{"id":588,"date":"2022-11-26T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/?p=588"},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:45:13","slug":"annual-return-on-foreign-assets-liabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/annual-return-on-foreign-assets-liabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Return On Foreign Assets &#038; Liabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(FLA return) under FEMA 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flair.rbi.org.in\"><strong><em>(<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Portal for submitting FLA : https:\/\/flair.rbi.org.in<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Purpose<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The annual return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) is required to be submitted directly by all the Indian companies which have received FDI (foreign direct investment) and\/or made FDI abroad (i.e. overseas investment) in the previous year(s) including the current year i.e. who holds foreign Assets or Liabilities in their Balance Sheets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entities eligible to submit FLA return<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>-A Company within the meaning of section 1(4) of the Companies Act, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>-A Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) registered under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008<\/p>\n<p>-Others [include SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Partnership Firms, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) etc.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What are the types of the Foreign Assets and Foreign Liabilities?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Investment by Indian Company outside India (ODI)<\/p>\n<p>-Foreign Investment in Indian Company (FDI)<\/p>\n<p>-Lending to foreign entity or person or Director (Investments)<\/p>\n<p>-Borrowings from Foreign entity or persons or Directors (Loans)<\/p>\n<p>-Trade Credit (Foreign Trade Payables &amp; Receivables)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Due Dates for Filing FLA Return<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-15<sup>th<\/sup> July of every year.<\/p>\n<p>-30<sup>th<\/sup> September \u2013 For filing revised FLA return (only if there are significant revisions from the provisional information)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>User Registration for Filing<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Entities needs to fill-in new User Registration Form on <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flair.rbi.org.in\/\"><strong><em>RBI Flair Portal <\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>for registration if:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-The company is filing the FLA Returns for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>-The details of authorized person had changed during the financial year.<\/p>\n<p>-The Entity name\/address has changed during the financial year.<\/p>\n<p>-Corporate Identification Number (CIN) \/ LLP Identification Number (LLPIN) \/ Others (UIN) \/Partnership Firm changed during the financial year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>While registration, Verification Letter &amp; Authorization Letter shall also be uploaded. (Format of letters are available on website)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Everytime for login into RBI Flair portal after registration, OTP will be sent on authorized person email address which will be valid only for 15 mins. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Documents\/Information required for FLA filing.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Audited\/Unaudited Financial Statements.<\/p>\n<p>-Break-up of sale &amp; purchase from Import &amp; Export.<\/p>\n<p>-Number of Employees in reporting Indian Company.<\/p>\n<p>-Cap table with address of Shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>-Details of outstanding liabilities &amp; claims with foreign unrelated parties.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Other Important points:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-In Part I, classes\/types relate to number of different face values the company may have.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Illustration:<\/strong> if a company has shares of face values say, INR 10 and INR 20, then \u201c2\u201d should be entered and not the face value of share).<\/p>\n<p>-During the year if there is change in Investor due to transfer of shares then in section III, in 1.b \/ 2.b, non-resident investor details \/ non-resident investor countries\u2019 details will be displayed as pre-filled of previous Investor and by clicking on Delete button companies will be able to modify the non-resident investor details by mentioning reasons for the same, companies will be able to add new investor.<\/p>\n<p>-In Section III, sum total percentage of investment received from overseas investors can be verified from Section II point 2.3<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Illustration:<\/strong> if a company receives FDI from three countries e.g. Netherlands 12%, USA 15%, UAE 17% then sum total of percentage i.e. 44% can be verified from section II point 2.3)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>Additional points for AIF (Alternative Investment Fund) FLA Return filing <\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-First AIF needs to register on the FLAIR portal &amp; to send a mail to <a href=\"mailto:survayfla@rbi.org.in\">survayfla@rbi.org.in<\/a> requesting for the form for filing of FLA Return.<\/p>\n<p>-On receiving the request FLA Team will send the excel form for filling FLA Return by AIF on mail &amp; submit the filled-in form on above mentioned email.<\/p>\n<p>-Email based acknowledgement form will be sent to by FLA Team on receiving the filled-in FLA form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>FLA return filing for previous year<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For submission of FLA returns for previous years, the reporting entity need to take approval from RBI by requesting through Flair portal itself &amp; entities need to wait for at least one working day for approval. After approval entity can submit FLA return for the requested previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA return) under FEMA 1999 (Portal for submitting FLA : https:\/\/flair.rbi.org.in) &nbsp; Purpose The annual return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) is required to be submitted directly by all the Indian companies which have received FDI (foreign direct investment) and\/or made FDI abroad (i.e. overseas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-exchange-management-act-1999"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aracs.in\/newaracs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}