GIFT City is where the world enters India — and where India reaches the world. Bhatt & Joshi Associates is a Gujarat High Court practice, rooted in income-tax law, advising across all twenty business heads of the country's only International Financial Services Centre.
Twenty-six handbooks of the Bhatt & Joshi Practitioner Series — covering every IFSC business head — together with four long-form Publication Series monographs and three Research volumes, are now published and downloadable. Every operational head page carries a live interactive tool. The architecture is ready for sustained engagement.
GIFT City offers international investors an offshore regulatory and tax environment on Indian soil. What it still requires is counsel who understand both worlds — the IFSCA rulebook and the Indian legal system that surrounds it. That is the seam we work in.
Our founder is Senior Standing Counsel for the Income Tax Department. The fiscal architecture that makes the IFSC attractive is the law we argue every week.
We are based in Ahmedabad, a short drive from the centre — close enough to be present, and to understand the ecosystem from the inside.
Advisory backed by courtroom credibility. If a structure or a position is ever questioned, we are a firm that argues — not only one that drafts.
For global companies and HNIs weighing where to base cross-border activity, three forces are converging on a single jurisdiction — and they reward acting early.
A long income-tax holiday for IFSC units, relief from GST on IFSC services, and exemptions from STT, CTT and stamp duty on IFSC-exchange trades — an architecture built to stand beside the established offshore centres.
Unlike a purely offshore hub, GIFT City sits on Indian soil and aligns with national policy. For firms whose strategy includes India, it is both an offshore base and an on-ramp to one of the world's largest growth markets.
In an uncertain world, predictability is itself an asset. A single, transparent regulator, an independent judiciary, and a neutral, treaty-anchored legal order make GIFT City a considered choice for capital that values certainty as much as headline rates.
The opportunity is real, but every benefit carries a condition. That is where an enabler at the threshold earns its place — see how the framework works →
IFSCA's framework spans twenty distinct business heads — from banking and fund management to aircraft leasing, bullion, listing, and the tax regime that ties them together. We advise across all of them. Search, filter, or try the investor tools to find yours.
Whether you are a fund manager, a bank, an insurer, a lessor, or a family office, the first conversation costs nothing and clarifies a great deal.
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