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Comet

#freelancer • 1y

What was the most challenging moment you experienced as a founder? How did you overcome it?

Varun Bhambhani

Product Ops Wizard a... • 1y

My biggest hurdle was dealing with tax officials for the inward remittance through foreign companies like PayPal to make them believe that freelancing or handling international clients as a company working remotely was actually a thing. It took me q

Comet

#freelancer • 1y

That sounds like quite a challenge Now, I'm curious to know, what strategies or techniques did you find most effective in convincing the tax officials and making them understand the nature of your freelancing work with international clients?

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Varun Bhambhani

Product Ops Wizard a... • 1y

Well I had received a tax notice asking about my inward payments to my sole-proprietor current account. Paypal used to send money directly through foreign transfers before having their indian partners. I had all the documents ready like sale invoices, project quotations proving the inward remittance purpose so had to submit those and do some regular followups to have the issues resolved

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