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Donating to Indian NGO from UAE? No FCRA checks for NRIs
Mint Mumbai
|April 23, 2025
I was born and raised in Dubai and currently reside in the UAE, where I run my own business.
I still hold an Indian passport. I want to donate to an NGO in India, in which one of my relatives is a trustee. Do I have any tax or other reporting obligations in India?
—Name withheld on request
Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) is a legislation dealing with foreign contributions received by an Indian NGO. The two conditions to trigger the applicability of FCRA provisions are: (a) the donor must be classified as a 'foreign source'; (b) nature of funds received must qualify as a 'foreign contribution'.
This story is from the April 23, 2025 edition of Mint Mumbai.
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