India Updates AEOI Schema for Filing Year 2017

May 9, 2017

Paul Ogawa

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Sovos

This blog was last updated on June 27, 2021

India recently published an update to Form 61B, which is part of the XML schema used by India for AEOI reporting.

The two changes apply to the following fields:

The XML Element Name “AcctCatg” was added under Form61B/PartBReportDetails/AccountDtls;
The XML Element “CurrCode” was modified by providing all currency codes along with INR were added in the drop down.

Please note that this schema change form contains the updates only: to review the entirety of the India AEOI XML Schema, visit the Indian tax authority here.

Paul Ogawa

Paul Ogawa is a Senior Regulatory Counsel at Sovos Compliance. As part of the Regulatory Analysis team, his main areas of focus are state and federal tax withholding, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Canadian tax information reporting. Prior to Sovos, Paul worked as a litigation attorney in Boston area law firms, representing clients in insurance subrogation claims, family law matters, and employment disputes. Paul is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, earned his B.A. from Brandeis University and his J.D. from the Suffolk University Law School.

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