Find your stage.
Thirty pages of practices, guides and tools, organised by where you are — not by what they're called. Pick the stage below and jump straight to the practice, the guide, or the calculator built for it.
1 · Before you enter India
Choosing a vehicle, registering it, and surviving the first 90 days — whether you're a foreign company setting up a subsidiary or a captive centre.
Choosing a structure, registering, first 90 days.
PracticeSetting up a captive centre, not a subsidiary.
GuideWOS, LLP, Branch or Project Office — incorporation sequence, FDI, FC-GPR, GST and transfer pricing from day one.
ToolCost and timeline calculator for the entry route you pick.
2 · Structuring & fundraising
Cap table, ESOP pool, term sheet — and, for many, the decision to move the holding company offshore before the round closes.
3 · Running & scaling
Monthly close, compliance calendar, and the founder's own personal tax as the company grows underneath them.
Monthly close, board packs, runway tracking.
PracticeESOP exercise, secondary sales, residency and cross-border filings — for founders personally.
PracticeBookkeeping and accounting run end-to-end, not just reviewed.
ToolQuarterly instalments, computed correctly.
4 · Cross-border & NRI
Two threads end up here: a group with entities in more than one country, and an NRI with income, property or a return to India to plan around.
By corridor
Double taxation, treaty relief, DTAA filings.
GuideDTAA, 15CA/15CB, PFIC, GILTI, transfer pricing.
GuideFIG regime, residence-based IHT, the NRE-interest trap.
GuideResidency day-counts, UAE TRC, free zone vs mainland.
GuideThe 2017 treaty rewrite, grandfathered gains, reverse flips.
ToolTreaty withholding rate by country and income type.
NRI-specific
The NRI-specific practice, separate from resident tax.
GuideWhich ITR form, which schedules, common mistakes.
GuideSection 195 TDS, Form 13, and repatriation.
ToolResidency test for returning NRIs.
ToolTax on the sale of Indian shares, property or funds.
ToolSection 195 TDS on a property sale, and the Form 13 alternative.
ToolTax collected at source on money moving out of India.
5 · Exit, M&A & valuation
Selling the company, a registered-valuer report for FEMA or Income Tax, or working out what tax is actually due on the gain.
Advising a VC or an incubator instead of a founder? Those are separate practices, not a stage.
Also useful
All guides → · the same long-form guides, as a flat list.
Insights → · shorter, more frequent — one specific question per note.
Glossary → · 105 cross-border tax, FEMA and startup terms in plain English.
Case studies → · three anonymised end-to-end engagements.