Export benefits · SEZ compliance · ESOP taxation
Technology businesses operate under a compliance framework that looks quite different from a traditional business, and we've built our practice around that difference. For companies operating under STPI or SEZ schemes, our STPI/SEZ compliance work covers the export documentation these schemes require, alongside the specific GST treatment of software exports and OIDAR services that trips up many first-time exporters — LUT filing, the place-of-supply tests that determine whether a service genuinely qualifies as a zero-rated export, and the refund process when it does.
As technology teams grow, equity compensation becomes central to hiring — our ESOP design, valuation and perquisite tax work handles that end to end, while our transfer pricing practice manages the group-company billing arrangements common in captive IT/ITES units and multinational technology structures, with arm's-length benchmarking that holds up when the parent company's transfer pricing study gets reviewed. For payments to overseas vendors and group entities, our Form 15CA/15CB certification and cross-border payment work covers the withholding tax questions on royalty, fees for technical services and software licensing that come with every international wire transfer.
And because product and SaaS businesses run on a different cash and growth rhythm than most industries, our Virtual CFO service is tailored specifically for that context — built around the metrics and funding cycles that actually matter to a product company, not a generic reporting template.