Indian tax and compliance, from the UK
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For decades a non-domiciled UK resident could elect the remittance basis and keep foreign income outside UK tax unless it was brought in. That regime ended in April 2025. In its place is a four-year foreign income and gains rule for people newly arriving after a period of non-residence — generous while it lasts, and then it stops.
For Indians in the UK the practical effect is direct. Indian rental income, Indian interest and Indian capital gains that were previously left offshore now come into charge once the window closes, whether or not the money is ever remitted.
The India–UK treaty allocates the taxing rights and gives credit for tax paid on the other side. As always the relief depends on filing it properly in both places, and on the UK tax year running April to April against India's April to March — close enough to look aligned and far enough apart to break a credit claim.
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Tax Station — India
Anything under the Income-tax Act, FEMA or the Companies Act. Your Indian return, treaty relief, remittance certificates, and an Indian company if you need one. Our work, our fee, published on each service page.
Anything filed in the UK
Your UK return, and anything filed with the authorities there, needs an adviser licensed in the UK. We do not hold that licence and will not pretend to. What we will do is make sure the Indian position we take fits the one they take, and speak to them directly where the two have to line up.
We say this up front because it decides who is answerable if something goes wrong. One point of contact, two firms, and you should know which is which before you engage either.
Where it goes wrong
What catches people in the UK
The four-year window has an end date
The new regime is time-limited by design. Planning built on it working indefinitely fails on a known date, and the year it fails is the year Indian income becomes fully visible to HMRC.
NRE interest is exempt in India and taxable in the UK
Same trap as everywhere else the Indian exemption is mistaken for a universal one. No Indian tax paid means no credit available, so the UK charge lands in full.
Indian property gains computed twice, differently
India allows indexation on long-term property gains; the UK computes its own gain on its own basis. The numbers rarely match, and only the overlap attracts credit. Where the UK gain is larger, the excess is simply UK tax.
Inheritance tax reaches Indian assets
UK inheritance tax follows long-term residence rather than where the asset sits. Indian property and Indian investments can fall within the UK estate for someone who has lived there long enough, and India has no equivalent tax to credit against it.
Treaty relief needs the paperwork before the year closes
A residency certificate and Form 10F are what make the Indian side of a treaty claim work. Applying for them after an Indian notice arrives is too late for the year in question.
Returning to India brings UK pensions into view
UK pension pots, ISAs and workplace schemes have to be disclosed in Schedule FA once you are an Indian resident, and the Indian treatment of a UK pension is not the same as the UK's. It is worth answering before the first Indian return, not after.
Before you act on this
Residency tests, treaty relief and reporting thresholds change on both sides of the border, and the two countries' tax years rarely align. This explains the position in general terms and is not advice on your facts. Check the current rule, or ask us, before you act on it.
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