Enter India with clarity, not complexity.
You have questions — about ownership rules, taxes, timelines, and what could go wrong. We answer them plainly, then handle every step of your India setup from one office, so you deal with one accountable partner instead of five vendors.
- 100% foreign ownership permitted in most sectors
- One partner-led team from strategy to operations
- Serving global investors from New Delhi since 2013
The questions on your mind — answered before you ask
Every investor entering India starts with the same doubts. Pick yours; each answer links to a plain-language guide written for decision-makers, not lawyers.
Six steps from decision to a running Indian operation
This is the whole journey. Exactitude International stays accountable at every step — one team, one engagement, one point of contact.
Assess & strategise
We validate your sector's FDI position, market opportunity, location options and the structure that fits your commercial and tax goals.
Choose your entity
Wholly owned subsidiary, LLP, branch, liaison or project office, or a joint venture — chosen for liability, tax and exit, not habit.
Incorporate & register
Name reservation, SPICe+ filing, PAN, TAN and bank account. We prepare, apostille-check and file everything; you sign digitally from home.
Set up tax & licences
GST registration, import-export code, state and industry licences, and RBI reporting of your capital (FC-GPR) within the 30-day deadline.
Build operations
Accounting, payroll, hiring, office or virtual premises, and banking workflows — run by our team until you want them in-house.
Stay compliant, grow
A single annual calendar covers ROC, FEMA, GST and audit deadlines. You get management reporting a board can rely on.
The complete India package
Engage the full lifecycle or any single module. Most international clients start with entry and incorporation, then retain us for everything that follows.
Market Entry Strategy
FDI route confirmation, entity and holding-structure design, location and state-incentive analysis, financial modelling and India business plans that stand up to board scrutiny.
Entity Setup & Registration
Company, LLP, branch, liaison or project office — incorporated end to end: names, SPICe+, PAN, TAN, bank account, GST, import-export code and every licence your sector needs.
Taxation & Regulatory
Regime election and direct tax planning, GST advisory and returns, international tax and DTAA structuring, transfer pricing documentation, and representation before authorities.
Compliance & Assurance
FEMA and RBI filings, ROC secretarial work, statutory and internal audit support, ESG and governance frameworks — one calendar, monitored by a named manager.
Accounting & CFO Services
Bookkeeping on your preferred ERP, management reporting in your group format, virtual CFO oversight, valuations and transaction advisory when you raise, buy or restructure.
Human Capital & Payroll
Recruitment of your first country hires, employment contracts and policies, full payroll outsourcing with statutory remittances, and learning and development as you scale.
How an engagement works
Personalised is not a slogan; it is the process. No two India entries are the same, so no two engagements are either.
Listen
A partner hears your plan — product, market, capital, timeline — and tells you candidly what will and will not work in India.
Scope
You receive a written scope with a single all-inclusive fee, deliverables and dates. No meters, no surprise invoices.
Execute
A dedicated team runs the plan with weekly status updates. You sign digitally; we handle every authority interaction.
Operate
After launch we stay on as your finance, tax, compliance and HR back office — for as long as it serves you, and no longer.
The Doing Business in India knowledge hub
Four guides, current for 2026, covering what every foreign investor must understand. Read them in order or jump to what worries you most.
Market Entry & FDI Routes
Entity options compared, automatic vs approval route, sector caps and the Press Note 3 rule.
Read the guideCompany Registration
The SPICe+ process step by step, documents, realistic timelines and what it costs.
Read the guideCorporate Tax & GST
2026 tax rates including the 22% concessional regime, GST 2.0 slabs, DTAA and withholding.
Read the guideOngoing Compliance
FEMA, RBI, ROC, GST and payroll obligations on one calendar, with the penalties for missing them.
Read the guideThe market case is no longer a projection. It is the present.
India is the world's third-largest economy by purchasing power parity and the fastest-growing major one: 7.7% growth in FY 2025-26, with 6.4% forecast for FY 2026-27. A consuming middle class of several hundred million, a digital public infrastructure that lets you invoice, pay and file taxes online from day one, and a government that has opened most sectors to 100% foreign ownership under the automatic route, including insurance since 2026 make this the most accessible India has ever been to outside capital.
The 2025 GST reform collapsed most rates into two working slabs. Incorporation runs through a single integrated online application, SPICe+. Production-linked incentives reward manufacturers who build here. The complexity that remains is real — but it is navigable, and navigating it is our job.
- Scale: 1.4 billion people; the third-largest startup ecosystem and second-largest internet user base in the world.
- Openness: 100% FDI on the automatic route across IT, manufacturing (non-defence), renewables, infrastructure and most services.
- Simplicity: GST 2.0 (since Sept 2025) runs mainly on 5% and 18% slabs; most services are taxed at 18%.
- Incentive: GIFT City IFSC entities enjoy tax concessions extended to 2030, and production-linked incentive schemes reward manufacturers across 14 notified sectors.
- Talent: The world's second-largest pool of STEM graduates — around 2.5 million a year — and second-largest English-speaking population, at competitive cost.
One firm, accountable for the whole outcome
Most India entries fail on coordination: the lawyer, the accountant, the tax adviser and the payroll vendor each did their part, and nobody owned the result. We built Exactitude International to be the opposite of that.
Partner-led, not pooled
Business heads own their verticals. The person who scopes your engagement is the person answerable for it — with direct access, not account managers.
Glocal by design
We speak the language of international boards and the language of Indian regulators, and we translate faithfully in both directions.
Commercially optimised
Structure, tax regime and incentives are chosen for your numbers — capital plan, margin profile, repatriation needs — not from a template.
On schedule, every time
Time is treated as a critical asset. Disciplined project management keeps filings ahead of deadlines and your launch date credible.
Ethics before ease
We do what is right, not what is easy. Candour and confidentiality underpin every engagement — including telling you when India is not the answer.
One stop, truly
Strategy, incorporation, tax, accounting, audit support, HR and payroll under one engagement letter. One invoice. One accountable partner.
Tell us where you are in your India decision.
Exploring, evaluating or ready to file — a partner will respond within one business day with the specific next step for your situation.
Send an enquiry
Tell us your sector, your country and your timeline. A partner replies within one business day.
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