Several start-ups have been planning to shift their domiciles to India. However, the cost of the same is high. For example. Walmart-based PhonePe had to pay Rs 8,000 crore in taxes while shifting their domicile to India. During a YouTube live session in January 2023, PhonePe cofounder Sameer Nigam said, “I hope things will get easier. If you want to move from any other market to India as a domicile, it is treated as a capital gains event for existing investors, so they have to make a fresh mark to market valuation, and you have to pay tax on the delta.”