Key Takeaways Financial due diligence is not an audit. Investors are not checking whether your books are clean for the tax department. They are checking whether the story you told them in the pitch is…
If you run a private limited company, your June 30 filing pressure just eased, but read the fine print before you relax. Following a fire at its Data Centre on June 5, 2026, the Ministry…
On June 24, 2026, the Reserve Bank of India carried out one of the largest housekeeping exercises in the history of India's foreign-exchange framework. Through A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 18 (reference RBI/2026-27/175), the RBI…
On June 19, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Board of India cleared one of the largest ease-of-doing-business packages the Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) industry has seen in years. The headline reform has an aviation-themed name:…
Most founders treat their ESOP as a single decision. They carve out a pool when an investor asks for one, hand out a few grants, and move on. Then, two rounds later, the pool is…
A quiet but fundamental change has reshaped how GST returns work in India. Since the July 2025 tax period (returns filed from August 2025), the auto-populated outward tax liability in Form GSTR-3B is hard-locked. The…
The Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 is the most significant proposed rewrite of the Companies Act, 2013 and the LLP Act, 2008 in years. It was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 23 March 2026…
For more than four decades, only four cities, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, let a salaried employee claim House Rent Allowance (HRA) exemption at 50% of salary. Everywhere else was capped at 40%. The Income-tax…
Unit Economics 101: The 6 Numbers Investors Stress-Test in Indian Startups (2026) I have sat on the founder's side of enough fundraising conversations to know the exact moment a pitch changes gear. It is not…
If your business ever bills goods to one address and ships them to another, a quiet change to the E-Way Bill system is about to become unavoidable. GSTN has deferred two new functionalities from 15…
