India entry for foreign companies

Everything your India entity needs. One accountable partner.

Incorporation to steady-state operations — company setup, registered office, resident director, bank account, FDI routing and the full compliance calendar. Handled from Bengaluru, reported in your timezone.

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India Entry

India is not a hard place to enter. It is a hard place to stay compliant in.

The obligations are continuous, the forms are unforgiving, and the penalties are per-day. Most foreign parents get incorporated quickly — and then spend two years discovering what they missed.

The list below is what you'll need. Not what we'd like to sell you.
WHAT ENTITY NEEDS

Six things. In this order.

01

Company incorporation

Private limited, LLP or wholly-owned subsidiary. Object-clause structuring done properly the first time — amending it later is a general meeting you don't want.

02

Registered office

Compliant address under s.12. Statutory correspondence received, scanned and actioned the same day. Notices don't sit in a mailbox.

03

Resident director

section149(3) requires one director resident in India. We facilitate it with controlled authority and indemnity in place — the board keeps control.

04

Bank account

Remote digital KYC for overseas directors. Fully managed. This is the step that Usually takes three months; it doesn't have to.

05

FDI & FEMA

Inbound routing, FC-GPR / FC-TRS, RBI reporting from day one. Downstream investment compliance and compounding where the position needs repair.

06

Ongoing finance

Bookkeeping, payroll, GST, TDS, secretarial. A complete outsourced finance function, reporting to your CFO in your format.

Indicative sequence

30 Days from allotment

Indicative sequence; timelines vary by state, bank and sector approvals.

THE PATH

From signature to steady state.

WEEKS 0–2

Incorporation

Name, SPICe+, object clause settled — properly, once.

WEEKS 2-4

Entity standing

Registered office live; resident director in place with indemnity.

WEEKS 4-8

Capital lands

Bank account open on remote KYC; inbound remittance routed right.

30 Days from allotment

FC-GPR filed

The deadline everyone misses. We don't. The penalty is per-day.

ONGOING

Steady state

Monthly close, payroll, GST, TDS, ROC — reported in your timezone.

WHERE IT USAUALLY GOES WRONG

Four failures we see in almost every entity that comes to us late.

FAILURE - 01

The FC-GPR is late.

Thirty days from allotment. It is a per-day penalty and it compounds quietly until someone runs a Reg 13 check during diligence.

FAILURE - 02

The transfer pricing has no contemporaneous documentation.

The margin was agreed by the group in a spreadsheet; nobody benchmarked it. Form 3CEB is filed on an assumption. It holds until it doesn't.

Far beyond the FLA filing.

FAILURE - 03

The resident director is a nominee with no indemnity.

They have personal liability under the Act and no protection. This ends badly for someone.

FAILURE - 04

The STPI unit was registered but SOFTEX was never filed.

The export benefit was claimed anyway. Unwinding that claim is harder than filing on time would have been.

ONCE YOU'RE OPERATING

The steady-state work, handled by the same team.

Transfer pricing — Form 3CEB, ALP benchmarking, intercompany agreements that match reality.

STPI & export — registration, SOFTEX / SDF filings and the full exporter calendar.

Group reporting — US GAAP to Ind AS reconciliation, consolidation, your close calendar.

Cross-border tax — DTAA, POEM, withholding positions, Pillar Two exposure & APA support.

Payroll & people — payroll, PF / ESI, labour codes, offer letters and Form 16, end to end.

Audit readiness — statutory audit coordination, internal controls, diligence-proof records.

Setting up in India, or fixing an entity that's already here?

Either is a conversation with a partner, not a form.