Long-form guides.
Deeper than an insight, narrower than a practice page. Each guide walks through a decision most founders, NRIs or foreign companies face at least once — with the sequence, the filings, and the traps we see repeat.
The guides
India entry for foreign companies: subsidiary, FEMA & GST.
Choosing the vehicle (WOS, LLP, Branch, Project Office), incorporation sequence, FDI & FC-GPR, GST registration, and transfer pricing from day one — the practical, sequenced setup.
Read the guideIndia–US cross-border tax: DTAA, withholding, PFIC & GILTI.
Treaty positions and Section 195 withholding, 15CA/15CB certification, US-person exposure via PFIC and GILTI, and India–US transfer pricing — the full stack for Indians with US assets and US persons with Indian income.
Read the guideNRI selling property in India: TDS, Form 13 & repatriation.
How Section 195 works on the full sale price, how a Form 13 lower-deduction certificate cuts the TDS to tax on the actual gain, and the 15CA/15CB repatriation path to move the proceeds out — with a worked example.
Read the guideNRI income-tax return filing: forms, DTAA & refunds.
Who must file, ITR-2 vs ITR-3, what is taxable for a non-resident, NRE vs NRO interest, treaty claims with TRC and Form 41 (Form 10F), 26AS/AIS reconciliation, and e-verification from abroad — the refund-recovery playbook.
Read the guideIndia–UAE cross-border tax: residency, DTAA & setup.
Day-counts and deemed residency for Gulf NRIs, treaty claims with a UAE TRC, free-zone vs mainland under 9% corporate tax, ODI and round-tripping, and the RNOR window home.
Read the guideIndia–Singapore cross-border tax: holdcos, DTAA & flips.
What the 2017 treaty rewrite left standing — grandfathered gains, POEM and GAAR, the structures that still work, reverse flips, and both directions for individuals.
Read the guideIndia–UK cross-border tax: FIG regime, DTAA & returning NRIs.
The April 2025 reset — the four-year FIG window, residence-based IHT, the NRE-interest trap for UK residents, pensions and ISAs on returning home, and business both ways.
Read the guideThe PDF playbooks
Every guide above is also a designed, printable PDF playbook — the same content, formatted to forward to a co-founder, your CFO or your buyer. Leave an email and the download links unlock; you'll also get the quarterly insights note (unsubscribe anytime).
- ⬇ India Entry for Foreign Companies — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ India–US Cross-Border Tax — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ NRI Selling Property in India — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ NRI Income-Tax Return Filing — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ India–UAE Cross-Border Tax — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ India–Singapore Cross-Border Tax — the playbook (PDF)
- ⬇ India–UK Cross-Border Tax — the playbook (PDF)
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