FEMA (Including FCRA & FDI Policy)
- Year of Publication: 2021
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN: 978-93-90854-42-4
- No.of Pages: 1113
It gives me immense pleasure to present before the readers the third edition of the book "FEMA – a Ready Reckoner". This book will serve as a ready referencer for the Corporates, Chartered Accountants and other professionals involved, directly or indirectly, in the matters pertaining to FEMA.
This book is equipped with the following discussions spread across various Chapters:
Chapter 1 FEMA— An Introduction
Chapter 2 Non-debt Instrument — FDI, Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India and Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India
Chapter 3 Debt Instrument — Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India
Chapter 4 Foreign Investment in India — Master Directions of RBI
Chapter 5 Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India
Chapter 6 Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India
Chapter 7 Acquisition and transfer of immovable property outside India
Chapter 8 Establishment in India of a branch office or a liaison office or a project office or any other place of business
Chapter 9 Remittance of Assets
Chapter 10 Acceptance and Making of Deposits
Chapter 11 Guarantees
Chapter 12 Borrowing and lending between a person resident in India and a person resident outside India
Chapter 13 Borrowing and Lending in Rupees
Chapter 14 Borrowing or Lending in Foreign Exchange
Chapter 15 Issue of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and Ordinary Shares
Chapter 16 External Commercial Borrowings, FCCB, Trade Credits and Structured Obligations
Chapter 17 Transfer or Issue of any Foreign Security – Overseas Investments including Direct Investment by Residents in Joint Venture (JV)/Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) Abroad
Chapter 18 Current Account Transactions
Chapter 19 Capital Account Transactions 8 Preface
Chapter 20 Export of Goods and Services
Chapter 21 RBI’s instructions on Export of Goods and Services
Chapter 22 Master Circular on Import of Goods and Services
Chapter 23 Manner of Receipt from and Payment to a person Resident outside India
Chapter 24 Export and Import of Currency
Chapter 25 Possession and Retention of Foreign Currency or Foreign Coins
Chapter 26 Realisation, Repatriation and Surrender of Foreign Exchange
Chapter 27 Money Changing Activities
Chapter 28 Reporting under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
Chapter 29 Discontinuation of Returns/Reports under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
Chapter 30 Liberalised Remittance Scheme and Tax Collection at Source
Chapter 31 Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS)
Chapter 32 Other Remittance Facilities
Chapter 33 Miscellaneous
Chapter 34 Compounding of Contraventions under FEMA, 1999
Chapter 35 Authorised Person, Adjudication and Appeal
Chapter 36 Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
The FEMA, 1999; Consolidated FDI Policy; FCRA, 2010 and the FCR Rules, 2011 have been provided in the Annexures to further add value to the book.
CA. Kamal Garg is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a First Class Commerce Baccalaureate from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi. He has also qualified post qualification course on Diploma in Information System Audit (DISA) conducted by ICAI. Besides this, he is also an Insolvency Professional registered with Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). He has also qualified Certificate Course on BRSR conducted by ICAI and Social Auditor Examination conducted by NISM.
He was also the member of Board of Studies (BOS), Study Material Research Group (2009-2010) of NIRC of ICAI and a special invitee member of Accounting Standards Board (ASB) [2012-2013, 2020-2021, 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025], Financial Reporting Review Group of FRRB-ICAI [2020-2021 and 2023-2024] and Ind-AS (IFRS) Implementation Committee [2014-2015 and 2021-2022] of ICAI. He is also a technical reviewer empanelled with FRRB-ICAI. He was also nominated as a special invitee member to the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Pension (2014-2015) of NIRC of ICAI. He is also the resource person for Peer Review Board (PRB), Ethical Standards Board (ESB), Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (SRSB), Research Committee, Committee on Economic, Commercial Laws and Economic Advisory (CECLEA), Corporate Laws and Corporate Governance Committee (CLCGC) and Committee on Financial Market and Investors’ Protection (CFMIP) of ICAI. He was also nominated as member of the Expert Panel for addressing queries related to Statutory Audit pertaining to Auditing Aspects by Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) of ICAI. He has also addressed on IFRS for the members of ‘National Board of Accountants and Auditors, Tanzania, East Africa’. He has also contributed to development of study and regulatory projects undertaken by Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI under the aegis of IBBI. He has also been a resource person for training CBI Inspectors in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws. Besides being a regular guest speaker for IFRS and Management Development Programmes at various forums including ICAI and ICSI, he is also an author of over dozens of book(s) and commentaries on and including ‘IFRS and Ind AS Concepts and Applications’, ‘Audit Trail – A Practical Guide’, ‘Covid 19 – Guide to Financial Reporting and Audit’, ‘Covid 19 Guide for Businesses and Professions’, ‘Concise Commentary on Companies Act’, Company Resolutions, Notices, Meetings and Minutes’, ‘Borrowings, Loans and Investments by the Companies – Law, Accounting and Taxation’, ‘NFRA – Law and Practice’, ‘Ind AS – a Ready Reckoner’, ‘Standards on Auditing – a Practitioner’s Guide’, ‘Concise Commentary on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016’, ‘PMLA – Handbook for Reporting Entities’, ‘Series of Books on Companies Act, 2013, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’, ‘Guide to Tax Audit u/s 44AB’, ‘CARO, 2016 and 2020’, ‘Handbook on Company’s Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account under Schedule III, ‘Statutory Audit under Companies Act – a Ready Reckoner’, ‘Handbook on Internal Auditing’, ‘Consolidated Financial Statements’, 'Interim Financial Reporting', ‘Guide to International Taxation’, ‘Foreign Direct Investments in India’, Auditors’ Practice Manual’, ‘Understanding Goods and Service Tax (GST)', ‘Corporate and Allied Laws including Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’, ‘Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code - a Ready Reckoner’ published by leading publishing houses, primarily published by Bharat Law House Private Limited.
He has to his credit the contribution of ‘Gist of Accounting Standards and Auditing and Assurance Standards’ for Vol. 2 of Company Law published by BLH and various articles for NIRC and CIRC of ICAI Newsletter on FBT, MAT, US-SOX, CARO, FEMA, etc. and a series of articles on ‘Delhi Value Added Tax (DVAT) – Taxation, Accounting and Auditing Aspects’ for the Journal Tax and Corporate Referencer (TCR) including various articles on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Direct Taxes, and Foreign Investments for TCR.
He possesses a rich industry experience in the areas of Corporate Laws (like Companies Act, FEMA, Taxation, Foreign Collaborations, Joint Ventures, etc.), Audits and Management Consultancy.
Bharat is a 'trade-name' for a group of concerns, popularly known as Bharat Law House and Bharat Law House Pvt. Ltd. Bharat is one of the most reputed publishers of law books with an experience of over six decades. It possess a very diverse range of publications covering not only the area of taxation - direct and indirect - but also company law, insolvency capital market, finance, industrial law, foreign exchange, commercial, civil and criminal laws. The students publications for CA, CS, CMA, CFA, MBA, graduate and post-graduate studies have carved out a niche for themselves. The Publication House has a professionally qualified team with strong in-house capabilities. Their strength lies in the patronage of legal luminaries in every field. They strive for accuracy, authenticity and sincerity.
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- Year of Publication: 2021
- Edition: 1st
- ISBN: 978-93-90854-42-4
- No.of Pages: 1113
It gives me immense pleasure to present before the readers the third edition of the book "FEMA – a Ready Reckoner". This book will serve as a ready referencer for the Corporates, Chartered Accountants and other professionals involved, directly or indirectly, in the matters pertaining to FEMA.
This book is equipped with the following discussions spread across various Chapters:
Chapter 1 FEMA— An Introduction
Chapter 2 Non-debt Instrument — FDI, Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India and Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India
Chapter 3 Debt Instrument — Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India
Chapter 4 Foreign Investment in India — Master Directions of RBI
Chapter 5 Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India
Chapter 6 Transfer of Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India
Chapter 7 Acquisition and transfer of immovable property outside India
Chapter 8 Establishment in India of a branch office or a liaison office or a project office or any other place of business
Chapter 9 Remittance of Assets
Chapter 10 Acceptance and Making of Deposits
Chapter 11 Guarantees
Chapter 12 Borrowing and lending between a person resident in India and a person resident outside India
Chapter 13 Borrowing and Lending in Rupees
Chapter 14 Borrowing or Lending in Foreign Exchange
Chapter 15 Issue of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds and Ordinary Shares
Chapter 16 External Commercial Borrowings, FCCB, Trade Credits and Structured Obligations
Chapter 17 Transfer or Issue of any Foreign Security – Overseas Investments including Direct Investment by Residents in Joint Venture (JV)/Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) Abroad
Chapter 18 Current Account Transactions
Chapter 19 Capital Account Transactions 8 Preface
Chapter 20 Export of Goods and Services
Chapter 21 RBI’s instructions on Export of Goods and Services
Chapter 22 Master Circular on Import of Goods and Services
Chapter 23 Manner of Receipt from and Payment to a person Resident outside India
Chapter 24 Export and Import of Currency
Chapter 25 Possession and Retention of Foreign Currency or Foreign Coins
Chapter 26 Realisation, Repatriation and Surrender of Foreign Exchange
Chapter 27 Money Changing Activities
Chapter 28 Reporting under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
Chapter 29 Discontinuation of Returns/Reports under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
Chapter 30 Liberalised Remittance Scheme and Tax Collection at Source
Chapter 31 Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS)
Chapter 32 Other Remittance Facilities
Chapter 33 Miscellaneous
Chapter 34 Compounding of Contraventions under FEMA, 1999
Chapter 35 Authorised Person, Adjudication and Appeal
Chapter 36 Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010
The FEMA, 1999; Consolidated FDI Policy; FCRA, 2010 and the FCR Rules, 2011 have been provided in the Annexures to further add value to the book.
CA. Kamal Garg is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a First Class Commerce Baccalaureate from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi. He has also qualified post qualification course on Diploma in Information System Audit (DISA) conducted by ICAI. Besides this, he is also an Insolvency Professional registered with Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). He has also qualified Certificate Course on BRSR conducted by ICAI and Social Auditor Examination conducted by NISM.
He was also the member of Board of Studies (BOS), Study Material Research Group (2009-2010) of NIRC of ICAI and a special invitee member of Accounting Standards Board (ASB) [2012-2013, 2020-2021, 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025], Financial Reporting Review Group of FRRB-ICAI [2020-2021 and 2023-2024] and Ind-AS (IFRS) Implementation Committee [2014-2015 and 2021-2022] of ICAI. He is also a technical reviewer empanelled with FRRB-ICAI. He was also nominated as a special invitee member to the Committee on Banking, Insurance and Pension (2014-2015) of NIRC of ICAI. He is also the resource person for Peer Review Board (PRB), Ethical Standards Board (ESB), Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (SRSB), Research Committee, Committee on Economic, Commercial Laws and Economic Advisory (CECLEA), Corporate Laws and Corporate Governance Committee (CLCGC) and Committee on Financial Market and Investors’ Protection (CFMIP) of ICAI. He was also nominated as member of the Expert Panel for addressing queries related to Statutory Audit pertaining to Auditing Aspects by Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) of ICAI. He has also addressed on IFRS for the members of ‘National Board of Accountants and Auditors, Tanzania, East Africa’. He has also contributed to development of study and regulatory projects undertaken by Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI under the aegis of IBBI. He has also been a resource person for training CBI Inspectors in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws. Besides being a regular guest speaker for IFRS and Management Development Programmes at various forums including ICAI and ICSI, he is also an author of over dozens of book(s) and commentaries on and including ‘IFRS and Ind AS Concepts and Applications’, ‘Audit Trail – A Practical Guide’, ‘Covid 19 – Guide to Financial Reporting and Audit’, ‘Covid 19 Guide for Businesses and Professions’, ‘Concise Commentary on Companies Act’, Company Resolutions, Notices, Meetings and Minutes’, ‘Borrowings, Loans and Investments by the Companies – Law, Accounting and Taxation’, ‘NFRA – Law and Practice’, ‘Ind AS – a Ready Reckoner’, ‘Standards on Auditing – a Practitioner’s Guide’, ‘Concise Commentary on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016’, ‘PMLA – Handbook for Reporting Entities’, ‘Series of Books on Companies Act, 2013, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’, ‘Guide to Tax Audit u/s 44AB’, ‘CARO, 2016 and 2020’, ‘Handbook on Company’s Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account under Schedule III, ‘Statutory Audit under Companies Act – a Ready Reckoner’, ‘Handbook on Internal Auditing’, ‘Consolidated Financial Statements’, 'Interim Financial Reporting', ‘Guide to International Taxation’, ‘Foreign Direct Investments in India’, Auditors’ Practice Manual’, ‘Understanding Goods and Service Tax (GST)', ‘Corporate and Allied Laws including Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’, ‘Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code - a Ready Reckoner’ published by leading publishing houses, primarily published by Bharat Law House Private Limited.
He has to his credit the contribution of ‘Gist of Accounting Standards and Auditing and Assurance Standards’ for Vol. 2 of Company Law published by BLH and various articles for NIRC and CIRC of ICAI Newsletter on FBT, MAT, US-SOX, CARO, FEMA, etc. and a series of articles on ‘Delhi Value Added Tax (DVAT) – Taxation, Accounting and Auditing Aspects’ for the Journal Tax and Corporate Referencer (TCR) including various articles on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Direct Taxes, and Foreign Investments for TCR.
He possesses a rich industry experience in the areas of Corporate Laws (like Companies Act, FEMA, Taxation, Foreign Collaborations, Joint Ventures, etc.), Audits and Management Consultancy.
Bharat is a 'trade-name' for a group of concerns, popularly known as Bharat Law House and Bharat Law House Pvt. Ltd. Bharat is one of the most reputed publishers of law books with an experience of over six decades. It possess a very diverse range of publications covering not only the area of taxation - direct and indirect - but also company law, insolvency capital market, finance, industrial law, foreign exchange, commercial, civil and criminal laws. The students publications for CA, CS, CMA, CFA, MBA, graduate and post-graduate studies have carved out a niche for themselves. The Publication House has a professionally qualified team with strong in-house capabilities. Their strength lies in the patronage of legal luminaries in every field. They strive for accuracy, authenticity and sincerity.
