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What are the Tax Benefit Options for Venture Capital (VC) Funds in India? How Venture Capitalists can Benefit from India Tax Rules?

Venture Capital firms, generally known as VCs are benefited by manner of tax exemptions.  Internationally, VC Funds are treated as pass through vehicles which helps to eliminate income tax at the pool level.  A pass through status is desirable for all funds because their IRR will be higher as the sale proceeds can be passed on to the investors without payment of any taxes.  The final recipient needs to pay income tax and the intermediary body is exempted.  This is to avoid double taxation of Read more [...]

Venture Capital Firms in India – Profile of India centric Venture Capital Firms and Fund Capping

Venture Capital Firms in India – Profile of India centric Venture Capital Firms and Fund Capping Indian venture capital firms being small in size a few years back have grown over a period of time. India has quite a few VC firms which are large in size, with larger number of professional employees. Venture Capital firms are experimenting with different types of businesses, and are willing to take huge risks. They invest in sectors like Internet, Ecommerce, Infrastructure, Consumer services, Mobile Read more [...]