Is NRI brokerage income taxed in India?

I am an NRI based in the UAE and work in real estate brokerage.

- Harshal Bhuta

Recently, I helped a UAE-based friend sell his property in India through my contacts to another NRI. He paid my brokerage fee from the sale proceeds credited to his NRO account. I didn’t visit India for this deal. Is this income taxable in India? —Name withheld on requestI assume you qualify as a nonresident under Indian income tax law. For an NRI, taxation in India is limited to income received or deemed to be received in India, or income that accrues or arises or is deemed to accrue or arise in India. From an accrual perspective, income is regarded as arising where services are performed. In your case, the brokerage services were rendered entirely from the UAE, without your physical presence in India. Accordingly, such incom