Hardeep Lamba

Associate Tax Director at JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Hardeep Singh Lamba is an Associate Director Taxation with Johnson & Johnson Private Limited (‘J&J’) and is based in Mumbai. Hardeep has over 14 years of experience in Taxation, comprising of Corporate taxation, Transfer Pricing, International taxation, Expat taxation, Customs, GST, Excise, Service tax and VAT.

Hardeep started his career with Ernst & Young (‘EY’) where he was assisting multiple clients on tax front towards compliances, advisory and strategy building. In EY he had an exposure to work with multiple clients in Automotive, IT and Telecom sector. Post that he worked as in-house Tax expert with Michelin India Private Limited, for all Michelin entities in India, where he has been assisting on different gamut of transactions in the entire life cycle of a product in tyre Industry. Working at Michelin a global MNC, Hardeep has a vast experience of working with different teams across the Globe on different projects and has been actively involved in Tax & Custom Projects with teams based in Singapore, Thailand, Middle East & France. In 2018 he joined Johnson & Johnson as Associate Director Taxation, heading Tax operations for J&J India & South Asia. In his current role he is responsible for defining Tax operations, work on A&D, ensuring adherence to all Tax compliances, and working across all sectors/ business teams providing legally compliant business solutions  

He is actively involved in Public speaking at various conferences and advocacy with policy makers, various work groups representing Michelin.

A brief summary of the professional experience includes:

Specialisation in Customs and Global Trade Compliance

Experience in reviewing International transactions

Expertise in representations at the Tax offices

Expertise in lobbying and representing before different public bodies.