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Section 44AB Tax Audit: Who Needs It and What Are the Turnover Limits

TaxSocial Editorial Team · Mar 5

Audit

Section 44AB tax audit applies if your business turnover exceeds Rs 1 crore or professional receipts cross Rs 50 lakh. Here are the limits and penalties.

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Proposed Restriction on Big Four Audits in Sensitive Sectors — PMO Evaluating Major Policy Shift

TaxSocial Editorial Team · Apr 9

Audit

PMO is considering restricting Big Four firms from auditing sensitive sectors due to data security concerns. ICAI has been asked to strengthen domestic audit capacity. Final decision is awaited.

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ICAI Tightens UDIN for Tax Audits: What Field-Level Validation Under Section 44AB Means From 1 April 2026

TaxSocial Editorial Team · Apr 5

Audit

From 1 April 2026, the ICAI UDIN portal enforces field-level validation across all sub-clauses of Section 44AB, requires PAN as a mandatory input, and caps tax audit UDINs at 60 per partner. A practical walk-through of what has changed, why, and how the tax audit workflow needs to adjust.

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Financial Modelling for a Real Estate Project: The Cash-Flow Model That Survives RERA, the Lender and the Auditor

Harsh Vyas CA · Aug 25

Audit

A real estate project model is not a P&L forecast with a construction schedule bolted on. Three rules bind it: the RERA 70% escrow, a GST scheme with no input credit, and revenue that lands at possession. How to build the model around them.

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ICAI Has Rewritten the Balance Sheet for Every Proprietor, Partnership Firm and HUF: The Non-Corporate Format, the Comparatives Trap and What Your Auditor Must Report From This September

Harsh Vyas CA · Sep 8

Audit

ICAI's Guidance Note on Financial Statements of Non-Corporate Entities is live: turnover above Rs 5 crore from FY 2025-26, everyone from FY 2026-27. The vertical format, the previous-year figures you must recast, the notes it demands, and what the auditor reports if you skip it.

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Documents Your CA Needs for the Tax Audit: The 15-Item Checklist for AY 2026-27 (and Which Form 3CD Clause Each One Feeds)

Harsh Vyas CA · Sep 11

Audit

The tax audit report for AY 2026-27 is due 30 September 2026. Here is the list a tax auditor needs from a client, in one folder: books and bank statements, GST and TDS returns, the fixed-asset and loan registers, the cash-transaction schedule, the MSME supplier list, the supplier GSTIN master for clause 44, and eight more, each tied to the Form 3CD clause it answers.

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Tax Audit vs Statutory Audit vs GST Audit: Three Laws, Three Triggers, and Which Ones Apply to You

Sachin Mohite · Sep 11

Audit

Tax audit (Section 44AB, turnover and cash tests, 30 September), statutory audit (Companies Act for every company; LLP Rules exempt an LLP within Rs 40 lakh turnover or Rs 25 lakh contribution) and GST audit (no CA certification since 1 August 2021; self-certified GSTR-9C above Rs 5 crore, plus departmental audit under Section 65 and special audit under Section 66). Who needs which, and where one report serves two.

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Tax Audit Limit AY 2026-27: Section 44AB, 44AD, 44ADA Thresholds, Cash-Receipts Test & Basic Exemption Limit Decoded

TaxSocial Editorial Team · Apr 24

Income Tax

Tax audit applicability AY 2026-27: Section 44AB (Rs. 1 Cr / Rs. 10 Cr under 5% cash test), 44AB profession Rs. 50 L, 44AD presumptive Rs. 2 / 3 Cr, 44ADA Rs. 50 / 75 L, new-regime BEL Rs. 4 lakh per FA 2025, plus the 44AD(4) five-year lock-in rule and flowchart corrections.

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Tax Audit AY 2026-27: Form 3CD Changes, the 30 September Due Date and a Working Checklist for FY 2025-26

Vijay R S · Sep 7

Income Tax

Tax audit for FY 2025-26 (AY 2026-27) stays under the 1961 Act on Forms 3CA/3CB with 3CD, due 30 September 2026. Notification 23/2025 rewrote Clause 22 (MSME), added Clause 31 codes and Clause 36B (buyback), dropped Clauses 28-29. What changed, why Form 26 does not apply, and a checklist.

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Tax Audit Due Date 30 September 2026: The Section 271B Penalty If You Miss It (0.5% of Turnover, up to Rs 1.5 Lakh), and the Fee That Replaces It Next Year

Vijay R S · Sep 11

Income Tax

Miss the 30 September 2026 tax-audit date for AY 2026-27 and Section 271B lets the Assessing Officer levy 0.5% of turnover or gross receipts, capped at Rs 1.5 lakh. It is discretionary, and Section 273B waives it for reasonable cause. From tax year 2026-27 the Income-tax Act, 2025 replaces it with a fixed fee: Rs 75,000 for up to a month, Rs 1.5 lakh after.

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Tax Audit Due Date Extension AY 2026-27: Latest Update as at 17 September 2026 (No CBDT Circular Yet, 30 September Stands)

Harsh Vyas CA · Sep 17

Income Tax

Status as at 17 September 2026: the AY 2026-27 tax audit report is still due 30 September. No CBDT circular under Section 119 has issued. Dated update log, the 2022-2025 extension record with circular numbers, who has asked for what, where a circular appears first, and what a late report costs.

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Form 26 Tax Audit Report Under the Income-tax Act, 2025: What Replaces Forms 3CA, 3CB and 3CD From Tax Year 2026-27

Harsh Vyas CA · Sep 4

Income Tax

Form 26 is the single tax audit report under Section 63 of the Income-tax Act, 2025 and Rule 47 of the 2026 Rules. It folds Forms 3CA, 3CB and 3CD into Parts A to D, applies from tax year 2026-27 (first reports due 30 September 2027) and is not for the FY 2025-26 audit. Structure, changes, signing.

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Five Ways Turnover Gets Computed Wrong for Tax Audit — and Why This Is the One Mistake You Cannot Fix in Form 3CD

Sachin Mohite · Sep 18

Income Tax

Every tax audit question starts with one number, and it is the number most likely to be wrong. Get the turnover figure wrong and you do not make a reporting error — you conclude that no audit was needed at all. Five ways it happens, from the statute.

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The Tax Audit Mistakes ICAI's Review Board Keeps Finding: Ten Form 3CD Clauses, and What Each One Actually Asks For

Harsh Vyas CA · 1d

Income Tax

The "mistakes identified by TAQRB" list doing the rounds is genuine: ICAI printed it clause by clause in its Revised 2026 Guidance Note on tax audit. What the list leaves out is the rule behind each point. Clauses 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 40, and how to report each one right.

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The Finance Act 2026 Cut the Tax Audit Window From 61 Days to 30: Why 30 September Must Move to 31 October, and How to Fix the Law

Harsh Vyas CA · Sep 7

Income Tax

The Finance Act 2026 moved the non-audit business ITR date to 31 August but left the tax audit report at 30 September. The working audit window fell from 61 to 30 days. The September calendar, what CBDT did in 2024 and 2025, and a two-part fix: extend to 31 October now, then re-link the law.

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Section 44AB Tax Audit: Who Needs It and What Are the Turnover Limits

Proposed Restriction on Big Four Audits in Sensitive Sectors — PMO Evaluating Major Policy Shift

ICAI Tightens UDIN for Tax Audits: What Field-Level Validation Under Section 44AB Means From 1 April 2026

Financial Modelling for a Real Estate Project: The Cash-Flow Model That Survives RERA, the Lender and the Auditor

ICAI Has Rewritten the Balance Sheet for Every Proprietor, Partnership Firm and HUF: The Non-Corporate Format, the Comparatives Trap and What Your Auditor Must Report From This September

Documents Your CA Needs for the Tax Audit: The 15-Item Checklist for AY 2026-27 (and Which Form 3CD Clause Each One Feeds)

Tax Audit vs Statutory Audit vs GST Audit: Three Laws, Three Triggers, and Which Ones Apply to You

Tax Audit Limit AY 2026-27: Section 44AB, 44AD, 44ADA Thresholds, Cash-Receipts Test & Basic Exemption Limit Decoded

Tax Audit AY 2026-27: Form 3CD Changes, the 30 September Due Date and a Working Checklist for FY 2025-26

Tax Audit Due Date 30 September 2026: The Section 271B Penalty If You Miss It (0.5% of Turnover, up to Rs 1.5 Lakh), and the Fee That Replaces It Next Year

Tax Audit Due Date Extension AY 2026-27: Latest Update as at 17 September 2026 (No CBDT Circular Yet, 30 September Stands)

Form 26 Tax Audit Report Under the Income-tax Act, 2025: What Replaces Forms 3CA, 3CB and 3CD From Tax Year 2026-27

Five Ways Turnover Gets Computed Wrong for Tax Audit — and Why This Is the One Mistake You Cannot Fix in Form 3CD

The Tax Audit Mistakes ICAI's Review Board Keeps Finding: Ten Form 3CD Clauses, and What Each One Actually Asks For

The Finance Act 2026 Cut the Tax Audit Window From 61 Days to 30: Why 30 September Must Move to 31 October, and How to Fix the Law

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