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Shivam Garg

Principal Associate in the Tax Practice at the Delhi NCR office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Shivam specialises in indirect tax advisory as well as litigation, and is also actively involved in analysing the impact of the Goods and Service Tax in India. He can be reached at shivam.garg@cyrilshroff.com

FIG Paper No. 57 (VDA Series 11): India Digital Assets Round-Up: Recent Regulatory and Market Developments

Summary: This FIG Paper examines recent global regulatory and market developments in digital assets, including Hong Kong’s first stablecoin licences, countries finalising their digital assets regulatory frameworks, and BIS warnings on stablecoin-driven dollarisation. It then analyses India’s evolving response through the revised FIU-IND registration regime, tightening tax reporting and enforcement trends, and the RBI’s evolving regulatory response to stablecoins.

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Falling Tariffs & Expanding Horizons: India, US Strike a New Chord

The India-United States economic relationship has often been described as one of considerable promise, constrained by structural hesitation. For decades, the two democracies traded enthusiastically without ever creating a comprehensive framework to anchor that commerce. Now, with negotiations around an India-US Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) gaining renewed intensity, coupled with the unconventional and transactional approach adopted by the Trump administration, the conversation has shifted from whether such a pact is possible to how transformative it could be.

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Aircraft Leasing in IFSC

In our previous post we had provided a synopsis of the legal framework relating to aircraft leasing in India and Indian IFSCs. In this piece, we will provide an overview of the tax incentives offered to the aircraft leasing activities undertaken from  IFSCs located in India to achieve the dream of developing the GIFT IFSC into a global aircraft leasing hub. We have provided  a few more thoughts to ponder upon as India fuels its engines to realise its objective of ‘letting the common citizen of the country fly’ (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik).Continue Reading Part III (B): Aircraft Leasing in IFSC – Let’s kick the tires and light the fires!