How I saved over ₹50,000 in taxes as a freelance dev using Section 44ADA (and te

<p>Every thread about freelancing from India gets the same answers: sign up for Upwork, try Braintrust, make a Contra profile. I followed that advice for a while and heard nothing

<p>A day rate is not simply your hourly rate times eight.</p> <p>A working day rarely contains eight <em>billable</em> hours — meetings, context-switching, and admin eat into it —

<p>If you've freelanced as a developer for long enough, you've probably had one of these:</p> <ul> <li>The client says the feature "isn't finished" three weeks after you shipped