The four kinds of firm that incorporate and run an Indian subsidiary for a foreign parent, compared on their own published terms, with the questions to send each before you sign.
Who files the RBI’s FLA return, when it is due, how to revise a return filed on unaudited figures, and what a late or missed return costs.
An Indian company that issues shares to a foreign investor reports the issue to the RBI on Form FC-GPR within 30 days of the allotment, with, where one is needed, a valuation certificate whose valuation date is no more than 90 days before the issue.
The 2026-27 filing calendar for a foreign-owned Indian subsidiary, regulator by regulator, with the penalty for each missed date and the dates still ahead.
For a US company hiring its first engineers in India, an employer of record and your own subsidiary compared on published fees at 5, 10, 20 and 50 people, code ownership, stock options, permanent establishment and the move between them.
The steps from the parent’s apostilled documents to the day its Indian company may trade, which of them run on an official clock, and where a set-up loses time.
What a foreign parent company provides to set up an Indian subsidiary, how each paper is legalised by the country where it is signed, and which dates and details make the Registrar send a file back.
For a US parent, setting up an Indian subsidiary means apostilles from the right US offices, the India-US treaty caps on payments home, an IRS Form 6166 for each calendar year and a check on the 2026 duty on goods.
What a foreign parent pays to set up an Indian subsidiary and run it through its first year: government fees by authorised capital, stamp duty by state, the costs a foreign parent adds and LegalJini’s fees.
Every Indian company, a foreign-owned subsidiary included, needs a director who stays in India for at least 182 days in total during the financial year, and the parent’s main risk is the time that seat stands empty.