Exchange Control Risk related to new Income Tax Disclosure Scheme

  • Category: FEMA
  • Date: 02-07-2026
  • Writers: CA Shilpi Jain, CA Stephanie Mendonza

Published in TaxTMI https://www.taxtmi.com/article/detailed?id=15991

Budget 2026 introduced a new Foreign Assets Disclosure Scheme (‘Scheme’) providing an option to individual taxpayers to regularise previous non-disclosures of foreign assets and income arising therefrom. Suo-moto disclosure of undisclosed foreign income and foreign assets up to ?5 crore and cases involving reporting lapses is permitted, in situations where income has already been offered to tax but the corresponding...

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Foreign Assets Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS 2026): Income Tax Relief vs FEMA Risks - What Every Individual Must Know Before Disclosure

  • Category: FEMA
  • Date: 02-07-2026
  • Writers: CA Shilpi Jain, CA Stephanie Mendonza

Published in May’26 edition of The Bombay Chartered Accountant Journal

The Union Budget 2026 introduced a one-time Foreign Assets Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS 2026) to provide a compliance window to individual taxpayers for regularising past non-disclosures of overseas income and assets. The scheme permits voluntary disclosure of undisclosed foreign income and foreign assets up to ?5 crore and cases involving mere reporting lapses, where income has already been offered to tax in India...

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Acquiring Immovable Property Outside India by Resident Individuals

  • Category: FEMA
  • Date: 04-06-2026
  • Writers: CA Harshitha Sajja, CA Shilpi Jain