Manish Saraf is a Tax Advisor Service Partner in S&B Consulting (snbconsulting.ae) UAE. He is a Chartered Accountant and has over 21 years of experience in Audit & Tax. His experience spreads over UAE Value Added Tax (VAT), UAE Corporate Tax , Governance, Process automation, documentation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s). He has worked in the Big4 consulting (Deloitte, PwC) and private sectors in UAE, Oman, West Africa, India, USA & UK.

His experience has been serving clients in different sectors of Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Engineering Services, Hospitality, Logistics, Third Party Banking Services, Facility Management, and Media Marketing.

He has experience in Corporate Tax Assessment, analyzing financial structure, transactions, and the applicability of UAE CT regulations on Free Zone Qualifying Activity and Mainland business. He has also performed VAT health check assessments for different clients in UAE.

Manish has presented on several webinars, seminars on the UAE Corporate Tax and provided updates on guidelines issued by FTA.

CA Janak Panjuani is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAI), who has been in Dubai for the past 30 years. Currently, he is a Director in Puthran Chartered Accountants, Dubai (since the year 2000). CA Janak possesses knowledge, technical skills and professional know-how in the field of Auditing, VAT, ESR, Transfer Pricing and International Taxation. He has a keen understanding of subtle aspects of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). CA Janak has served as – Treasurer of Indian Business Professional Council (IBPC) Dubai; Committee Member of Dubai Chapter of ICAI; Office bearer of various committees of Bombay Chartered Accountants Society (BCAS); Joint Convener of Study Circle Committee of the Chapter and also as the Election Office of Dubai Chapter of ICAI. CA Janak has been a speaker at many professional conferences and has written articles in professional journals as well.

CA Vishal Hurkat is a Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and residing in UAE since June 2006 and Founder and CEO of the VNY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT. He is a member of ICAI since 2006 and having over 18 plus years of Professional Experience in the field of Audit and Advisory. Previously, Vishal has worked with one of the leading Auditing firm based in UAE. During his tenure he got rich exposure with vast clientele engaged Manufacturing, Tourism, Hotels, Contracting, Pharmaceutical and Trading companies etc. He is Pro-active, result oriented and possesses strong commercial, networking and entrepreneur Skills.

Professional Affiliations and Memberships:

• Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
• Bachelor of Commerce from Saurashtra University – Gujarat-India.
• Member of ICAI Dubai Chapter
• Member of Taxation Society
• Member of Business Network International
• Seminars and Workshops attended
• Workshop on Trade Finance Organized by ICAI – Dubai Chapter.
• Workshop on Internal Audit and Risk Assessment Organized by ICAI- Dubai Chapter.
• Various workshops on corporate tax organized by Taxation Society and ICAI Dubai Chapter
• Workshop on Trade Finance organized by ICAI – Dubai Chapter
• Workshop on International Financial Reporting Standard organized by ICAI – Dubai Chapter.

CA Dixit Jain is the Founder and CEO of The Tax Experts DMCC, a leading Tax advisory services company in UAE region. The company specialises in NRI taxation and FEMA related advisory since more than a decade in this part of the world catering to over 3000 clients from middle east, USA, UK and Canada. They have been working closely with most of the Indian banks abroad and assisting the clients for their local UAE tax compliances and Indian tax compliances. He was also awarded the Tech Entrepreneur of the year by Tally MSME awards recently. He has been a regular writer with Khaleej times and Gulf news for various tax related issues. He has also been a core part of various companies in technology space one of which is valued at 70 mn USD in US. Dixit is also a founder of SnapTax which will soon be rolling out corporate tax computation software and AML and other regulatory compliance on one click.

Naveen worked at senior level roles across many organizations over his 18 plus years of experience. He begun his carrier with Price Waterhouse Coopers in Assurance division in India and the UK. Later he moved into mainstream finance with companies like Damac Properties, Drake and Scull, Al Nasr Contracting LLC. In the last 6 years Naveen has focused into Consultancy with Tax and Business Advisory being at the core including VAT Advisory and Corporate Finance. He is founding Partner of SBC Tax Consulting LLC .

Naveen’s expertise includes providing financial & business leadership, strategic consultation, and guidance, internal audits, implementing cost control measures for improvement in top- line and bottom-line, raising funds with very healthy relations with the banks in the UAE and abroad, IPO assistance possessing full knowledge of entire process of IPO, dealing with banks/lawyers/auditors/analysts etc.

Naveen is a qualified Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and an ACMA from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.