# Manage Your India Property From Los Angeles | 66 MG Road By Saurabh Garg, founder·7 min read·Published 2026-08-25 **Short answer:** California is the one state split between two Indian missions. Ten southern counties belong to the Los Angeles consulate, the rest of the state to San Francisco, and the Los Angeles jurisdiction also covers Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. California taxes residents on worldwide income and its Schedule S credit excludes tax paid to a foreign country, so the Indian tax on your rent comes back federally on Form 1116 and not on your California return. # Managing Your India Property From Los Angeles **California is the only state in the country split between two Indian missions, and the line runs on county boundaries rather than on anything you would guess.** Ten Southern California counties belong to the Consulate General of India, Los Angeles: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern and San Luis Obispo. The rest of the state belongs to San Francisco. The Los Angeles jurisdiction then reaches out to cover Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Get that wrong and your power of attorney takes a courier trip it did not need. Owners in Bakersfield send south. Owners in Fresno send north. ## Your mission, and the county line Consulate General of India, Los Angeles is at 707 Wilshire Boulevard. It serves one of the largest Indian-American populations in the country, and its jurisdiction sits on the revised national map that took effect on 15 July 2025. Since August 2025, miscellaneous consular services for Indian missions in the US, attestation of a power of attorney and property affidavits among them, are processed through VFS Global rather than at the mission counter. Appointment, courier out, courier back. That is weeks, not days, so start the paperwork before a tenancy or a sale date is fixed rather than the week it is due. ## California taxes it and gives nothing back California taxes its residents on income from all worldwide sources, your India rent and your India capital gain included. The credit California offers for tax paid elsewhere is the other state tax credit on Schedule S, and its boundary is drawn tight. Taxes paid to a foreign country cannot be included in that computation. The credit reaches other US states and US possessions. It does not reach India. Follow the money through. India withholds 31.2% of your rent at source before it reaches your NRO account. The IRS taxes the same rent and returns the Indian tax to you as a foreign tax credit on Form 1116. California taxes the same rent a third time and offers no offset for what India took. For a Southern California owner, the state layer is real, and the only place the Indian tax comes back is the federal return. Nevada is the contrast inside the same consular jurisdiction: no personal income tax, so no state layer at all. Arizona and New Mexico each run their own income tax with their own credit rules, and neither answer should be read across from California. Ask your preparer the narrow question for your own state and get it in writing. ## Thirteen and a half hours, and a quirk in Arizona Los Angeles runs on Pacific Time. India Standard Time is 12.5 hours ahead in the US summer and 13.5 hours ahead in the US winter. India has no daylight saving, so the gap changes when the American clocks move. Arizona is the exception worth knowing. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so Phoenix sits a steady 12.5 hours behind India all year while Los Angeles slides between 12.5 and 13.5. If you moved from Scottsdale to Santa Monica, your window shifted without your calendar telling you. Either way there is nothing to schedule into. A bank in Bangalore opens at 10 in the morning, which is half past nine the previous night in Los Angeles. It closes at 5 and you are asleep at half past four in the morning. Your working day starts after the Indian one has ended and finishes long after everyone there has gone home. This is the widest gap any Indian property owner in the United States works across. ## The three pieces of plumbing **An NRO account for the money.** Rent from an Indian property has to land in a Non-Resident Ordinary account in your name, and that account is where repatriation runs from later. Open it before a tenant pays anything. See [NRO accounts and rent taxation](/guides/nro-account-rent-taxation). **A narrow power of attorney for the signatures.** One named person, one named property, a listed set of acts. Broad powers are a liability, not a shortcut. From California the route is a notary with two independent witnesses, an apostille from the California Secretary of State, a courier to India, and stamp-duty adjudication within three months of arrival under Section 18 of the Indian Stamp Act. Indian passport and OCI holders can use mission attestation in place of the apostille. See [granting a power of attorney from the USA to India](/guides/power-of-attorney-from-usa-to-india). **A paper trail for three authorities.** India, the IRS, and Sacramento. India withholds 31.2% of rent from the first rupee under the non-resident rule, carried in Section 393(2) of the Income-tax Act 2025 after moving from Section 195. You file in India to reconcile. The same rent then goes on Schedule E of your federal return in dollars, with the building depreciated over 30 years rather than 27.5 because it sits abroad. See [rent TDS for NRI landlords](/guides/tds-on-rent-nri-landlord) and [US tax on rental income from India](/guides/us-tax-on-rental-income-nri). ## What we run from India We have no office in Los Angeles and none anywhere in the United States. Our people are in India: teams on the ground in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and vetted broker partners in Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Gurgaon. We print that map rather than let anyone imagine a bigger one. For your flat: one named manager rather than a queue, itemized billing to the rupee, dated photographs when work is done, and rent into your NRO account with the withholding paperwork tracked so the filings agree with each other. The operating discipline is in [managing tenants from abroad](/guides/managing-tenants-from-abroad). A Property Health Check comes before the keys, not after. It is the paid, bounded way to see what you own before you give anyone authority over it. Site visit, boundary and encroachment survey, encumbrance certificate, khata and mutation status, tax dues, occupancy, written up as a risk report. ## What it costs Property Health Check at 20,000 rupees, one time. Quarterly photo proof on a vacant property, priced per property on the same page. Full management from 5% of monthly rent, minimum 2,500 rupees a month. Tenancy placement from one month's rent. Table on [pricing](/pricing), scope on [services](/services), calculators on [tools](/tools), and a [proposal](/proposal) for numbers against your own flat. The full mission map sits on the [US owner's hub](/nri-property-usa). ## FAQ **Which Indian consulate covers Southern California?** Los Angeles, for ten counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Kern and San Luis Obispo. The rest of California belongs to the San Francisco consulate. California is the only state split this way. **Does California give me credit for the tax India took on my rent?** No. Taxes paid to a foreign country cannot be included in the other state tax credit computed on Schedule S. That credit covers other US states and US possessions. Your relief for Indian tax is federal, on Form 1116. **I live in Nevada. Is the answer different?** Yes on the state side. Nevada levies no personal income tax, so there is no state layer on your India rent. Your consulate is still Los Angeles, and India and the IRS still apply. **How far behind India is Los Angeles?** 12.5 hours in the US summer, 13.5 hours in the US winter. Phoenix stays at 12.5 hours all year because Arizona does not observe daylight saving. There is no overlap with an Indian business day in either case. **Do you have an office in Los Angeles?** No. Our people are in India. What the distance costs you is somebody who can stand in front of the flat inside Indian business hours, and that is the gap we fill. **My property is vacant land. What does it need?** Not management. Vacant land has no tenant and no rent, so what it needs is somebody looking at the boundary on a schedule and proving it is still yours. That is the survey and quarterly photo-proof route, and it is the tier most owners of vacant assets should be on. *Saurabh Garg, founder, 66 MG Road* ## Sources - Embassy of India, Washington DC, consular jurisdiction in the USA, effective 15 July 2025: [https://www.indianembassyusa.gov.in/pages/MTc](https://www.indianembassyusa.gov.in/pages/MTc), - Consulate General of India, Los Angeles: [https://www.indiainla.gov.in/](https://www.indiainla.gov.in/) - California Franchise Tax Board, 2025 Instructions for Schedule S, Other State Tax Credit: [https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2025/2025-540-s-instructions.html](https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2025/2025-540-s-instructions.html) - California Franchise Tax Board, other state tax credit: [https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/other-state-tax-credit.html](https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/other-state-tax-credit.html) - VFS Global, Indian miscellaneous consular services in the USA: [https://visa.vfsglobal.com/usa/en/ind/miscellaneous-services](https://visa.vfsglobal.com/usa/en/ind/miscellaneous-services) - IRS, Instructions for Form 1116, Foreign Tax Credit: [https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1116](https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1116) - IRS, Revenue Procedure 2019-08, 30-year ADS for residential rental property: [https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-19-08.pdf](https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-19-08.pdf) - Indian Stamp Act 1899, Section 18: [https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/20095/1/the_indian_stamp_act,_1899.pdf](https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/20095/1/the_indian_stamp_act,_1899.pdf) Information on this page is as on 2026-08-25. Rules, rates, deadlines and government portals change without notice, so verify against the official source before you act. This page is for information only. It is not tax or legal advice, and it is not a substitute for a qualified adviser who knows your position. ## Related guides - [India Property From the United States](/nri-property-usa) - [Managing Your India Property From San Francisco](/manage-india-property-from-san-francisco) - [Managing Your India Property From Seattle](/manage-india-property-from-seattle) ## Compare and cost - [The NRI Property Management Companies in India: A Comparison You Can Check](/guides/best-nri-property-management-companies-india) - [What NRI Property Management Costs in India: The Four Models and What Hides in Each](/guides/nri-property-management-cost-india) - [NoBroker NRI Services Review: What the Pages Promise and What They Leave Out](/guides/nobroker-nri-services-review) --- Source: [https://66mgroad.com/manage-india-property-from-los-angeles](https://66mgroad.com/manage-india-property-from-los-angeles) · 66 MG Road. Full LLM brief: https://66mgroad.com/llms.txt