the Board of Jaipur Stock Exchange Ltd. And JSEL Securities Ltd. And an independent director on the Board of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (a SBI Group Bank) and other companies. He is presently an independent director on the Board of few public sector/government/private sector companies. He is one of the founders of Corporate Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a corporate training organisation.