Notes for people who invoice under their own name
Each piece is written off the statute, the notification or the gazette text, with the section named at the foot of the page. Where we have not read the primary text ourselves, we say so and leave the figure out rather than repeating what everyone else publishes.
The set so far
Getting paid, choosing a structure, holding client data
Three questions that decide most of what freelancing costs you in admin.
Getting paid
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Getting paid on time: the 45-day rule freelancers already have
One registration turns your payment terms into a statutory deadline that the client's own contract cannot push out, with compound interest running the day after it passes.
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Entity and tax
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Sole proprietor, OPC or LLP: what a freelancer actually needs
You are already a sole proprietor, because no filing was ever required to make you one. The question is when limited liability starts earning the paperwork it costs.
8 min read
Client data
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You hold client data: DPDP applies to freelancers too
The obligations under the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules commence in May 2027, with no phase-in for small operators. The contractual version of them will reach you well before that.
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Entity and tax
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GST registration for freelancers: the inter-state myth
Section 24 reads like billing a client in another state forces GST registration on the spot. A notification most freelancers have never seen says otherwise, for services under the threshold.
6 min read
Entity and tax
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Foreign clients without the GST leak: export of services and the LUT
Zero-rating a foreign invoice takes five conditions, a Letter of Undertaking you file yourself, and a payment window that runs longer than the figure circulating online.
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Entity and tax
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Freelancer taxes under the new Income-tax Act: what changed and what didn't
The sections everyone learned by heart, 44ADA and 194J, are gone from the statute book. The numbers behind them mostly are not.
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Entity and tax
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Do you need an IEC to invoice a foreign client?
The statute reads like a plain service exporter never needs one. Ask your bank the week you invoice a client abroad and you may hear the opposite, and both answers can be correct at once.
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Entity and tax
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Which registrations does a freelancer actually need?
Four different regulators each run their own registration, and a freelancer chasing one often assumes it covers the other three. It never does.
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Entity and tax
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Protecting the name you work under
GST and Udyam make your name visible to the tax department and your bank. Neither one stops a stranger from using it. Trademark law is the registration that does, and the class you file under decides half of what it costs you.
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Entity and tax
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What GST registration actually asks you for
Crossing the threshold is the easy part to explain. Actually filing FORM GST REG-01 is where freelancers lose a week to a document nobody warned them about, or worse, to a query they didn't answer in time.
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Entity and tax
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Signing a client agreement: what actually makes it binding
Freelancers routinely assume a contract needs a witness, a notary stamp or a particular kind of paper to count. Mostly it doesn't. The exceptions that do exist are narrow, and worth knowing precisely because they're so easy to miss.
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Want any of this checked against your own situation?
Tell us what you sell and who pays you. We will come back with the registrations that apply, the paperwork worth putting in place, and what it costs.