Prashant Kumar Thakur was born in Sitamadhi district of Bihar and was brought up in Dhanbad from where he completed graduation from P.K.Roy Memorial College.His ancestral place is Village Hansopur ...view morePrashant Kumar Thakur was born in Sitamadhi district of Bihar and was brought up in Dhanbad from where he completed graduation from P.K.Roy Memorial College.His ancestral place is Village Hansopur in Samastipur district.He started his career as a reporter with a regional English newspaper The New Republic , but quit the job after two years. In 1993, he joined Income Tax Department and took voluntary retirement from the department effective from 01/10/2013.He is visiting faculty to National Direct Tax Academy where he is being invited since 2008. The recent visit was on 8th to 10th July 2013 for taking up sessions on Taxation of Merger & De-merger cases and other topics for batch of newly promoted Assistant Commissioners of Income Tax.He has also been invited for taking up sessions in Direct Tax Regional Training Institute situated at Kolkata,Chennai, Banglore,Lucknow and Pune.He is passionate about tax laws , writes books ,desires to blog on it,fascinated about internet and mobile technology .He is living in Kolkata , India with his parents , his better half -Alka and two lovely kids-Nishant & Sonali.view less