Regulatory analysis, in plain language.
Our partners write about the changes that matter — new circulars, notable judgements, and shifts in how the departments actually enforce the law. No corporate marketing, no jargon.
Written by practitioners, not by marketing.
Every article on this page is drafted by a partner or senior professional at GSSK — someone who is arguing the position, filing the return, or defending the audit finding in real life. No ghostwriters. No PR agencies. No search-engine filler.
Our editorial standard is simple. If a piece does not add something a smart CFO or general counsel could not have got from reading the source document itself — a specific insight, a defensive framing, an anticipated department response — we do not publish it.
What we publish is what we would tell a client on a call, minus the client-specific facts. Nothing here is legal or accounting advice; every position must be evaluated against the specific facts of the reader's own situation, ideally with professional counsel.
Topics we track closely.
The commentary here is grouped by the domains our partners work in day-to-day. Each domain has a named editor — the partner responsible for what appears under that heading.
Direct Tax
Budget analysis, CBDT circulars, notable ITAT and High Court judgements, and shifts in departmental practice on scrutiny and appeals.
GST & Indirect Tax
Advance rulings, notifications, refund and ITC developments, and the reality of departmental audits and inspections.
Ind-AS & Financial Reporting
Standard-setter updates, EAC opinions, notable disclosures in listed-company reporting and practical Ind-AS implementation issues.
Transfer Pricing
APA developments, benchmarking practice, safe-harbour analysis and cross-border tax controversy commentary.
M&A, Valuation & FEMA
SEBI takeover regulations, FEMA circulars, share-swap and cross-border deal structuring, and Registered-Valuer practice notes.
Corporate Law & Governance
Companies Act amendments, MCA notifications, NCLT and NCLAT judgements and evolving governance expectations of listed and unlisted boards.
Four rules of the house.
Facts before opinion
Every piece opens with a precise summary of what has actually changed — statute cited, notification numbered, judgement referenced — before any interpretation is offered.
Defensible over clever
Where a position is unsettled, we say so — and explain which way the department is likely to lean. Cleverness that will not survive a scrutiny notice is not published.
Written to be re-read
Articles are structured to be revisited a year later, when the reader is actually facing the issue. Timeless framing beats topical framing.
Cited, not decorated
Every material assertion is footnoted to a section, notification, circular or judgement. No unattributed claims and no borrowed conclusions.
Beyond the blog page.
Insights are published in several formats — chosen by content, not by content-marketing calendar. If a matter deserves five hundred words, it gets five hundred; if it needs a fifteen-page technical note, it gets that instead.
Regulatory Alerts
Same-day or next-day summaries of material notifications, circulars and judgements, distributed to registered subscribers by email.
Monthly Brief
A single edited email covering the material developments of the month across direct tax, GST, corporate law and audit — with our practical view on each.
Technical Notes
Longer working papers on specific themes — Ind-AS implementation questions, TP methodology reviews, sectoral GST issues — released a few times a year.
Speaking & Sessions
Partner-led sessions at industry forums, professional bodies and client roundtables. We do not accept purely promotional speaking engagements.
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