The India desk

India sits beside Canada and the US here, not underneath: its own form library, situations, treaty pages and pricing.

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What is on this page

109 pages in this section. India sits beside Canada and the US here, not underneath: its own form library, situations, treaty pages and pricing.

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Every page in this section is written to the same standard: it opens with the block that exists nowhere else on the site — a threshold, a treaty article, a rule that applies to one group and not the one beside it — and it carries one worked example, worked through in full rather than a set of generalities.

Where a page needs a statutory threshold, a rate or a day-count, that figure is verified against the issuing authority before it ships. Where it cannot be verified for the year in question, the page states the mechanism and quotes no number, because a wrong threshold on a page like this is worse than no page at all. Every statutory page also carries the name of the person who reviewed it and the date they did.

Fees are fixed and agreed in writing before any work begins, and you review the finished work before it is filed. Documents move through a secure portal and you can meet us at any of our offices, so where you are makes no difference to how it works.

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  • We will tell you when you do not need us, and that call is free.
  • A named reviewer signs off every statutory filing.
  • Nothing is filed until you have read it.

Reviewed for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. General guidance only. Your own facts decide the answer, so bring them to a call before relying on this.

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What does the The India desk section cover?

109 pages. India sits beside Canada and the US here, not underneath: its own form library, situations, treaty pages and pricing. Each one opens with the part that applies to that situation and nowhere else — a threshold, a treaty article, a filing that one group owes and the group beside it does not — and works one example through in full.

How are fees set for the India desk?

The fee is fixed and agreed in writing before any work begins, priced from the documents you send rather than estimated afterwards, and it does not move once accepted. You see the finished work and approve it before anything is filed.

Who checks the work before it is filed?

A named adviser reviews every return and every information filing before it goes out, and the statutory pages on this site carry the name of the person who reviewed them and the date they did it. You approve the finished work yourself as the last step.

How do I get a quote for the India desk?

Send what you have — a return, a notice, a set of statements, in whatever state it is in — through the secure portal after the first call, and you get a written fixed fee back. Or call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068 and we will tell you what is needed.

Fixed fee agreed before we start

Let us take the India desk off your desk

Describe what happened and which countries are involved; the fee comes back in writing before anything begins.

  • Your existing accountant keeps the domestic file
  • Offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE
  • Re-quoted, never silently invoiced

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

We say early if it is not our work

If a file needs something this practice does not do, you hear that at the start rather than after a bill.

The reporting penalties get named early

The heaviest exposure on a cross-border file is usually a disclosure form, not the tax. We identify which ones apply before a deadline turns into a penalty.

Filed with the authority, not just prepared

The engagement runs to submission and to the correspondence that follows it, including the queries that arrive months later.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

Two of the firm’s advisers at the glass desk in the Delhi office
The firm’s founder at his desk in the Delhi office

How the work runs — quote first, then the work

  • Step 1: Start with a conversation about the facts – Dates, residence, where the income arose. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to know what applies.
  • Step 2: Scope and price, both written down – You get the scope and the fixed fee together, so there is no question later about what was included.
  • Step 3: Prepared by one team, reviewed by a named practitioner – The same people see both sides of the file, and the reviewer signs their name to it.
  • Step 4: Filed, then followed through – Submission is not the end of the engagement — the queries that arrive afterwards are part of it.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Where to go next

Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.

Core services for this situation

Form RC199 — voluntary disclosure application Everything on rc199 voluntary disclosure application, at the same depth as this page.
Annual compliance calendar design Annual compliance calendar design — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Corporate emigration from Canada The full guide to corporate emigration from Canada, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Deemed disposition on death Its own page: deemed disposition on death — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Management fee study Everything on management fee study, at the same depth as this page.
Form RC1 — business number registration Rc1 business number registration — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Pre-immigration tax planning The full guide to pre-immigration tax planning, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Moving crypto to a low-tax country Its own page: moving crypto to a low-tax country — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
GST/HST simplified registration — for non-residents Everything on GST HST simplified registration non-resident, at the same depth as this page.

Clients who arrive with this exact page

Tax for lawyers & in-house counsel Everything on lawyers & in-house counsel tax, at the same depth as this page.
Cross-border truck drivers — what we charge Cross-border truck drivers what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax for corporate & charter pilots The full guide to corporate & charter pilots tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Team-sport athletes — relief you're probably missing Its own page: team-sport athletes relief you're probably missing — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Individuals & families abroad cross-border tax Everything on individuals & families abroad cross border tax, at the same depth as this page.
Nurses working abroad — relief you're probably missing Nurses working abroad relief you're probably missing — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax for mining engineers & geologists The full guide to mining engineers & geologists tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Non-resident landlords — what you owe in each country Its own page: non-resident landlords what you owe in each country — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Technology & SaaS — relief you're probably missing Everything on technology & saas relief you're probably missing, at the same depth as this page.

The corridors we work every week

Singapore tax for expats — country guide Everything on Singapore tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
Qatar tax for expats — country guide Qatar tax for expats — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Ecuador tax for expats — country guide The full guide to ecuador tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Costa Rica tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Costa Rica tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Ghana tax for expats — country guide Everything on Ghana tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.
US–Mexico tax corridor US Mexico tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Germany tax for expats — country guide The full guide to Germany tax for expats, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Taiwan tax for expats — country guide Its own page: Taiwan tax for expats — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Czechia tax for expats — country guide Everything on czechia tax for expats, at the same depth as this page.

What these engagements turn on

Case study 1

Three Account Types, Three Tax Answers

Interest on each is treated differently and the deduction at source follows the account rather than the person. Holding the wrong one for the purpose is a recurring and avoidable cost.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

An NRI Selling Indian Property With Tax Withheld on the Price

Withholding on a sale by a non-resident is applied to the sale value rather than to the gain, so it routinely exceeds the tax due. A lower-deduction certificate obtained before completion avoids locking the difference up until a return is assessed.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Options Granted in India and Exercised Elsewhere

Where the grant, the vesting and the exercise happen in different countries, each may claim part of the same gain. Apportioning it across the period worked is what prevents the whole amount being taxed twice.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

Inheriting Property in India While Living Abroad

India does not tax the inheritance itself, but the later sale and the money leaving the country both have positions of their own. The file establishes the cost base to use on that sale and what the remittance will require.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

The Two-Year Window After Returning to India

Returning residents pass through a transitional status in which foreign income is largely outside the Indian net. The engagement establishes when the window opens and closes, and puts the transactions that benefit inside it.

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Case study 6

Ten Years of Missed Returns Filed as One Engagement

Filing many years at once is a sequencing problem: carry-forwards, instalments and credits from the earliest year feed the latest. Filing them out of order is what turns a recoverable position into an assessed one.

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Case study 7

Expanding Abroad — Branch or Subsidiary, Decided on the Numbers

The choice sets the tax on profits, the treatment of early losses, and what it costs to take money home later. The file models all three across the first years rather than deciding on the incorporation cost alone.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

An Assignment Priced Without Counting the Days

Nearly every relief in a mobility file — treaty exemption, residence, social security — is decided by a day count that has to be evidenced. The engagement puts the tracking in place at the start, because it cannot be reconstructed at the end.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.

One coordinating team: filings on every side of the border are sequenced so treaty relief and foreign tax credits are claimed once — and in the right country.

U.S. & Cross-Border Tax Returns

Dual filers: U.S. citizens in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income run two parallel systems — we prepare both, in the right order, every year.

Expat & Emigration Tax

The move year is its own project: the elections and valuations filed that year decide the next decade of both countries’ returns.

Non-Resident Canadian Tax

Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

Documentation prepared with the return is the cheapest insurance in international tax; reconstructing it during an audit is the most expensive.

Cross-Border Estates & Trusts

Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

Expansion raises the same four questions every time — entity, PE, repatriation, payroll. We answer them before the tax authorities do.

India Tax for NRIs & Returning Residents

The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.

Canadian Tax with a Foreign Element

Residency is decided on facts, not on a form — and the year you arrive or leave is the one where the largest amounts turn on the smallest details.

UAE Tax for Expats & Their Home Country

A zero-tax country is only half the answer — the question that decides the bill is whether the country you came from still treats you as resident.

Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
Professional Services Firms
Cross-Border Real Estate
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
Investment Funds & Holding Companies

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces

Cross-border tax for sellers shipping worldwide: marketplace withholding, foreign registrations and inventory nexus handled before they become audits.

Marketplaces withhold, remit and report in their own right, so the tax position of a single sale is decided by where the stock sat, where the buyer was and which platform collected — not by where the company is registered. We reconcile the platform's own filings against the returns before either is submitted.

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces

Technology & SaaS

  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS

Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing

Athletes, Artists & Entertainers

  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers

Remote Workers & Digital Nomads

  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers

Investment Funds & Holding Companies

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

Our practitioners are alumni of leading accounting and tax institutions

Where our partners studied — CPA Canada (In-Depth Tax Program), AICPA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

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