New product features, statutory payroll updates, modern leadership playbooks, and workforce intelligence.
From 1 April 2025, a micro enterprise can have up to ₹2.5 crore of investment and ₹10 crore turnover, a small enterprise ₹25 crore and ₹100 crore, and a medium enterprise ₹125 crore and ₹500 crore. How Udyam classification works and what it unlocks.
Since 31 March 2025, companies with turnover above ₹250 crore must be registered on a Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform. How MSME suppliers can discount accepted invoices without recourse, what it costs, and how to get started.
Hotel stays are taxed as supplies in the state where the hotel is, so credit is usable only by a GSTIN in that state. Air travel, cabs and meals have their own rules. How to collect valid invoices from employees and what to do for states where you have no registration.
A branch, warehouse or depot in another state needs its own GST registration, and stock transfers between your own GSTINs are taxable supplies with an invoice and e-way bill. Valuation of branch transfers, ISD, professional tax and labour registrations, with a checklist.
Manufacturers can send inputs and capital goods to job workers under a delivery challan without GST, if inputs return within one year and capital goods within three years. ITC-04 is half-yearly above ₹5 crore turnover, due 25 October for April to September, and annual below. With an example.
From 1 April 2026, employees living in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune can claim HRA exemption up to 50% of salary instead of 40%. Who gains, a worked example, why it matters only under the old regime, and what payroll should update.
The Income-tax Rules, 2026 raised tax-free meal vouchers to ₹200 a meal, employer gifts to ₹15,000 a year, children education allowance to ₹3,000 a month and hostel allowance to ₹9,000 a month. What applies in each tax regime and how to update salary structures.
Tax worked out under both regimes for salaries of ₹12 lakh, ₹18 lakh and ₹25 lakh for Tax Year 2026-27, the deductions that make the old regime worth it, and how employees and payroll teams should handle the choice.
Employer contributions to an employee’s NPS account are deductible up to 14% of salary in the new tax regime. A worked example, the ₹7.5 lakh yearly cap on employer retirement contributions, and how to add NPS to a salary structure.
Under the Income-tax Rules, 2026, interest-free or low-interest employer loans up to ₹2 lakh carry no perquisite tax, up from ₹20,000. How the perquisite is valued above that, salary deduction limits, and a loan policy checklist.
A Diwali cash bonus is fully taxable salary, but gifts and vouchers to an employee are tax-free up to ₹15,000 a year under the Income-tax Rules, 2026. GST on employee gifts, input tax credit, and how to run festive payouts through payroll.
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code allows up to 48 hours a week, with overtime at twice the ordinary wage. When a four-day, 12-hour-shift week is possible, what consent and state rules require, and how to set up attendance and payroll.
