Shri Rahul Navin, an officer of the 1993 batch of the Indian Revenue Service, hails from Bihar and possesses an outstanding academic background with a B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
He has worked for more than 30 years in the Income Tax Department and is considered an expert in International Taxation. From 2004 to 2008, he was posted in International Taxation Directorate Mumbai and was instrumental in raising tax demands on several offshore transactions where the underlying assets were in India. Later on, he worked as Commissioner Transfer Pricing from November, 2015 to November, 2017 and have supervised TP audits in several cases related to intangibles, cost contribution arrangements, royalty payments, inbound and outbound loans, commodity transactions, etc. He had two stints in the CBDT, first as Under Secretary, Tax Policy Division from July, 2000 to April, 2004 and then as Director in the Foreign Tax and Tax Research Division from April, 2011 to November, 2015. While working in the FT&TR Division, he had negotiated bilateral and multilateral agreements on Exchange of Information and had also coordinated the requests made/received under these agreements by the Income Tax Department. He had regularly attended the meetings of Financial Action Task Force, OECD, Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information and G20 as an Indian delegate and is the author of the acclaimed book “Information Exchange and Tax Transparency: Tackling Global Tax Evasion and Avoidance” (LexisNexis India, 2017).
Taking into consideration his experience in International Taxation, he was posted in November, 2019, as OSD in ED, primarily to defend India’s mutual evaluation by FATF, which was originally scheduled in 2020 but was deferred due to COVID. He was then appointed as Special Director (HQ) in November, 2020 and played a pivotal role in coordinating money laundering investigations across the country, overseeing international cooperation, treaty-based asset recovery, and key administrative, establishment, and vigilance functions.
On 15th September 2023, he assumed charge as Director (In-Charge) and was appointed as Director of Enforcement Directorate on 14th August 2024.
