About India Company Setup

Big 4 expertise.
Independent firm.
Built for your scale.

India Company Setup was built on a simple premise: the best international tax advisory should not be reserved for companies that can afford Big 4 fees. We bring 18+ years of combined experience — a team of Chartered Accountants, Company Secretaries, and accountants, Ex-KPMG led — to mid-market foreign companies entering India.

18+
Years of experience
100+
Companies incorporated
5
Continents
0
TP audits lost
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Pankaj Gupta

Senior Advisor, India Company Setup
Managing Partner, PGA & Co. CA

Chartered Accountant (CA) — ICAI
Diploma in International Taxation — ICAI
18+ years experience
100+ companies incorporated in India
USA · UK · UAE · Singapore · Australia
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Leads a team of CAs, Company Secretaries, and accountants. Ex-KPMG Chandigarh — International Tax & Advisory practice. 18+ years of experience in India incorporations and international tax.

Our Story

Why we built India Company Setup

After building a team with 18+ years of combined experience — CAs, Company Secretaries, and accountants — and having set up 100+ companies in India including foreign companies, one pattern became impossible to ignore: the mid-market was being failed.

Foreign companies with 50–500 employees trying to set up in India had two choices: pay Big 4 fees their business case couldn't justify, or rely on local CA firms with no meaningful international tax experience. Neither was good enough.

Getting the transfer pricing structure wrong creates years of audit exposure. Getting FEMA wrong creates penalties up to 3× the transaction value. Getting the DTAA analysis wrong means overpaying withholding tax on every dividend — often indefinitely.

India Company Setup was built to serve the foreign companies that can't afford Big 4 fees but can't afford Big 4 mistakes either.

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"The companies that get India right don't necessarily have the biggest budgets. They have the right advisor at the right moment."

— Pankaj Gupta, Managing Partner

Career Timeline
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CA Qualification — ICAI
Qualified as a Chartered Accountant from ICAI — the gold standard professional qualification for accounting and tax in India.
Foundation
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KPMG India — Big 4 Experience
8 years at KPMG's International Tax & Advisory practice advising large multinationals on India entry, transfer pricing, DTAA, and FEMA across USA, UK, UAE, Singapore, Japan, and Europe.
Big 4 Experience
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Founded PGA & Co. CA
Established PGA & Co. Chartered Accountants to serve the domestic Indian market — GST, income tax, audit, and compliance for Indian businesses, HNIs, and NRIs. Concurrently pursued LLB.
Domestic CA Practice
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Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Completed LLB alongside founding PGA & Co. — bringing legal depth to corporate structuring, contractual advisory, and regulatory compliance work.
Legal Foundation
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Diploma in International Taxation
Post-qualification specialisation from ICAI covering DTAA interpretation, OECD BEPS framework, transfer pricing methodologies, FEMA, and cross-border structuring. Combined with LLB for full legal-tax advisory capability.
ICAI Specialisation
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India Company Setup — Launched
Dedicated advisory platform for foreign companies entering India. KPMG-trained international tax expertise with deep domestic compliance capability — one firm for the full journey.
Active · Expanding
How We Work

Principles that define every engagement

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Structure Before Filing

We design the tax and legal structure before a single document is filed. Transfer pricing model before incorporation. DTAA analysis before the first intercompany payment.

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Integrated Advisory

DTAA, transfer pricing, and FEMA are treated as one picture — not three separate workstreams. Getting one wrong affects the others.

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Documentation That Defends

Every document is written to survive audit scrutiny — not to meet a minimum compliance threshold.

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Plain English — Always

CEOs and CFOs should understand their India tax position without jargon. We translate technical positions into clear commercial language.

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Senior Attention — Always

Every engagement is led by our senior CA, supported by a dedicated team of CAs, a Company Secretary, and accountants. Full team depth — senior attention always.

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Long-term Partnership

Most clients start with an incorporation engagement and stay on retainer for years. We are built for the full India journey.

Knowledge Partner

The domestic CA firm behind India Company Setup

India Company Setup is powered by PGA & Co. Chartered Accountants — a full-service CA firm based in Chandigarh. While ICS handles the international layer, PGA & Co. manages the domestic compliance engine.

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Knowledge Partner

PGA & Co.

Chartered Accountants · Chandigarh · Pan-India

GST registration, filing, audit & advisory
Income & corporate tax — ITR, advance tax
Statutory audit & assurance
Company incorporation & MCA compliance
Payroll — TDS, PF, ESI, professional tax
NRI & HNI tax advisory
Transfer pricing — Form 3CEB
Startup services — DPIIT, ESOP
SCO 18, Top Floor, Sector 20-D, Chandigarh 160020
+91 86998 87200 · info@pgaca.in