Sobhan Kar

Sobhan is a senior adviser in transfer pricing (TP) with Deloitte India. He advises on advance pricing agreement (APA) and mutual agreement procedure (MAP) cases to achieve effective and efficient resolution.

Before joining Deloitte, Sobhan served the Indian Revenue Service for more than 21 years and was part of the Indian APA programme from its inception in 2012. He was part of the Indian competent authority team as director (APA) at the Central Board of Direct Taxes between 2014 and 2020 and negotiated bilateral APA applications and TP MAP cases with the competent authorities of North American and European countries. Sobhan also finalised numerous unilateral APA applications.

He was the Indian delegate for the OECD’s Working Party 6 on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises, the Bureau of Working Party 6, and the Forum on Tax Administration MAP Forum of the OECD from 2014 to 2020. Sobhan also assisted the Rangachary Committee, which was formed to review the taxation of development centres and the IT sector in India.