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India taxes crypto heavily, regulates it through anti-money laundering rules rather than a licensing law, and has left most other questions to courts, banks and the tax department. That makes practical, current guidance important.
These guides cover tax and reporting, FIU-IND registration, frozen accounts and P2P trades, exchange failures, stablecoins, NFTs and inheritance, plus the cross-border position for people and businesses in Dubai, the US and the UK.
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It is polite, not threatening, but it is also very clear that the department knows something. Here is what the crypto NUDGE campaign is, how to check an email is genuine, how to respond, and what happens if you ignore it.
A large part of the engineering team at many Dubai Web3 companies is in India. The question is how to pay them, and how to own what they build. Here are the Indian rules on employment status, IP, token tax and foreign exchange.
Ask an Indian crypto trader which coin they use most and many will say USDT, not Bitcoin. That is exactly what worries the RBI. Here is how stablecoins are treated, what the rupee-backed ARC token is, and the tax and FEMA risks.
Indian founders building in crypto and Web3 often face the same choice: Dubai or GIFT City? For crypto businesses, the two aren’t really competing on the same terms. Here is how the regulators, tax, banking and Indian exposure compare.
For more than two years, India’s crypto industry has waited for the government’s discussion paper. As of April 2026 it was reportedly shelved for the fifth time. Here is what the vacuum means and which rules already apply.
Indian investors often look to Dubai for crypto: VARA-licensed exchanges, crypto-friendly banks and tokenised products. But for Indian residents it raises serious questions under foreign exchange and tax law. Here is what the LRS allows and where the Black Money Act bites.
India’s crypto investors have lived with uncertainty for a decade. In July 2026 a Reuters report said internal RBI documents lean towards prohibition. Here is what is proposed, the legal limits on any ban, and what to do now.
For many Indian crypto and Web3 founders, Dubai is the obvious place for the holding company. But if any founder is resident in India when they invest, India’s foreign exchange rules apply to every step. Here is how the structure works and where the risks sit.
For years, many DeFi founders treated the UAE as a place to build first and think about licensing later. That era ended on 16 September 2026. Here is what the deadline was, who it affects and what Indian DeFi teams should do.
Many Dubai-licensed exchanges count Indians among their biggest customer groups. A VARA licence is a significant achievement, but it doesn’t give a platform the right to serve users in India. Here is why FIU-IND registration matters and what dual compliance looks like.
An Indian trader or founder moves to Dubai for zero personal income tax and assumes India’s 30% crypto tax no longer applies. Sometimes that’s right. Often it isn’t. Here is how India’s residency rules, the deemed resident rule and the India-UAE treaty work.
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