Mr. Rajesh Kumar Bhoot is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also a seasoned officer of the Indian Revenue Service (1994 batch). With extensive experience spanning Tax Policy and Foreign Taxation divisions of the Department of Revenue, MoF, Govt. of India, he has also worked across various arms of the Income Tax Department, including International Tax, Investigation, Appeals, and Administration.

Over the past decade, he has led the direct tax policy formulation team of Government of India, playing a pivotal role in shaping the country’s fiscal policies through critical tax reforms. As Competent Authority of India, he has represented the Government of India in various bilateral and multilateral direct tax negotiations.

Currently, he heads the Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) team of the Income Tax department, which negotiates and finalizes APA to provide tax certainty to taxpayers.