Both sides of the corridor,
structured to align.

The India-US Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) is a treaty that prevents the same income from being taxed fully in both India and the US. Combined with the foreign tax credit, it determines how income earned across the corridor is taxed and credited. Applied correctly, it stops you from overpaying; ignored, you can end up taxed twice. We build your structure around the treaty rather than filing each side in isolation.

Transfer pricing is the set of rules governing the prices charged between related entities — for example, when your India company provides engineering or services to your US company. Both countries require those prices to be at 'arm's length' (what unrelated parties would charge) and documented. If you have any intercompany transactions across the corridor, transfer pricing applies, and getting it wrong invites adjustments and penalties.

FEMA (the Foreign Exchange Management Act) and the Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) rules govern how Indian residents can invest in or fund a foreign entity. When you own or capitalize a US company from India, these rules require specific reporting to the RBI. Non-compliance on the India side can undermine an otherwise sound US structure, so we keep FEMA/ODI aligned as part of structuring.

Potentially, if the structure isn't planned. The DTAA and foreign tax credit exist precisely to prevent full double taxation, but they only help when applied correctly — claiming treaty benefits, crediting taxes paid, and managing withholding. We coordinate both sides so the same income isn't taxed twice and your overall rate is what it should be.

A permanent establishment is a taxable presence one country can assert when your business has enough activity there — for example, a team that habitually concludes contracts. Creating a PE by accident can expose you to tax and filings in a country you didn't intend. We review where your people work and how you contract so PE risk is planned around, not discovered later.

Closely. Whether you run a US-parent/India-subsidiary structure or a flip, and how equity is held, drives your treaty position, transfer pricing, and FEMA obligations. Tax structuring and ownership structuring have to be designed together — which is why the same team handles both, so the cap table and the tax position never contradict each other.

Ideally before significant intercompany activity, funding flows, or a US raise — because the cleanest structure is the one set deliberately at the start. That said, existing structures can be reviewed and corrected; if your corridor has grown organically, a structure review often finds both compliance gaps and overpaid tax worth fixing.

Yes. The point of corridor structuring is that one team owns both sides — US tax and the India-side FEMA/ODI and transfer pricing — so the treaty position, documentation, and filings are consistent. You're not coordinating a US CPA and an India CA who never talk to each other.