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How to pay the salaries to staff who are working in foreign for our organization? What are taxes ‎applicable to them? Kindly guide us.‎ ‎(M.C.Ramesh)‎ General Secretary ‎ Vidyaranya Bangalore

We were happy to come across your site giving helpful clarifications to various queries. The service you are thus providing is really appreciable. Thank you very much. In a clarification dated Feb 6, 2016, there was a mention that for … Continue reading →

How do we settle advances of staff in FCRA? We have a vehicle revolving fund from a FC donor, where an advance is given for vehicle to staff and they repay in installments. When we deposited in the FCRA receipt … Continue reading →

Dear Members Greetings! I would like to know the possibility of making a payment to a Foregin National (after entering into a written agreement) in Foregin currency to his foreign bank account (the account is in UK) and he will … Continue reading →

To my professional knowledge assets\immovable property acquired under fcra money in India by a charitable company could be sold only with RBI permission and could be deposited \shown in fcra account. Kindly give reply. Isaiah Sundar Singh

Considering widespread likely impact of GST, legal provisions, rules and available circulars were studied to understand its applicability for NGOs. While one cannot say that GST is applicable to GST per se, simply because there is no blanket exemption to … Continue reading →

There are cases of rejections of 80G applications on the grounds that preservation of environment including watershed, forests and wildlife does not come under charitable services. C Udayashankar  

Please suggest us if we received FC funds more than 10 Lakhs in a year. Should we file under Lokayukt? Hemal Kamat

Dear Members, Some amount of confusion exists in the minds of a few of us. We are a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 in Gujarat. Do we have to compulsorily register as a Public Charitable Trust also? … Continue reading →