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India · NRI income-tax return

Your Indian return, filed from anywhere.

If you earn rent, interest, dividends, capital gains or business income in India, you have an Indian filing obligation — and you must file once your India income crosses ₹2.5 lakh before deductions. A qualified CA prepares your ITR, claims your TDS refunds, and applies DTAA relief so you are not taxed twice on the same income.

§ Who must file

First, your residential status.

Your status under the Income-tax Act — Resident, RNOR or Non-Resident — decides what India can tax. It turns on the number of days you spent in India, not on your passport or your NRE/NRO account labels. We compute it for the year before we touch a single figure.

Non-Resident (NRI)

Only your India-sourced income is taxable here — rent, capital gains, and interest earned in India. Your overseas salary stays out of the Indian net.

RNOR

A transitional status for returning NRIs. India taxes your India income plus foreign income derived from an Indian business or profession — often a valuable two-to-three-year window.

You must file if…

Your India income exceeds ₹2.5 lakh before deductions, you want a TDS refund, or you have capital gains — even where tax was already deducted at source.

§ What gets taxed

The India income that lands on your return.

As an NRI, India taxes income that arises or is received here. The common heads we file for:

Rental income

Rent from Indian property, after the standard 30% deduction and interest under Section 24 — even when the tenant has already deducted TDS.

Capital gains

Sale of property, shares or mutual funds. We handle indexation, the Section 54/54EC exemptions, and the higher TDS that buyers withhold from NRIs.

Interest & dividends

NRO interest is taxable in India; NRE and FCNR interest is generally exempt. Dividends are taxable and usually suffer TDS that we reclaim.

NRE vs NRO matters

Interest on your NRE and FCNR accounts is exempt in India, while NRO interest is fully taxable and typically has TDS deducted at 30%. Getting the account treatment right is often the difference between a refund and an overpayment.
§ Relief & refunds

Don’t get taxed twice — and get your TDS back.

Banks, tenants and buyers deduct TDS from NRIs at high flat rates, and the same income may also be taxable in your country of residence. Two mechanisms fix this, and both need to be filed correctly.

DTAA relief

India’s double-tax treaties let you claim a credit or a reduced rate. We file Form 67 and apply the right treaty article so the same income is taxed once, not twice.

TDS refunds

NRI TDS is often far higher than your actual liability. We reconcile every deduction against Form 26AS and the AIS, then claim the refund on your return.

Form 26AS & AIS

We pull your Form 26AS and Annual Information Statement so nothing is missed — and so the figures match what the department already has on file.

§ How it works

Four steps, start to filed.

  1. 1

    Tell us about your year

    A short intake: where you are tax-resident, your India income, your account types (NRE/NRO/FCNR), and any prior ITRs.
  2. 2

    Upload your documents

    Form 26AS, AIS, bank and broker statements, sale deeds and TDS certificates — securely in the portal.
  3. 3

    Your CA prepares & reviews

    An assigned CA computes your residential status, picks the correct ITR form, applies DTAA relief and exemptions, and a second reviewer checks it.
  4. 4

    You approve, we e-file

    Review the return, confirm, and we e-file with the Income Tax Department and track your refund through to credit.

Mind the deadline

The usual due date for individual returns is 31 July. A belated or revised return is possible later but with interest and reduced flexibility, and an updated return (ITR-U) only stretches so far — earlier is cheaper. Missing past years? We can fix those too.
§ Why us

CA-led, built for cross-border lives.

Every return is prepared by a qualified Indian CA who works with NRIs day in, day out — across capital gains, DTAA relief, foreign-asset disclosure and notice responses. You file from wherever you live, in one secure place, and pay only what you actually owe.