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Practical how-tos, explainers, and pitfalls across finance operations, websites, marketing, analytics, and automation — written by Priya Iyer and the Bizeract team, for global SME founders and operators.
The New Income-tax Act, 2025 Takes Effect: What Changes for Small Businesses
From 1 April 2026 the Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces the 1961 Act. Rates do not change, but the "Tax Year" concept, new TDS section codes, extended deadlines and a 100% penalty on ₹20,000+ cash deals do. Here is the small-business transition checklist.
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Union Budget 2026-27 for MSMEs: ₹10,000 Cr Growth Fund, TReDS and CGTMSE Explained
The Budget 2026-27 backs MSMEs with a ₹10,000 crore SME Growth Fund, mandatory CPSE settlement on TReDS, a CGTMSE guarantee for invoice discounting, and "Corporate Mitras" for cheap compliance. Here is what each measure means and who can use it.
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TReDS Is Now Mandatory for ₹250 Cr+ Buyers: Get Your Invoices Paid in Days, Not Months
Every company above ₹250 crore turnover and all CPSEs must be on TReDS, the RBI invoice-discounting platform that has channelled over ₹7 lakh crore to MSMEs. Here is how small suppliers turn unpaid invoices into same-week, without-recourse cash.
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The DPDP Act Just Made Your Analytics a Compliance Question: Consent, Cookies and Tracking
India’s DPDP Rules, 2025 make cookies and tracking consent-driven — and there is no GDPR-style "legitimate interest" fallback. Behavioural analytics is now consent-gated. Here is what GA4, Meta pixels and your cookie banner must do to stay compliant.
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Server-Side Tracking in 2026: How to Recover the Conversions Ad Blockers Are Deleting
Ad blockers and Safari’s tracking prevention quietly delete a chunk of your conversions before they reach Google or Meta — so campaigns optimise on bad data. Server-side tracking moves collection to your own domain. Here is what it recovers and whether it is worth it.
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Cohort, LTV and CAC: The Retention Dashboard That Predicts Whether Your Business Survives
Acquisition costs rose 40-60% between 2023 and 2025, making retention your highest-leverage lever. The benchmark LTV:CAC is 3:1, and cutting churn from 2% to 1.5% lifts LTV by 33%. Here is how to build a cohort and unit-economics dashboard that tells the truth.
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The North Star Metric: How Founders Cut Through "Metric Sprawl" With One Number
Most founders have a focus problem, not a data problem — every team tracks its own numbers and reviews become debates. A North Star Metric fixes it. Here is how to choose yours, structure it as a metric tree, and build the dashboard McKinsey recommends.
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Ask Your Dashboard a Question: AI Self-Service Analytics and Natural-Language BI in 2026
Self-service analytics stalled at ~30% employee adoption for a decade. Natural-language and agentic AI are breaking that ceiling — but Gartner warns 60% of organisations will fail to get value without clean data. Here is what is real for a small business.
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ITR-U Now Has a 48-Month Window: How to Fix Old Tax Returns in 2026
The Finance Act, 2025 doubled the Updated Return (ITR-U) window from 24 to 48 months from 1 April 2025. You get more time to correct old returns — but the additional tax rises from 25% to 70% the longer you wait. Here is how Section 139(8A) works now.
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