Tapas Ruparelia
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tapas@taxstrategia.com · +91 99749 44499
CA · CS · LLB · M.Com · DISA (ICAI)

Tax counsel, fluent in technology.

I advise and litigate under GST up to the Tribunal, and I build the AI and automation that runs modern tax practices. Founder, Tax Strategia Partners, Ahmedabad.

Tapas Ruparelia
Top 4
Global AI in Tax Leaders 2026 · TaxTech500
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Years in practice
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AICA sessions for ICAI
Top 0
Global AI-in-tax · TaxTech500
GSTAT
Representation up to Tribunal

The short version

01 / ABOUT

Fifteen years at the intersection of Indian indirect tax and technology, from Big 4 litigation desks to global tax-tech products.

I am a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and lawyer. Clients come to me for advisory under GST, Foreign Trade Policy and Customs, and stay for representation: replies to show-cause notices, appeals, and litigation up to the Tribunal.

The other half of my desk is technology. I help firms and finance teams adopt Generative AI, and I automate compliance work with Python, Alteryx, KNIME and Power Query. Not proofs of concept: working systems, in production, in my own practice first.

Chartered AccountantCompany Secretary LLBM.ComDISA (ICAI)
Currently

Founder, Tax Strategia Partners

GST counsel and AI & automation consulting under one roof: advisory, litigation, trainings and implementation.

Three practices, one desk

02 / PRACTICE
[ 01 ]

GST Advisory & Litigation

Counsel-grade advisory and representation across the indirect-tax spectrum.

  • Advisory under GST, FTP & Customs
  • SCN replies, appeals, Tribunal representation
  • Due diligence & health checks
  • Briefing senior counsel
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AI, Automation & Analytics

The systems that give a practice its speed.

  • Gen AI adoption for firms & finance teams
  • Python, Alteryx & KNIME pipelines
  • Reconciliations: 2B, GSTR-9, e-invoicing
  • Dashboards & MIS that get read
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Training & Speaking

Hands-on sessions built around live tools and real files.

  • National faculty, AICA L1 & L2 (ICAI)
  • Industry batches in India and the UAE
  • ICAI & ICSI branches, industry forums
  • Gen AI, Excel & PQ, RPA, BI curricula
03 / PROOF

Proof, not promises.

Every engagement and every training runs on working systems, the same ones running in my own practice. Here is what one of them looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.

output shown is representative of a typical GSTR-2B reconciliation run

tapas@taxstrategia — recon.py

The journey

04 / CAREER
2026 — PRESENT

Founder

Tax Strategia Partners

GST counsel and AI & automation consulting under one roof: advisory, litigation, trainings and implementation.

2024 — 2026

AVP, Products

Cygnet.One

Led the India GST + global VAT and e-invoicing domain; managed a cross-functional team of 20.

2023 — 2024

VP Finance

Indevia Accounting

Automated finance operations end to end; built the dashboards and MIS the decisions ran on.

2020 — 2023

Director, IDT

K.C. Mehta & Co.

Headed the Ahmedabad IDT practice; led litigation, advisory and the firm's IDT publications.

2013 — 2020

Manager, IDT

PwC India · PwC UAE

Advisory and litigation up to CESTAT; UAE VAT implementation; set up the Middle-East VAT compliance SDC.

2011 — 2013

Manager, Finance

Tirupati Sarjan Ltd.

Headed tax, secretarial and finance; Compliance Officer reporting to the MD.

On stage

05 / SPEAKING
0+AICA sessions delivered for ICAI

Regular speaker at ICAI and ICSI branches, study circles and industry forums. Sessions are built around live tools and real files; participants leave with working automations, not just slides.

Invite me to speak
Generative AI for Professionals Prompt Engineering & AI Workflows Advanced Excel & Power Query Process Automation (RPA) Alteryx & KNIME Analytics Dashboards & BI Tax Compliance Automation AI-Driven Cost Competitiveness

Selected writing

06 / WRITING

Recognition

07 / HONOURS
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Top 4, Global AI in Tax Leaders 2026

TaxTech500
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Second Runner-up, ICAI Hackathon Season 4

ICAI · Dec 2025
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National Faculty, AICA Level 1 & 2

AI Committee, ICAI
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Special Invitee, IDT Committee

ICAI
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Engagement-letter automation utility, adopted for auditors

ICAI Recognition
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Above & Beyond, Exceptional Client Service

PwC

Have a matter, a mess,
or a machine to build?

tapas@taxstrategia.com
+91 99749 44499 Ahmedabad, India linkedin.com/in/t1r