Practice 06 · Ask before · Cross-border Transactions
Where small errors become expensive. Every position written down.
Cross-border tax structuring, DTAA analysis, withholding-tax certifications, transfer pricing and taxation of non-residents under the Income-tax Act, 2025.
A quiet, document-first practice. Every non-routine position is written down before it is taken, every certificate carries its reasoning, every transfer-pricing file traces back to real comparables.
- A remittance abroad that needs a certificate this week.
- A related-party transaction with a foreign group company.
- An NRI or foreign national with India income and three different answers on how it is taxed.
- A notice that questions a position nobody documented.
A position that was never written down cannot be defended. Withholding applied at the wrong rate becomes the payer’s liability; a transfer-pricing file cloned from a template fails at the first scrutiny.
- DTAADecision-tree analysis for foreign remittances: residence article, beneficial ownership, MFN clause where applicable, TRC requirements. A written memo your CFO can hand to the assurance team or the tax authority.
- CertificationsWithholding-tax certificates for outbound remittances under the Income-tax Act, 2025, with the analysis documented, same day to three days.
- Transfer pricingStudy and documentation on real comparables and your actual transaction profile: benchmarking, master file, local file, CbCR where applicable.
- Non-residentsWhat is taxable, repatriation routes (NRO, NRE, FCNR), surcharge and cess interplay, worked alongside the FEMA team so the tax and regulatory answers match.
- Tax memo for every non-routine position.
- Certifications with reasoning attached.
- Transfer-pricing study and documentation.
- One cross-border file where tax and FEMA agree.
Questions
Asked before the first call.
How fast can you issue a withholding certificate?
Same day where the documents are complete; up to three days where a treaty position needs a memo.
Is your work updated for the Income-tax Act, 2025?
Yes. All advisory reflects the new code, not legacy section numbers.
Do you do transfer pricing for small groups?
Yes. A two-entity group with one related-party transaction still needs a defensible file; it is simply a shorter one.
What about FEMA?
It sits in the same practice. See Cross-border Transactions, FEMA.
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