Indian Subsidiary Registration

Incorporation runs through SPICe+ on the MCA portal, exactly as for a domestically owned private company. MCA fees are the ordinary ones — nil registration fee up to ₹15,00,000 authorised capital under rule 38(2), State stamp duty on the memorandum and articles, PAN ₹66 and TAN ₹65. Foreign ownership adds a FEMA layer on top; it does not change the company-law regime underneath.

The FEMA side runs through the Single Master Form on RBI's FIRMS platform. Per RBI's Master Direction on Reporting under FEMA, Form FC-GPR must be filed not later than thirty days from the date of issue of the equity instruments — note the clock starts at allotment, not at receipt of the money, which is the sequencing most setups get wrong. Form FC-TRS, for a transfer of equity instruments between a person resident outside India and a person resident in India, is due within sixty days of the transfer or of receipt or remittance of funds, whichever is earlier. And the annual FLA return is due on or before 15 July every year the investment remains — reckoned April to March, filed on RBI's FLAIR portal.

Late FEMA reporting is priced by RBI's uniform Late Submission Fee matrix. For returns that capture flows — FC-GPR and FC-TRS among them — it is ₹7,500 plus 0.025% × A × n, where A is the amount involved and n is the delay in years rounded up to the nearest month. For returns that do not capture flows, such as the FLA return, it is a flat ₹7,500. LSF is charged per return, is capped at 100% of the amount involved, and the facility is available for up to three years from the due date. A large capital infusion reported years late is expensive precisely because A is the whole investment.

On sector FDI caps we state the framework and stop. Entry routes, sectoral caps and pricing guidelines are prescribed by the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019, and they change by amendment and press note. We confirm your sector's current position as part of the engagement rather than publishing a percentage that may be out of date. We prepare and review the MCA and RBI filings and submit through the official portals — we cannot guarantee approvals and we make no claim of private API access.