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RBI allows Indian Resident to open foreign currency accounts in GIFT City under LRS

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The new RBI circular allows an Indian Resident to open foreign currency accounts in GIFT City under its Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS).

You can utilise the US Dollar remitted to your GIFT City account for any permissible purpose such as tourism, maintenance of relatives, gifts, investing in stocks/ETFs/bonds or education.

One needs to take care of following :

1. Utilise the money within 6 months of transfer, i.e invest in foreign stocks/bonds/ETFs or spend it on foreign education, tourism or maintainance of relative residing outside India within 6 months.

2. The accounts have to be declared in Schedule FA (Foreign Asset) in the Income Tax Return.

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