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Govt excludes overseas credit card spends from LRS in a mid-night notification

The finance ministry finally on midnight Friday amended foreign exchange management rules to exclude international credit card spends from the purview of liberalised remittance scheme…

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Confusion persists on post-Oct 1 TCS regime

New Delhi: Confusion persists over the applicability of TCS (tax collected at source) up to 20% from October 1 on foreign remittances through international credit…

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The new Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, which was notified last month on May 16, deleted a section that exempted credit card payments from the LRS.
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Confusion on LRS tweak days before rollout; junk it: Experts

With the July 1 deadline for its controversial tax on international credit card spends looming, the government is still working on knotty issues to evolve…

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Earlier, the usage of international credit cards (ICCs) for making payments for fulfilling expenses during travel outside India was not included in the LRS limit.(Representative image)
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Credit card spends outside India will attract 20% TCS: How users may be impacted

Spending in foreign exchange through international credit cards will be covered under the Reserve Bank of India’s liberalised remittance scheme (LRS), under which a resident…

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