An NRI’s Indian tax depends first on residential status for the year, then on which Indian-source incomes are taxable, and then on whether a DTAA reduces the rate or allows a foreign-tax credit. Filing the resident form, or skipping the return because tax was deducted, is the usual source of later notices.
We determine status, file the correct ITR, claim DTAA relief where the treaty and the documents support it, and keep the working papers that a bank or a buyer’s counsel will ask for on a property sale. Property transactions are scoped separately for TDS, the lower-deduction certificate, and the capital-gains computation.
Planning covers investments that will still be held after a return to India, repatriation paths, and the exemptions that remain available to a non-resident. FEMA questions that sit next to the tax filing are flagged so they are not left to the bank at the last day.