Blog
Every article is on this page.
See them allBlog
Notes from
practice.
One question at a time, taken further than a guide page can.
The notes
Investing · 7 min read
GIFT City: what it offers an NRI
A patch of Gandhinagar the law treats as outside India. What is really on offer, and which half of the pitch survives the rule.
Tax · 6 min read
Residential status for seafarers
A merchant navy seafarer is not living in another country. There is a rule written for exactly that — and a certificate that proves it.
Banking · 10 min read
Remitting money to India
Four ways in, three accounts it can land in, and the reason a transfer can arrive in full and still not count as money from abroad.
Tax · 7 min read
NRI, RNOR or ROR?
Income tax gives you three statuses, not two. The middle one — RNOR — is the reason a returning NRI can often keep foreign income out of the Indian net for a year or two.
Banking · 6 min read
NRE, NRO or FCNR(B)?
Pick by where the money came from and where it must go next — not by the interest rate. The rate is the last question, not the first.
What are you stuck on?
Most of what is worth writing about starts as somebody's actual problem — a bank that would not explain itself, a form nobody could name, a rule that seems to say two things at once.
If that is where you are, tell us. The pieces that get written are the ones people ask for.
Something you would like written up?
If the same question keeps coming back, it belongs here.