Quick answer
Marg Tax Advisors is a Noida, Delhi NCR practice of tax advisors and lawyers working only on business indirect tax and cross border trade: Goods and Services Tax, Customs, International Trade Law and Foreign Trade Policy. It does not file personal income tax returns, incorporate companies or do routine bookkeeping. The founder is both a Chartered Accountant and a lawyer, and the team is built the same way, so the legal argument and the costing data behind a dispute are handled together rather than split across two advisors.
The firm is led by a founder who is both a Chartered Accountant and a lawyer, which is also how the team is built, pairing legal argument with the accounting and costing data that most tax and customs disputes actually turn on.
What Kind of Tax Advisors Marg Tax Advisors Is, and Isn't
Most firms with this kind of practice also handle personal income tax returns, company incorporation and routine bookkeeping. Marg Tax Advisors does not compete on that ground.
What this firm is built for
A business's GST position defended, a customs show cause notice answered, an anti-dumping investigation before DGTR responded to, or a Foreign Trade Policy licence sorted out.
What it isn't built for
A personal ITR filed or a new private limited company registered. We would rather say so upfront than have a client find out after the first call.
That narrower focus is also the reason the advice tends to hold up under scrutiny. A GST show cause notice reply or a customs valuation dispute is rarely won on a general understanding of tax law; it is won on the specific rule, the specific notification, and the specific data behind the client's position, which is what a specialist practice spends its time on.
Our Tax Advisory Services in Delhi
As tax advisors in Delhi, we work across four practice areas:
GST Consultants
Registration and compliance, monthly return support, refund claims for exporters and inverted duty structures, show cause notice replies, departmental audit support, and appeals before adjudicating authorities and tribunals.
GST Consultants in DelhiCustoms Lawyer
Duty valuation and classification advisory, show cause notice replies, appeals through the Commissioner (Appeals) and CESTAT, MOOWR bonded warehouse registration, AEO certification support, and Special Valuation Branch proceedings for related party imports.
Customs Lawyer in DelhiInternational Trade Lawyers
Anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard duty investigations before the Directorate General of Trade Remedies, WTO compliance advisory, and free trade agreement rules of origin work.
International Trade Lawyers in DelhiForeign Trade Policy Consultants
DGFT licensing, Advance Authorisation, EPCG, RoDTEP, duty drawback claims, and SEZ or EOU compliance.
Foreign Trade Policy Consultants in DelhiCommon Situations That Bring Businesses to Us
Clients rarely come looking for a firm like ours out of general interest. Usually something specific has already happened, or is about to. These are the situations we see most often:
- A GST show cause notice has arrived and needs a reply within a set number of days, or a GST departmental audit has been initiated and the business needs to prepare for it.
- A customs valuation or classification query has turned into a full show cause notice, or goods have been held up pending an SVB review of a related party transaction.
- A domestic industry petition has triggered a DGTR anti-dumping or countervailing duty investigation, and a foreign exporter, producer or Indian importer needs to respond to the questionnaire within the deadline DGTR has set.
- A business is applying for, or already holds, a DGFT licence such as Advance Authorisation or EPCG, and needs the compliance side handled correctly so the licence is not put at risk.
- A business is about to start importing or exporting a new product line and wants the duty, classification and Foreign Trade Policy position reviewed before the first shipment moves, not after a dispute starts.
- An exporter has a GST refund claim stuck with the department, whether on account of an inverted duty structure or a zero-rated export supply, and the return, LUT and refund paperwork need to be reconciled and re-filed correctly.
How We Work: Advisory and Litigation Together
Most firms split advisory work and litigation work between different people, sometimes different firms entirely, which means a client's history and documentation have to be re-explained every time a matter escalates. Our team keeps both functions inside the same group and, in most matters, the same file. The lawyer and chartered accountant who reviewed a client's import classification before a shipment moved are the same people who draft the show cause notice reply if the department disagrees with that classification later.
That continuity matters in practice: a customs or GST dispute is easier to win when the person defending it also built the original position, rather than inheriting a file cold once litigation has already started.
Why Businesses Choose a Specialist Over a General Practice Firm
Disputes turn on specifics
A GST or customs dispute usually turns on a specific rule or notification, not a general understanding of tax law, which is where a specialist practice has an advantage over a general accounting firm handling GST as one of many services.
Law and numbers on one file
Trade remedy and customs matters need someone who reads both the legal argument and the underlying costing or dumping margin data, which is why the team pairs lawyers with chartered accountants rather than routing the two pieces of work to separate advisors.
Bandwidth when it counts
A firm that also does bookkeeping, payroll and personal tax filing for hundreds of clients has less bandwidth for a DGTR investigation with a strict filing deadline than a firm built specifically around that kind of matter.
Deadlines are the core work
Filing deadlines in this area are usually short and rarely extended, whether it is a customs show cause notice reply, a DGTR questionnaire response or a GST appeal window, so a firm that treats these matters as its core work tends to respond faster.
Who You'll Work With
Shashank Shekhar Gupta
Founder · Chartered Accountant & Lawyer
Marg Tax Advisors is led by Shashank Shekhar Gupta, founder, a Chartered Accountant and a lawyer with a post graduate diploma in tax laws from the Indian Law Institute and a PhD on the implementation of GST in India compared against VAT systems in other countries. He chairs both the International Trade Law Committee and the Goods and Services Tax Committee of the Indian Industries Association, North India's largest MSME manufacturer association.