If you run a company that files a tax audit, one line in your working papers is about to look wrong even though nothing you do has changed. From FY 2026-27, the Income-tax Act 2025…
UPDATE (September 10, 2026): The September 8, 2026 deadline described in this post has been superseded. By a circular dated September 7, 2026, SEBI extended the accredited-investor compliance deadline for existing angel funds registered with…
If your company prepares financial statements under Indian Accounting Standards, the most consequential accounting change of the year has just landed, and it lands squarely on the FY 2026-27 accounts you are about to build.…
Key Takeaways Pre-money valuation is what your company is worth before the new money goes in. Post-money is pre-money plus the new investment. Post-money is the number that decides how much of your company you…
For years, a certain kind of company has carried a Reserve Bank of India licence it never really wanted. Not a lender, not a deposit-taker, not a fintech, just a group holding company or a…
If your group runs profit through a holding company, one provision decides whether the same rupee is taxed once on its way up to you, or two and three times over. It is the inter-corporate…
GIFT City has stopped being a talking point and started being a decision. When a founder plans an offshore-friendly fund, when a family office builds a global book, or when a lessor picks a home…
Key Takeaways If you hold equity in a foreign entity as overseas direct investment, an Annual Performance Report is due for each foreign entity every year by 31 December. It is not tied to your…
If you have decided to use the Foreign Assets of Small Taxpayers Disclosure Scheme (FAST-DS) 2026, the hard part is not the form. It is the number you put on each asset. The declaration in…
A tax officer walks into your declared place of business, finds it shut for the afternoon, and files a report. Weeks later your GST registration is suspended, then cancelled. For a running company, that is…
