Tax Salahkars handles India-side tax and compliance for foreign-owned companies — entity setup, FEMA and FDI, GST, TDS, ROC/MCA, and payroll — led by ICAI-registered Chartered Accountants. Monthly compliance retainers start from ₹40,000. We cover everything on the India side and tell you plainly where a home-country advisor is needed.
Running a company in India from abroad? The risk isn't the rules you know. It's the ones you don't.
Most foreign-owned companies aren't caught out by the compliance they're tracking. They're caught by a FEMA filing no one told them existed, a GST liability that started at the first invoice, or a rule that changed and never reached them — until a notice does.
We're your India-side team, sitting exactly where foreign companies get caught: the intersection of FEMA and the Companies Act. ICAI-registered Chartered Accountants, one clear point of contact, everything on the India side handled.
What compliance does a foreign-owned company in India actually need?
The dangerous compliance is the invisible kind.
When you run India from another country, the gaps you can see aren't the problem — you'll deal with those. It's the ones below the surface that cost the most:
Pick a Liaison Office to keep it simple, then discover it can't legally earn revenue in India. Correcting an entity mismatch later can take 6–12 months of ROC filings and RBI approvals — one US SaaS company spent over ₹18 lakh unwinding a structure it chose at registration.
Many foreign IT, SaaS, and consulting companies assume GST waits for a revenue threshold. It doesn't. Bill an Indian client without a valid GSTIN and you face penalties up to 100% of the tax due — and your client can't claim input credit, which quietly makes you the vendor they'd rather not use.
FC-GPR on share allotment, the annual FLA return to the RBI, reporting on every foreign investment — miss these and FEMA penalties can reach three times the amount involved. Ignorance isn't a defence.
Miss PF, ESI, or professional-tax registrations and the exposure doesn't stop at the company — it reaches directors personally, with retrospective assessments and interest, and can even affect an expat director's future India visa.
India's tax and FDI rules shift often. Without someone India-side watching, you find out when the notice arrives, with interest already stacked on.
None of these announce themselves. That's the gap we close: someone whose actual job is to know what you're supposed to be doing — before it becomes a problem.
What we handle
Everything on the India side of your business — setup through ongoing.
- ✓Entity selection advice (Private Limited, LLP, Branch, or Liaison Office) before you're locked in.
- ✓Incorporation, PAN, TAN, GST registration, bank account opening.
- ✓FDI structuring and the FEMA/RBI filings foreign ownership triggers.
- ✓Monthly GST filing and reconciliation.
- ✓TDS deduction, deposit, and quarterly returns.
- ✓ROC/MCA annual and event-based compliance.
- ✓Payroll and statutory compliance (PF, ESI, professional tax).
- ✓FEMA, FDI reporting (FC-GPR, FLA), and repatriation planning.
- ✓DTAA and cross-border tax advisory.
Take it all as one monthly retainer, or just the piece you need right now.
Why cross-border companies choose us
Built for exactly your situation — not adapted to it.
Most Indian CA firms are excellent at domestic compliance and out of their depth the moment FEMA, FDI, or a foreign director enters the picture. That intersection is our core. We've spent years on the cross-border side — entity setups, FEMA and FDI compliance, repatriation, treaty questions — for foreign-owned and NRI-founded companies, serving 2,000+ clients across 14 countries.
- ✓ICAI-registered Chartered Accountants leading every engagement.
- ✓Genuine FEMA + Companies Act depth — the exact intersection where foreign companies get caught.
- ✓One point of contact — a named person who has your file, not a ticket queue.
- ✓Built for the time difference — async-first, so work happens on India hours and updates reach you when you wake up.
- ✓Tools you can check yourself — our India tax and compliance calculators are open and free, so you can sanity-check any number, any time.
How we work with you
One point of contact. Your timezone. Your documents, always yours.
A named point of contact for your engagement — you'll always know who's handling your file and how to reach them.
We respond within one business day, in your timezone — no chasing across a time difference.
Your documents are handled securely and confidentially — shared through a private, confidential channel, accessed only by the team on your engagement.
No lock-in. Your filings and records are always yours. If you ever choose to leave, we hand everything over cleanly — we earn your business each month, we don't trap it.
What we don't do
What we handle, and what we'll tell you to get elsewhere.
We handle everything on the India side — cleanly, thoroughly, on the record.
We are not your home-country tax advisor. If you're a US-owned company, your US filings and the US-side treatment of your India entity need a US CPA — we'll say so plainly and work alongside whoever handles that side, rather than pretend to cover it. Knowing exactly where our lane ends is part of doing this properly.
How engagement starts
It starts with a scoping call — no obligation.
Tell us where you're incorporated, what stage you're at, and what's worrying you.
You get a clear picture of what applies to you — and whether anything is currently exposed.
A scoped monthly retainer, or individual services. No hourly surprises, no vague “end-to-end.”
You focus on the business. We handle every India filing, deadline, and rule change — quietly, on time.
Pricing
Clear, flat, scoped to your business.
Cross-border compliance retainers start from ₹40,000/month, covering the India-side compliance stack for a foreign-owned company.
The exact figure depends on your entity type, transaction volume, and headcount — which is what the scoping call is for. No hidden fees, no per-email billing. You'll know the number before you commit.
We work best with foreign-owned companies serious about getting India right — not the cheapest possible filing. If that's you, the call is worth fifteen minutes.
Not sure what applies to you? That's exactly why the call exists.
Every month of unaddressed exposure is another month of interest and penalty risk quietly accruing. Fifteen minutes on a call is cheaper than one missed FEMA filing.
Tell us your situation — we'll tell you honestly what your India-side obligations are, and whether you even need us.
India compliance guidance current as of July 2026. Rules change — we track them so you don't have to.