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Other Business Services purpose codes

Group 10 of RBI’s receipt purpose codes, Other Business Services, carries 21 codes. Receipts for professional and technical services: commissions, leasing without crew, legal, accounting, consulting, advertising, research, engineering, trade services and more.

Group 1021 codesRBI receipt purposes

Every code in group 10

CodeRBI wordingeBRC on DGFT
P1002Trade related services, commission on exports / importsService export, not named
P1003Operational leasing services (other than financial leasing) without operating crew, including charter hire- Airlines companiesService export, not named
P1004Legal servicesService export, not named
P1005Accounting, auditing, book keeping servicesService export, not named
P1006Business and management consultancy and public relations servicesService export, not named
P1007Advertising, trade fair serviceService export, not named
P1008Research & Development servicesService export, not named
P1009Architectural servicesService export, not named
P1010Agricultural services like protection against insects & disease, increasing of harvest yields, forestry services.Service export, not named
P1011Inward remittance for maintenance of offices in IndiaService export, not named
P1013Environmental ServicesService export, not named
P1014Engineering ServicesService export, not named
P1015Tax consulting servicesService export, not named
P1016Market research and public opinion polling serviceService export, not named
P1017Publishing and printing servicesService export, not named
P1018Mining services like on-site processing services analysis of ores etc.Service export, not named
P1019Commission agent servicesService export, not named
P1020Wholesale and retailing trade services.Service export, not named
P1021Operational leasing services (other than financial leasing) without operating crew, including charter hire- Shipping companiesService export, not named
P1022Other Technical Services including scientific/space services.Service export, not named
P1099Other services not included elsewhereService export, not named

Where the wording and the rules come from

The wording in the table is RBI’s, from the receipt purpose list in Annex I to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 84 dated 29 February 2012, the list Authorised Dealer banks report foreign exchange receipts against. The eBRC column is DGFT’s, from its General Guidelines for Generating eBRC (last updated 26 March 2024), and each code’s page quotes the rule behind its entry. How the purpose code is checked when a remittance is mapped is in RBI purpose codes on your eBRC.

RBI's receipt purpose list carries 21 codes in group 10: P1002, P1003, P1004, P1005, P1006, P1007, P1008, P1009, P1010, P1011, P1013, P1014, P1015, P1016, P1017, P1018, P1019, P1020, P1021, P1022, P1099. Receipts for professional and technical services: commissions, leasing without crew, legal, accounting, consulting, advertising, research, engineering, trade services and more.

DGFT's guidelines do not name P1002. They say that for a service export the exporter can attach only invoices whose SAC code matches the description of the service, and that no two purpose codes may be clubbed in one eBRC except with P0103. So where P1002 is the right description of a service you exported, the eBRC is generated with P1002 on its own, or clubbed with P0103, against an invoice whose SAC code matches that service. The same holds for every code in group 10; each code's page on ebrc.in states the rule that applies.

The AD bank that receives the payment. It reports the remittance to the RBI with the code that describes it, and that report is the IRM the eBRC is generated from. A code that looks wrong is corrected through the bank.

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