Setting up a company
What to check before you incorporate
You're deciding how to structure and register your Indian company before you incorporate. This covers the resident-director and FDI-route decisions, who actually owns the IP you've already built, and the FEMA rules around funding the company from abroad, the items that are cheapest to get right before day one and hardest to unwind after.
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Setup & structuring
Have you confirmed your resident-director and FDI-route requirements before incorporating?
Read the full guide →Have you weighed LLP against private limited specifically on FDI eligibility and resident-partner rules?
Read the full guide →If you built the product before the company existed, have you formally assigned that IP to the company?
Read the full guide →Did your company's bank account KYC correctly identify the beneficial owner, not just the signatory?
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Ongoing compliance
If you're freelancing or consulting on India-sourced income, have you sorted out GST registration and export-of-services treatment?
Read the full guide →
Tax & transfer pricing
Do you withhold TDS on your AWS, GitHub or Slack bill, or have you documented why you don't need to?
Read the full guide →
FEMA & RBI filings
After any foreign investment into your company, have you filed FC-GPR, FC-TRS and the annual FLA return?
Read the full guide →If you've funded your own company from abroad, is it structured correctly under FEMA rather than as an informal loan?
Read the full guide →Does your founders' agreement have a buyback or exit clause? Have you checked it against FEMA's pricing rules?
Read the full guide →Does your cap table include a China or Hong Kong-linked investor? That can pull your round off the automatic FDI route.
Read the full guide →If you've raised money on a SAFE or KISS note, have you confirmed that's actually valid under Indian FEMA rules?
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Not sure which of these actually apply to you?
Tell a senior CA what your company does and its size. They'll confirm exactly which of these are live for you, on a free call.
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