I want to start industrial trading business in Mumbai.
Tell me basic procedure

I live in Tamil Nadu, India. Is it legal for me to buy a lottery ticket online from a foreign lottery website and pay with my Indian debit or credit card? If I win, what legal and tax consequences would there be when the prize money comes into my Indian bank account?

I've also seen reports of people in India winning prizes from foreign lotteries. If the purchase was not permitted, what consequences have such winners actually faced, or how are these cases usually handled by banks, the RBI, or the authorities? Are there any known cases or orders on this?

EPF full final rules waiting time period

Hello Experts -

This is a question from a lay person regading the recently (CG-DL-E-15082026-275490) introduced FAST-DS 2026 scheme.
Here it mentions that any money paid by a declarant via the scheme (fee/penalty etc for disclosure) is non refundable, cant be set off etc.
Question:
For person declaring a bank a/c under this scheme, the requiement is 'Sum of all deposits'. A person who had this a/c a decade ago was informed by the foreign bank that the retention policy meant that the statements are only available after 2018.
The rules just ask for supporting documentation but theres no room for variation when reporting 'sum of all deposit' for bank account, an alternative was not provided in the rules. (though it was provided during a similar scheme in 2015) ie, Question 5. https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/documents/d/guest/circular15_2015-pdf

Main part -
SInce there's no refund, & no mention of a provision/mechanism (like e-campaign for taxes) for a declarant to answer queries that the dept might have about a declaration made by a person., the person has no alternative but to declare pay the amount and then hope it is approved (since there;s no mention of 'Best estimate' alternate for 'sum of all deposits' like the scheme in 2015)?
From the way it is framed (atleast to a lay person) it looks like there's no support or explanation mechanism mentioned in the scheme for edge cases, so after paying the dialog is closed and if it is rejected for whatever reason, the person filing wont know the reason and most importantly the money will be lost.
Can an expert or someone who is reasonably familiar with law-speak please reply if this is as rigid and recourseless as it appears to be.

Thanks in advance for your expertise

A query regarding FCRA.
1. When we registered we had to upload affidavit of all members and their designation with notary ( format Proforma AA in portal which is to be edited by us)
2. When the signing authority had changed only their affidavit where to be uploaded last year.
3. This year again we have made changes in signing authority, but automatically each person formats gets generated with all details which is to be uploaded in portal back with notary.
My question is should we only upload the signing authority affidavit or all the members affidavit as it gets generated automatically according to change made by them.

A ESTABLISHMEN TAKE EPF REGISTRATION ON 25-01-2025. AFTER TAKING REGISTRATION NO RETURN WILL BE FILED
HOW TO FILE ALL PREVIOUS RETURN IN EPF PORTAL

Sir
Can a CA/CS/CMA Firm place their profile in a public website?
Does it amount to professional misconduct on ground of "advertising / soliciting to prospective clients?
Regards
Abhijit

Sir
One Pvt Ltd Company import spare parts from singapur. Latter it was found that a good number of spares are defective and so rejected. The indian company(importer) inform the Singapur Company about this fact.The Singapur company in turn wave the entire sale price due from Indian Pvt company(importer).
My query is what is the compliance required to comply under RBI/FEMA exclusively?

There is no problem in compliance in accounts and Income Tax Part .
Regards
Abhijit

Sir
One govt corporation (say A)given a building to another Govt owned corporation(say B) on permissive possession basis.
'A 'claim rent on that building given to 'B'.
My query is can A claim rent from B on that building given on permissive possession basis?
If they claim 'Rent' can it be treated as 'Rent''?
Actually what is the legal status of 'Permissive Possession'?
Regards
Abhijit

I am planning to incorporate an LLP in Gujarat to operate three distinct, non-related business verticals: a Travel Agency, a Cloud Kitchen, and an E-commerce business (Selling products on Amazon/Flipkart). All three will be managed by the same partners under a single parent entity.
My accounting firm has advised that it is not legally possible to run such non-related businesses under one LLP and recommends incorporating three separate LLPs instead.
I need clarification on the following:
1. Is there any specific provision in the LLP Act, 2008 that prohibits a single LLP from carrying out multiple unrelated business activities if they are all explicitly mentioned in the Object Clause of the LLP Agreement? [1, 2]
2. If I include all three activities in the 'Main Objects,' will the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) typically reject the incorporation for lack of interrelation? [1]
3. Operationally, can I use a single PAN to obtain multiple GST registrations (different vertical-based GSTINs) for these distinct activities under one LLP? [1]