Insights
Practical writing on GST, compliance, and taxation for Indian businesses — by CA Rahul Khurana.
You’ve received a GST notice. Here’s exactly what to do — and what not to.
A notice is a question, not a verdict. The step-by-step playbook: read it properly, find the trigger, build the reconciliation, reply on time — and the three mistakes that make it worse.
Company Law · ComplianceThe compliance calendar every private limited company keeps missing
Founders don’t fail compliance out of negligence — they fail it out of fragmentation. The four calendars every company is secretly running, and how working companies merge them.
GST · Cash FlowWhy your Input Tax Credit keeps getting stuck — and how to protect your cash flow
Stuck ITC is a cash-flow tax: vendor defaults, 2B mismatches, the 180-day trap, and blocked categories under Section 17(5) — plus the monthly habits that keep credit flowing.
TDS · ComplianceThe five TDS mistakes that quietly cost Indian businesses money
TDS is the rare compliance where one mistake costs three ways: interest, penalties, and disallowed expenses. The five failures we see most — and the monthly discipline that prevents them.
Income Tax · FreelancersFreelancers and small businesses: you may be doing more tax work than the law requires
Sections 44AD and 44ADA are the law’s own offer to skip the paperwork — when the arithmetic favours you. When presumptive taxation saves money, when it costs you, and the traps in between.
Startups · Company LawYou’ve incorporated. Now what? A first-year compliance roadmap for Indian startups
Companies rarely become non-compliant in year five — they become non-compliant in month two and discover it in year five. The sixty-day checklist, the registrations, and the rhythm.
Accounting · OutsourcingThe real cost of DIY bookkeeping (it isn’t the software)
Founders doing their own books save a fee and pay in leaked ITC, missed TDS, unreconciled accounts, and decisions made on wrong numbers. The symptoms that say it’s time to hand over.