I write when something is clear enough in my head to be useful to someone else. Topics range from international tax and business to AI, automation, and building things that outlast your attention.
Every business owner or promoter has a set of government portals and platforms they must access regularly — or at least have credentials ready when their CA asks.…
```html Sixty-four years. That's how long the Income Tax Act, 1961 has governed taxation in India. And now, after nearly seven decades, we're getting a complete rewrite. As…
DTAA stands for Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement. India has these agreements with over 90 countries. They exist to ensure that the same income is not taxed twice —…
Transfer pricing sounds like something that only matters for multinationals with dedicated tax departments and armies of advisors. The reality is that it kicks in the moment you…
One of the more interesting intellectual problems in owning small businesses is figuring out what they're actually worth. Not for any immediate transactional reason — I'm not selling…
I work with NRIs fairly regularly. Not as the primary focus of my practice — cross-border corporate tax is the main work — but NRI tax planning comes…
Every business I run has WhatsApp as the primary contact channel. Not email. Not a contact form. Not a booking system. WhatsApp. This was a deliberate choice, not…
I had a WordPress website for my CA practice that looked like it was built in 2014 — because it was. It worked. Clients could find me. But…
Every few months I speak with an Indian founder who has incorporated in Delaware, opened a Stripe account, and is now confused about why their CA back home…
Most business owners pick their structure once — usually at the start, usually without much thought — and then never revisit it. A friend suggested a private limited…
People ask me this fairly often. How does a CA who handles international tax for clients also run a farmhouse rental, manage a paying-guest property, and still have…