Mr. SOMESH ARORA
Advocate & Chief Consulting Officer
[B.Com, LL.B., LL.M (Intellectual Property Rights-University of Queensland, Australia), C.A.I.I.B. DLL&LA]

A distinguished Indian Revenue Service Officer with exposure of more than 25 years in various organizations in the Government of India, especially in the Ministry of Finance (as Commissioner of Customs, Excise and Service Tax and Departmental Representative in Customs, Excise and Service Tax Tribunal), Ministry of Commerce (as Deputy Commissioner in Noida SEZ), Ministry of Textile and Ministry of Labour (as Provident Fund Commissioner).
Besides, he has enough corporate exposure having worked as Executive Director of Wool & Woollens Export Promotion Council and as Sr. Vice President- Head of Taxation & Export Import of Reliance Group Company operating as a Special Economic Zone Developer.
He has worked in various Premier Investigating Agencies (as Zonal Head of Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence and in Economic Intelligence Bureau) and has successfully conducted some of the leading Service Tax, Customs, Excise and FEMA investigations.
He started his legal career in 2009 and also took to fiscal and legal journalism in a big way publishing about 500 articles in legal and tax journals and mainstream print media. Getting published four books and answering legal queries in GSTLaw Times for the last 4 years as consulting editor. He has been a budget commentator on electronic media for last 20 years. Indian Advocate Forum feels privileged in putting up such enriched and endowed with knowledge person , as the Head of Editorial Board.