PARTHA ROY, Kolkata: Direct Tax Professionals are playing critically important role in nation building and is going to play very important role in Bharat ‘ s Viksit Bharat @2047 journey.
Direct Tax Professionals’ Association( DTPA ) established on 28th August in 1982 organised it Annual conference of 2025 on 23rd August 2025 at Taj Bengal Kolkata Currently, DTPA has more 2000 members who are Chartered Accountant ( CA ) , Company Secretary ( CS) , Advocate .CA Barkha Aggarwal informed the theme of the conference ” Tax , Tech, & Transformation – Redefining Professional Excellence. ” On sidelines, its founder General Secretary and Chairman Media Relations Committee Adv. Narayan Jain emphasized on ever growing role of Direct Tax Professionals , it’s contribution in revenue generation across the country by creating healthy understanding of Tax laws amongst Tax payers as well as it’s contribution on nation building.
Padma Shri Sajjan Bhajanka an industrialist graced the conference as Chief Guest. Shri Sajjan Bhajanka emphasized role of Direct Tax Professionals in nation building by creating healthy understanding of Financial Tax laws of the country amongst Tax Payers and potential Tax payers. Shri Sajjan Bhajanka appreciated Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ‘s recent announcement of people friendly GST including reduction of GST in certain items to be implemented in the country . Shri Sajjan Bhajanka also appreciated Government of India ‘ s effort to simplify Income Tax Act . 1961 replacing it with Income Tax Act 2025. Shri Sajjan Bhajanka also spoke on expanding role of Tax professionals in implementation of ESG to create healthy sustainable environment , and society as well as planet Earth.CA S .K. Sultania briefed the august gathering about Technical Sessions including session on Benami , Income Tax, Black Money & BNS – Interplay of Income Tax with Allied laws.Adv( CA ) Ashwani Taneja ex- Member,ITAT spoke on Benami , Income Tax, Black Money & BNS – Interplay of Income Tax with Allied laws. Adv Ashwani Taneja emphasized India is entering into a new era of Tax laws interpretation and implementation. Both Tax Professionals’ and Taxpayers have to be careful about Technical issues and substantive issues while interpretating Tax laws.
Shri Ashwani Taneja also stressed on the fact that technology is going to play critically important role in various Direct Taxes implementation. Advocate Shri Sujit Ghosh spoke on Penalty and Prosecution under GST -A Legal & Practical Perspective . CA Rohit Pradhan from Jaipur addressed session on Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, and Automation – The new frontier for Finance professionals .CA Vijay Srinivas Kothapalli from Hyderabad spoke on Future Proof Your Finance career – Tech ,AI , Cyber Risk Advisory in 2025. Fireside chat was organised on “From Balance Sheet to Botnets – The Expanding Battlefield of the Modern Finance Professionals with speakers CA Rohit Pradhan and CA V.S. Kothapalli which was moderated by CA Sanjib Sanghi.
CA Shyam Agarwal delivered vote of thanks as well as organised very engaging quiz for the delegates at DTPA Annual Conference with Shri Bharat Sarawgee Cyber crime law specialist. On sidelines, CA Nilima Joshi spoke on efforts of Central and State Governments in upgrading various financial laws to promote “Ease of Doing Business ” including promoting MSME sector and women empowerment.The conference provided opportunity to Direct Tax Professionals from across the country to interact and deliberate on wide range of tax related issues and their implementation without compromising integrity and ethics.
Conference participants appreciated role of Advocate Narayan Jain as guiding spirit and his contribution since the formation of DTPA.Smt. Manjulata Shukla Sr. Vice President, Mahendra Agarwal, Vice President ,Sujit Sultania – Treasurer informed about participation of more than 480 delegates in the conference . Large no.of DTPA members played important role various ways in making Annual Conference successful.