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The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) was recently held from 26th February to 1st March. The key takeaways from the Abu Dhabi Ministerial Declaration and other Ministerial Decisions are as follows.

The Government of India has introduced the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019 on September 20, 2019 and thereby made amendments in the Income-tax Act 1961 and the Finance (No. 2) Act 2019.

Other online filing of forms was launched on the eBiz portal of the Ministry in February 2015.

Even if it is less than 10%, with or without control, equity investment by resident individuals or companies in an unlisted foreign firm will be regarded as ODI.

Recent changes in investment laws have been made by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, which regulates capital markets, in order to incentivise foreign portfolio investors to increase their investments in India.

DIPP has now also included control over inventory (as opposed to only ownership captured earlier) by the marketplace entity to determine if the business is an inventory based or a marketplace model.

The depositories and custodians shall be responsible for tracking the utilisation of the above-mentioned 3% limit for the apex companies at the end of each day.

Incorporation of a company earlier involved a two-stage process where at the first stage, the name of the proposed company was approved and then using that name, the company could be set up.

The Indian government has introduced sweeping tax exemptions on interest and capital gains from Government Securities for Foreign Institutional Investors and the Bank for International Settlements, effective retrospectively from April 2026. As the rupee plummets past the 97-mark against the US dollar and foreign portfolio investments hemorrhage approximately INR 2.5 lakh crore, these reforms aim to stabilize currency pressures and restore investor confidence in India's debt markets.

Earlier this year, the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech announced the intent to simplify the regulatory framework governing...

The MCA on 13 April 2016 notified Section 234 of the Companies Act, 2013 and the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamation) Amendment Rules, 2017 which allows the merger of a foreign company with an Indian company and vice versa.

It has been often observed that one of the basic reasons of the problems faced by foreign entities is the ambiguity in their communications and contracts.

If one were to be asked whether Dim Sum, Matador, Samurai, Kangaroo, Maple and Bull Dog share anything in common, one would be hard-pressed for an appropriate reply.

Coming full circle from Nationalization to a complete Privatization

Recently, on November 13, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India has passed a Circular A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 05 discontinuing the filing of various forms and reporting, which were until...

The condition on the investee company to bring minimum FDI of USD 5 million within 6 months of commencement of the project has been removed.

Every non-Indian entity (foreign entity) setting up operations inevitably becomes involved in the acquisition of real estate whether by lease, license, or sale.