CDC or passport date for seafarer

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For seafarers working on foreign ships, determining Non-Resident Indian (NRI) status for taxation typically relies on the arrival and departure dates recorded in your passport. While CDC dates reflect boarding, it's the passport entries that are generally considered. To be classified as a non-resident, you generally need to be outside of India's 12 nautical mile territorial waters for 182 days or more in a financial year.

ghosh

ghosh (Querist)

14 January 2020 Please let me know whether dates mentioned in CDC( ship in and out record) issued to seafarer or dates according to arrival and departure mentioned in passport of seafarer who works in foreign ship , is relevant for determining NRI status?

Amol S Joglekar

Amol S Joglekar (Expert)

15 January 2020 normally the dates mentioned as arrival and departure on PASSPORT are relevant. (If it is making substantial difference in your taxation, let me add....... upto 12 nautical miles is regarded to be Indian territory. Does that make any favourable difference in your case?)

ghosh

ghosh (Querist)

15 January 2020 cdc dates are entered when you board the ship , therefore while ship is within 12 nautica 1 miles , still cdc entry date will be there.

Amol S Joglekar

Amol S Joglekar (Expert)

16 January 2020 So?... You have to be out of 12 nautical miles from the base line of sea shore of India for 182 days or more to be Non Resident. Otherwise, in normal circumstances count on the dates on passport

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