The team
The people who do the work
Pathak Associates is Sanjay Pathak's proprietorship — a tax consultant with 30 years of experience who has personally handled more than 10,000 clients. Work that requires a chartered accountant is done by the CAs the firm employs and partners with, and every engagement is assigned to a named person.
Sanjay Pathak
Founder and Principal Consultant
Sanjay Pathak · Tax consultant · 30 years
Sanjay Pathak has spent thirty years in tax practice and founded Pathak Associates in 2000. The firm is his proprietorship, and it grew the way practices in Ranchi actually grow — one filing at a time, on people telling other people that their return was handled properly.
He has personally handled more than 10,000 clients. A large share of that work is the part most people never plan for: income-tax notices, scrutiny assessments and appeals. A notice is not a form to be filled in. It is a position that has to be understood, documented and argued, and it is the work he is known for.
The firm employs and partners with chartered accountants, who carry out the work that requires a CA — audit, certification and the filings reserved to them. Pathak Associates itself is a tax consultancy, not a CA firm, and this page says so plainly because the difference is a regulated one.
How the team is put together
Tax consultants
Preparing returns, GST filings, drafting replies to notices and answering your questions. This is the day-to-day work, and your file is assigned to one of them by name.
Chartered accountants
Audit, certification and the filings reserved to them. Carried out by the chartered accountants the firm employs and partners with.
Documents and coordination
Checklists, checking what has been uploaded, and making sure nothing sits waiting while a deadline moves closer.
Your file belongs to one person
Every engagement is assigned to one person, and their name is on your file in the portal. That does not mean nobody else touches it — a CA does the audit, someone else chases the documents — but there is one name to ask, rather than a general line where you explain your situation again to whoever answers.
When a notice arrives, it goes to the person who did the filing, because they know what position was taken that year and why. That is the reason notice work on our own filings is part of the engagement rather than a separate service sold later.
How big the firm is
It is a small firm, and deliberately so. Twenty-five years of growth came from people telling other people their return had been handled properly, not from advertising — and that kind of growth moves at the speed the work can actually be done well.
Stated plainly
Where we sit
Head Office
302, Modi Heights, Ratu RoadRanchi, Jharkhand 834005
Branch Office
Tower-B, B1135, Block A, iThum, Sector 62Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201309