ITR Saral — BlogVerified updates on the Income-tax Act 2025 and GST for India's freelancers.https://itrsaral.in/Foreign client checklist: LUT, invoice endorsement, FIRC and the one-year rulehttps://itrsaral.in/blog/auto-foreign-client-checklist/https://itrsaral.in/blog/auto-foreign-client-checklist/Working with foreign clients brings in foreign exchange, but it also hooks you into strict tax and trade rules. To keep your freelance income clean and legal under the Income-tax AFri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe 57th GST Council moved to 7 October. Here's what freelancers can rely on today.https://itrsaral.in/blog/gst-council-postponed-what-freelancers-need/https://itrsaral.in/blog/gst-council-postponed-what-freelancers-need/The Council meeting expected on 12 September was rescheduled for the BRICS summit. Nothing changed — and that's the point: the registration threshold, the export exemption, the LUT process and the 3-day Rule 14A registration are all settled. What's on the October agenda, and what isn't.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTFreelancers get one advance-tax date, not four. Use it.https://itrsaral.in/blog/advance-tax-15-march-rule/https://itrsaral.in/blog/advance-tax-15-march-rule/Section 408(2) of the new Act lets presumptive filers pay the whole year's advance tax in a single 15 March instalment — no June/September/December juggling. How it works, what missing it costs, and the ₹10,000 floor.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe 5% cash test: one UPI habit that changes your tax limit by a crorehttps://itrsaral.in/blog/five-percent-cash-test/https://itrsaral.in/blog/five-percent-cash-test/Keep cash receipts within 5% and your presumptive limits jump — ₹50L→₹75L for professions, ₹2cr→₹3cr for business. How the test works, what counts as cash, and the one payment that can cost you the higher limit.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTITR-4 now allows two house properties — most articles haven't caught uphttps://itrsaral.in/blog/itr4-two-house-properties/https://itrsaral.in/blog/itr4-two-house-properties/CBDT Notification 45/2026 quietly changed an old rule: owning a second house no longer throws you out of the simple ITR-4. Here's what changed, why, and who still gets pushed to ITR-3.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTW-8BEN for Indian creators: the five screens where people go wronghttps://itrsaral.in/blog/w8ben-indian-creators/https://itrsaral.in/blog/w8ben-indian-creators/Google asks every AdSense publisher for US tax info. Fill the W-8BEN right and your withholding is 0–15%; fill it wrong and up to 24% vanishes. A screen-by-screen walkthrough of the exact mistakes to avoid.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe ₹12 lakh zero-tax math, freelancer editionhttps://itrsaral.in/blog/zero-tax-12-lakh-freelancers/https://itrsaral.in/blog/zero-tax-12-lakh-freelancers/Everyone knows salary up to ₹12 lakh is now tax-free. Fewer know what the same rebate does when it meets presumptive taxation — a business-track freelancer can bill far more than ₹12 lakh and still owe nothing.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTIncome-tax Act 2025: what actually changed for freelancers (and what didn't)https://itrsaral.in/blog/act-2025-what-changed-for-freelancers/https://itrsaral.in/blog/act-2025-what-changed-for-freelancers/The new Act is in force since 1 April 2026. Here are the five changes a freelancer actually feels — and the surprisingly long list of things that stayed exactly the same.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT