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Technical learning journeys for professionals

For professional learning and capability building, ready to use today

Source-led on the Income-tax Act, 2025 and latest applicable laws

  • Interactive
  • Practice and assessment
  • LMS-ready

For new professionals

A clear learning loop

On their own

  • Collating sections, circulars and articles
  • Reading without a sequence
  • Unsure what applies to the case in hand

With a journey

  • Source-backed in one place, nothing to collate
  • Structured one step at a time
  • Asynchronous at their own pace
Leading toConfidence and independence at work

How every journey works

Learn it, then use it

  1. Learn the subjectConcepts in plain language
  2. Work a real caseFacts drawn from practice
  3. Make the callA choice at every turn
  4. See the consequenceWhere each choice leads

Catalogue

The journeys

New professionalsFoundations in the right order
Experienced professionalsRefreshed under the new Act
Firms and L&D teamsOne standard, across the team
Basics of Income TaxFoundations under the Income-tax Act, 2025For New professionals, articles and newly qualified CAs and lawyers entering tax

Covers

  • Charge of tax and the tax year
  • Residence and scope of total income
  • The five heads of income
  • Deductions and set-off of losses
  • Rates, returns and the 1961 transition
Capital GainsAssets, holding periods, computation and reliefsFor Direct-tax teams, transaction-tax professionals and M&A teams

Covers

  • What is a capital asset
  • What counts as a transfer
  • Short term and long term
  • Cost, improvement and the previous owner
  • Value rules, reliefs and losses
International TaxationSource rules, withholding and cross-border structuresFor International-tax, direct-tax and transaction-advisory teams

Covers

  • Residence and scope of charge
  • Income deemed to accrue in India
  • Business connection and significant economic presence
  • Indirect transfer of Indian assets
  • Royalty, technical services, withholding
Foreign Investors and DTAAsTreaty access, income articles and reportingFor International-tax teams and advisers to foreign investors

Covers

  • How a treaty applies alongside the Act
  • Residence, tax residency certificate and Form 10F
  • Permanent establishment
  • Dividend, interest, royalty and technical services articles
  • Capital gains articles, anti-abuse, reporting
Mergers and DemergersDefinitions, scheme mechanics, tax and accountingFor M&A tax, restructuring and corporate-law teams

Covers

  • Statutory definitions of amalgamation and demerger
  • Scheme route under the Companies Act, 2013
  • Fast-track and tribunal routes
  • Tax treatment for the companies and the shareholders
  • Losses, accounting and stamp duty
FEMAEntry routes, pricing, borrowings and reportingFor FEMA, regulatory, M&A and finance teams

Covers

  • Structure of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
  • Automatic and government routes, sectoral caps
  • Pricing guidelines on issue and transfer
  • Deferred consideration and escrow
  • Borrowings, outbound investment, reporting
Share Transfers and SPAStructure, consideration, conditions and closingFor Transaction-tax teams, M&A professionals and corporate lawyers

Covers

  • How the transaction is structured
  • Tax on the seller and withholding by the buyer
  • Foreign exchange conditions on the transfer
  • Pricing and valuation support
  • Reading the agreement through to closing

In the build

  • Buyback of shares
  • Capital reduction
  • Joint development agreements
  • and more

Built on the fundamentals Advanced layers are built to each organisation's needs

Learning examples

Try the learning

Pick a case, make each call and see where it leads

Foreign investment FDI Pricing Three decisions. See whether the price holds Open

Step 1 of 3

Who is buying from whom?

Illustrative learning example

International taxation Indirect Transfer An offshore sale, tested gate by gate. See where India’s charge stops Open
Foreign seller
Foreign holding companyTotal assets ₹30 crore
Indian company₹18 crore of the value

Gate 1 of 3

Drag to set the value of the Indian assets

1More than ₹10 crore₹18 crore

Illustrative learning example

Capital gains Capital Gains Advisory Case Three calls a CA or lawyer has to get right. Watch the tax move with each one Open

Case facts · Kavita Shah

Unlisted shares, a gift from her father2019
Father’s cost₹18 lakh
Agreed sale price₹42 lakh
Fair market value on transfer₹47 lakh
New flat bought after the sale₹50 lakh

Tax working

Full value of consideration?
Cost of acquisition?
Long-term capital gain?
Relief for the new flat?
Taxable gain?

Call 1 of 3

Kavita paid nothing for the shares. What is her cost?

Illustrative learning example

Restructuring Merger or Demerger Pick the objective, change one fact, see whether the definition is met Open
Alpha Pvt LtdTwo business divisions
Beta Pvt LtdSame promoter group

Step 1 of 2

What does the business want to do?

Illustrative learning example

Examples are illustrative, not advice. Names and figures are invented. Statutory text is quoted verbatim, current as prepared

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CA Raksha Kuthnikar

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