How to file an EDF for Google AdSense
A Google AdSense payout from India is usually an export of advertising services. Here is what to put on the EDF, which SAC code fits, and when the form is due.
How to file an EDF for Meta payouts and Facebook earnings
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Facebook and Instagram earnings paid by Meta are service exports when you are in India. Use the payout statement for the invoice line, and give the form to the bank that receives the money.
Which Meta payments belong on an EDF
Meta payouts for Facebook and Instagram — in-stream ads, Stars, bonuses, and similar content earnings — are paid by an overseas Meta company. From 1 October 2026 that payout is declared on the same Export Declaration Form used for other services. Software paperwork called SOFTEX is no longer the form for this.
Use the payout you can print from Meta’s payment pages. An estimated earnings screen is not an invoice. The statement number is the invoice number, the payment date is the invoice date, and the amount received is the invoice amount.
What to write in Part 2B
The recipient is the Meta company on the statement, often Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., with that company’s country. Describe the service as other online content. The Service Accounting Code this site uses for that description is 998439.
Banks often report audio-visual and related services under purpose code P1101. That code is a hint for the bank. It is not printed as its own column on Part 2B. Net realisable value, for a straightforward payout, is the amount you expect to receive after any commission the form is recording.
Meta is the third-party payer when the money does not come straight from an advertiser. Enter Meta’s name, address, and the relationship (the platform that collected the earnings) in the third-party block.
Deadline and the bank
File within 30 days after the invoice month. One form can list every recipient you invoiced in that month, so a Meta payout and another client’s invoice from the same month can share a form. For a service other than software, you may file on or before the payment date instead.
Bring foreign-currency proceeds into India within nine months of the invoice date, or twelve months if the invoice or settlement is in rupees. The bank that receives the remittance is the bank that should get the form, even if a different bank holds your savings account.
Free EDF can turn a Meta payout PDF into a filled form in your browser. You still add PAN, GSTIN, IE code, and the bank’s AD code, then you sign it and give it to that bank. This site does not file it.
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What to enter in Part 2B of the EDF
Goods use Part 2A. Services use Part 2B. Each overseas recipient you invoiced that month gets a line, and the header of the form still identifies you and your bank.
One EDF for every client invoiced that month
You no longer need a separate declaration for every overseas client. Group the month’s invoices on one form, and skip any month in which you raised no export invoice.