One of the major changes in the Finance Act, 2020 (‘FA, 2020’) is with respect to amendments in residential status criteria, which directly impacts the Non Resident Individual (NRI) community. Various news articles had spread wrong stories wherein they had stated that new amendments in FA 2020 will affect the taxation of salary received by […]
In India, the status of tax residency of an individual is determined based on his number of days of stay in India during a financial year. Every year, various Non-Resident Individuals (‘NRI’) visit India to manage their family affairs/investment in India. Such individuals plan their stay in India in a manner that they remain non-resident in India for tax purposes.
Foreign equity investments in an Indian company are bound by the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 (‘Rules’) and Foreign Direct Investment (‘FDI’) policy issued by the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce and Industry respectively (together referred as ‘Government’). As per the said Rules, non-resident entities can invest in Indian company subject […]
