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Learn How To Make Direct Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India

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..... Learn How To Make Direct Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India - By: - Sumit Arora - FEMA - Foreign Exchange Management - Dated:- 17-8-2015 - - After hearing enough rambling on FDI s and its urgent need to stop Indian rupee fall, one is very curious to know about FDI and trying to understand what qualifies as FDI and what routes are available for them to invest in our country. Foreign Dir .....

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..... ect Investment ( FDI ) FDI as the name suggests, it is an investment directly made by a foreign company into business in another country. Such investment could be either in the form of business expansion in another country or could be a result of buyout of the company. Direct Foreign investments in India were introduced by the then Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in 1991 under Fore .....

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..... ign Exchange Management Act to promote such investments thereby increasing supply of domestic capital increase the economic growth. As per Foreign Exchange Management Act , FDI means investment by non-resident entity/person resident outside India in the capital of an Indian company under Schedule 1 of Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident Outside .....

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..... India) Regulations 2000 . Description: http://www.marketexpress.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/marketexpress-fdi-education-series-equity-inflows.gif In India, foreign investments can be made through any of the following methods: Incorporate a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) or a company Result of merger or an acquisition of an unrelated enterprise Acquire shares in an associa .....

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..... ted enterprise Participate in an equity joint venture with another investor or enterprise Who can invest in India? A Non-resident entity means a person resident outside India Non Resident Indian or Person of Indian Origin (PIO holder) or Overseas Citizen of India (OCI holder) A body corporate means a company incorporated outside India Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) m .....

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..... eans an entity established or incorporated outside India which proposes to make investment in India and which is registered as a FII in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (Foreign Institutional Investor) Regulations 1995. Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI) means an investor incorporated and established outside India, which is registered under the Securities a .....

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..... nd Exchange Board of India Description: http://www.marketexpress.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/marketexpress-fdi-education-series-sectors.gif ENTRY ROUTES FOR INVESTMENTS There are two important routes specified by Government of India through which an investor can apply for FDI. These are Automatic route and Government approval route . Automatic route means Non Resident en .....

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..... tities can invest in the capital of resident entities without the prior approval of Government i.e. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance or Department of Industrial Policy Promotion, as the case may be. Some of the major sectors in which Automatic route is permitted: Agriculture, mining, petroleum and natural gas, manufacturing, inf .....

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..... ormation services, trading, e-commerce activities. The investment percentage under Automatic route is permitted depending upon the nature of business. Government approval route means that investment in the capital of resident entities by non-resident entities can be made only with the prior approval of Government i.e. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB ), Department of Economic Affai .....

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..... rs (DEA), Ministry of Finance or Department of Industrial Policy Promotion, as the case may be. The sectors which are not covered under automatic route shall require approval of Government before any investment. For more information on Taxes and Foreign Investment in India (FDI) Please feel free to send query to us by visiting link Account outsourcing companies in India - - Scholarly ar .....

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