Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) vide its Circular No.37 dated June 28, 2019, discontinued the existing practice of submission of annual returns on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) through email to RBI by July 15 of every year. RBI has provided a web-portal interface https://flair.rbi.org.in to the reporting entities to get an RBI provided login-name and password, using which the entities are required to report inward and outward foreign affiliate trade statistics (FATS).
Since 2012, RBI had mandated filing of the annual return FLA for all Indian companies which have received any foreign investment or has made overseas investment. The procedure for submission of the form was by sending an email to the RBI by July 15th every year attaching a duly filled form in soft copy.
The details sought in the revised Foreign Liabilities and Assets Information Reporting (FLAIR) system include, information on first year of receipt of foreign direct investment/overseas direct investment, disinvestment, and other financial details on fiscal year basis.
Source: https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/NT226CBAA4706347E46429D5034B4671A6F60.PDF
