Vikas Prajapati

CEO

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in financial investigations of tax evasion
Led teams in high-stakes search and survey actions
Strong background in cross-agency coordination

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Financial Services professional with expertise in tax investigations and compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial Crimes Investigations

About

An officer from the 2016 batch of the Indian Revenue Service, currently serving as Deputy Commissioner in Ahmedabad, having extensive experience in financial investigations of income tax evasion and undisclosed foreign income/assets. My favourite leisure activities include bird watching and photography.

Experience

11 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Indian revenue service - income tax

6 roles

Joint Commissioner of Income Tax

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos

Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax

Sep 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

Deputy Director of Income Tax (Investigation)

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Financial Investigation relating to Income Tax Evasion and Undisclosed Foreign Income/Assets
Leading the teams for Search and Survey actions on suspected tax evaders
Coordination with other Law Enforcement Agencies for gathering intelligence on offenders

Financial Crimes Investigations

Assistant Director of Income Tax (Investigation)

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Serving in the Headquarters of Investigation Directorate, Ahmedabad

Financial Crimes Investigations

Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax

May 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Assessing Officer of businesses located in part of Ahmedabad city. Role involved:
Assessment and Investigation of tax returns selected for scrutiny
Recovery of due taxes, including tax arrears, advance tax, etc.

Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax (Under Training)

Dec 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

- 16-months training programme at NADT, Nagpur, including On Job Training (OJT) stints at Vadodara and Ahmedabad, and an International training module in The Hague, Paris and Zurich.

Indian forest service (ifs) - government of india

Probationer

Dec 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr · Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India

Secured All India Rank-12 in Indian Forest Service Examination-2014 conducted by UPSC
Allotted Himachal Pradesh cadre
Attended 1-year training at Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun

Monitor deloitte (ex monitor group)

Analyst

Jul 2012 – May 2013 · 10 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Worked for PSI, a global health organization, on the 3SI (Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements) project for strengthening sanitation supply chain in rural Bihar, funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Case work involved primary and secondary research (customers & value chain), sector expert interviews, customer segmentation, landscape and ecosystem mapping, business model designing, pilot planning, and extensive onsite travelling.

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2011 – May 2012 · 10 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Served as Teaching Assistant to Prof. Anshul Kumar (Dept of Computer Sc. & Engg) for two Postgraduate level courses in Computer Architecture, namely:
a. Synthesis of Digital Systems (Fall semester)
b. Architecture of High Performance Computers (Spring semester)

Microsoft research

Research Intern

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developing & Deploying A User-Friendly Front-End for Amazon MTurk
Research Question: To study the feasibility of MTurk as a supplemental source of income for lower classes of society
Developed and deployed a web application with simplified user interface for less computer-literate people