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Moving to Dubai, or incorporating in the UAE, rarely ends a person’s or a business’s Indian legal exposure. Indian tax residency, foreign exchange rules, anti-money laundering registration, and property and succession law can all still apply to Indians in Dubai and to platforms that serve Indian users.
These guides explain the Indian-law side of those questions in plain terms, from crypto tax and Schedule FA disclosure to FIU-IND registration, overseas investment, NRI property, powers of attorney and enforcing Dubai judgments in India. UAE-law points are flagged for confirmation with UAE-licensed counsel, because Halverton & Co. is an Indian law firm and does not advise on UAE law.
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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.
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.
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.
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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