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The Vodafone tax case in India is one of the most significant international tax disputes in the country’s history. At its core was a seemingly straightforward question: Can India levy capital gains tax on the sale of shares of a foreign company when those shares derive their value from an underlying Indian business? The dispute […]

Eligibility, recognition, and the three-year exemption — read against the new direct tax law The relief has changed address For close to a decade, the startup tax holiday lived at Section 80-IAC of the old direct tax statute. That statute has been repealed. From 1 April 2026 the operative law is the Income-tax Act, 2025,

A side-by-side comparison of a private limited company and an LLP, including the tax on money the owners actually take out. Most founders ask this question once, get a one-line answer, and live with it for the next ten years. The one-line answer is usually “a company pays 25%, an LLP pays 31%, so the

How to Structure the Acquisition Strategy for Your Next Vertical Integration Vertical integration is back on the boardroom agenda. After several years of supply shocks, price swings and unreliable delivery timelines, more businesses are deciding that the safest supplier or distributor is the one they own. Buying a step of your own value chain —

How to Hire Your Next CEO The single decision that shapes everything else — and how boards get it right. Every board makes hundreds of decisions. Only one of them decides the outcome of all the others. Choosing a chief executive sets the direction of the company for the next five to ten years, and

Raising Preference Share Capital: What Every Promoter Should Watch Before Signing Preference share capital sits in an unusual place on the balance sheet. It is called share capital, it is issued like share capital, and it is recorded in the register of members like share capital — yet in almost every commercial sense it behaves

How to Enter a Joint Venture: Key Financial, Valuation and Decision-Making Considerations Joint ventures have become one of the fastest ways for businesses to enter new markets, share the cost of large projects and access capabilities they do not have in-house. A joint venture (JV) lets two or more parties pool money, technology, licences, land,

Strategy for Excess Money: How to Decide Between Dividends, Reinvestment and Marketable Securities Surplus cash is one of the most misread signals on a balance sheet. Owners see it as proof that the business is doing well. Lenders see it as comfort. Investors, however, ask a sharper question: why is this money sitting idle, and

What Is the Impact of Setting Up a Branch Outside India of an Indian Entity? Going global is rarely a single decision. It is a series of smaller ones — where to go, what to sell, who to hire, and, most importantly, what legal form the overseas presence should take. For many growing companies, the