NRI income tax return filing in India — remote, correct, refund-recovered

Who needs to file

• You have India-sourced income above the basic exemption (rent, interest, dividends, capital gains, salary).
• TDS was deducted at source and you want to claim a refund.
• You sold property, shares, mutual funds or crypto in India.
• You want to claim DTAA relief / Form 67 foreign tax credit.
• You want to remit funds abroad (Form 15CB requires a filed / filable position).

Residential status — the first question

Section 6 defines residency by days spent in India across the current year and the previous four. Get this wrong and the whole return is wrong — Resident and Ordinarily Resident (ROR) taxpayers report worldwide income; Non-Residents (NR) report only India-sourced income. We work this out before we touch the return. The 2020 amendment introduced a Resident but Not Ordinarily Resident (RNOR) category for high-income Indian citizens spending 120–182 days in India — worth checking against your travel record.

Foreign income & DTAA

If you are a Non-Resident, foreign income is generally outside India's tax net. If you are ROR, worldwide income is taxable in India — with credit for tax paid abroad under the DTAA, claimed via Form 67. We compute the credit correctly (not just the tax paid, but the tax paid on that specific income stream) so you don't leave credit on the table or trigger a mismatch notice.

Our remote process

1. 1

   Kickoff call — residency, income streams, refund exposure.

2. 2

   Secure document upload (bank statements, TDS certificates, cap-gains reports).

3. 3

   Draft computation shared for your review before filing.

4. 4

   Form 67 filed (if DTAA credit is claimed).

5. 5

   ITR filed & acknowledgement shared. E-verification via net banking / Aadhaar OTP / EVC.

6. 6

   Refund tracking until credited to your NRO / NRE account.

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