India property from Massachusetts: your consulate and your rails

You live in Massachusetts. Your property paperwork goes to the Consulate General, Boston, at 125 High Street, under the consular jurisdiction map effective 15 July 2025. Which mission handles you is decided by where you live, not by the city you travel from.

Boston holds Massachusetts on paper while its office is being stood up. Consulate General of India New York has been handling passport, visa and OCI work, with applications lodged through VFS in Boston. Check the mission advisory the week you file.

The hours you are working across

Massachusetts runs 9.5 hours behind India in US summer, 10.5 in winter. India keeps no daylight saving, so a gap that moves, moves because the US moved its clocks.

What Massachusetts does about the tax India already took

Massachusetts taxes residents on income from all sources, your India rent included, and its own instructions exclude tax paid to a foreign country from the credit it offers. The Indian tax comes back on the federal return through Form 1116, and not on the Massachusetts return.

India goes first either way. Rent paid to a non-resident owner carries 31.2% withheld at source from the first rupee, with no threshold, under the rule now carried in Section 393(2) of the Income-tax Act 2025. On a sale the buyer withholds on the full price rather than on your gain, at 13% to 14.95%, unless you hold a lower-deduction certificate.

Sending a power of attorney from Massachusetts

One named person, one named property, a listed set of acts. Sign before a notary with two independent witnesses, apostille through the authority that issues them where you live, courier the original to India, and adjudicate stamp duty within three months of arrival. Indian passport and OCI holders can use mission attestation instead. Since August 2025 the mission side runs through VFS Global, which adds an appointment and two courier legs.

The full POA route from the USA · What the tenant must deduct · What the IRS wants

Also served by Boston

All nine Indian missions in the USA · The full US owner’s guide · Property Health Check