The American Chamber of Commerce in India (AMCHAM) and USIBC had organized
“Union Budget 2010-Interactive Session” on March 03, 2010 at New Delhi

Mr. T. P. Chopra, Chairman, AMCHAM India, & National Executive, GE India, welcomed the participants and made his opening observations. Mr. Atul Dhawan, Chairman AMCHAM’s Tax & Tariff Committee, and Partner, Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, made his Presentation on “Economic and Policy Measures announced in the Budget”

Presentation on “The Budget Impact - Direct Tax Proposals” by Mr. Vishal Malhotra, Tax Partner, Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd.

Presentation on “Key indirect tax proposals of Budget 2010” by Mr. Pratik Jain, Executive Director, KPMG

Presentation on “Sectoral Analysis of Budget Proposals” by Mr. R. Muralidharan, Executive Director-Tax and Regulatory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.

Presentation was also made by Mr. Roopak Saha, Tax manager, GE India and Mr. Amit Rana Vice – President Tax, GE India and keynote address by Mr. Sunil Mitra, Revenue Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GOI. This was followed by a Panel Discussion.

The Panelists were Mr. S.S.N. Moorthy, Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Mr. V. Sridhar, Chairman, Central Board of Excise & Customs, Mr. Y.G. Parande, Member (Budget), Central Board of Excise & Customs, Mr. Ashutosh Dikshit, Joint Secretary, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Mr. Sunil Gupta, Joint Secretary, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Mr. Gautam Bhattacharya, Joint Secretary – TRU-II, Central Board of Excise & Customs and Mr. Vivek Johri, Joint Secretary – TRU-I, Central Board of Excise & Customs.