What's new in Nexus

A new workspace — one sidebar on every page, and your history where you can reach it

• One sidebar, on every page

  The thin ribbon and the hover-out rail are gone. Every page now carries the same ink sidebar: Research (Ask, Bolt, Dive, Bare Acts, Timeline, Watch, both crosswalks), the Desks (TDS, Notice, Schedule III, Computations) and your Firm (Matters, Firm memory, History, Team), with New research at the top and ⌘K at the bottom. Collapse it to icons when you want the room — it remembers. On a phone the menu opens it as a drawer. The bar above the page says what the session is doing — retrieving, composing, answer ready — and the as-of date the answer was researched against.

  Open the research desk →

• The research desk greets you and shows the way in

  The desk opens with your name and one composer: the question on top, attach, Quick and Ask beneath it. Three worked questions to try sit under it, then the desks, then the last three things you asked — one tap to pick up where you left off. While an answer composes, a Retrieve → Read sources → Compose strip shows which step the run is actually in, every source retrieved is a link you can read in the meantime, and the headline only says “composing” once it is.

  Ask a question →

• History, redesigned around your questions

  Your sessions are grouped by day — Today, Yesterday, then the dates — each led by the session's name (click “rename” to give it one) with the question beneath, when it ran, the Act it was answered under, and the verdict's confidence at the edge. Search by question or name — press “/” to jump to the box — and filter to completed or failed runs. Open any row to land on the full answer with its citations and follow-ups intact.

  Open History →

• Your recent sessions, one click from any page

  The sidebar carries a Recent group with your last five sessions by name, on every page, so a past answer is one click away rather than a trip through History. The desk shows the last three under the composer.

  See your recent sessions →

• The answer reads as a document

  The verdict sits in its own card, the figures beneath it with tabular numerals, the tabs in a strip that stays at the top as you scroll, and “What to do now”, the alerts and the cited provisions each in their own card. A finished answer is marked as final in its header, so a run that is done never looks like one that stalled.

  Read a recent answer →

• The desks, the tools and the public pages wear the same shell

  The TDS Desk, Notice responder, Schedule III, Computations, Bare Acts, Watch, Timeline, Dive, Matters, Firm memory, Team and the exchange-rates tool all sit inside the same workspace, so nothing looks like it came from a different product. The 1961 ↔ 2025 crosswalk, the Rules 1962 ↔ 2026 crosswalk, this changelog and the guide keep working without an account — a visitor sees the public pages and a Sign in door, and the full workspace once signed in.

  The 1961 ↔ 2025 crosswalk →

The TDS Desk — which section, what rate, by when, and what a miss costs

• Describe a payment, get the section

  Type what was paid for — "hire of a crane", "referral charges", "server hosting", "uniforms for guards" — say who paid whom, and the desk names the head under §§192–206C and its row in the 2025 Act's s.393 table, computes the tax on the amount and date you give (thresholds, catch-up on crossing, no-PAN rate, §197 certificate), and gives the deposit, statement and certificate dates. A genuine two-way call is shown as one, with both sides and the statutory reason — never a confident guess.

  Open the TDS Desk →

• Upload the payment register, take away the Clause 34(a) working

  An .xlsx or .csv register (or rows pasted from Excel) is read by its headers, every line placed under a head and aggregated per payee within the financial year, and judged: TDS required, below threshold, or needs a call. Lines the rules will not decide stay out of the totals until you pick a section for them on the page. The export is a workbook whose Clause 34(a) sheet is SUMIFs over the checked register — live formulas, never pasted values.

  Register check →

• What a miss costs, as a live calc graph

  For any payment the desk prices the default: §201(1A) interest on both legs (1% to deduction, 1.5% to deposit, by months or part), the §40(a)(ia) 30% disallowance and its tax cost, and the §234E fee capped at the tax — with the 2025 Act's s.398 / s.35 / s.427 mirrors when the payment falls on or after 1 April 2026. Edit a date or a figure and the chain recomputes; the XLSX carries the formulas.

  Which section? → If this was missed →

• The rate card, 1961 beside 2025

  Every TDS and TCS head on one screen with the FY 2025-26 threshold and rate as the section states it, the form it goes on, the 2025 Act table row it becomes from 1 April 2026, and a doorway into the living section. Rates the section leaves to the Finance Act are labelled as such.

  Rate card →

Every citation is a doorway — open the exact limb the answer rests on

• Click a citation, land on the clause — not the section

  A citation now opens on the precise limb the answer relies on, with that limb highlighted in the bare act and the plain-English reading written for THAT limb in the context of your question — not a summary of the whole section. Where the answer quotes a passage, the doorway finds the clause that passage came from, so §43B(b) opens on (b) rather than dropping you at the top of a long section to hunt.

  Try it on a live answer →

• Circulars, notifications, judgments and rulings each read as themselves

  A circular now opens with what it governs, the position it settles, who it binds, and why it is cited here. A judgment leads with the forum, the year and what was actually held. An advance ruling says plainly that it binds only its applicant and the jurisdictional officers — the thing most easily forgotten when a ruling is quoted at you. A notification leads with what it does and the date it takes effect. Previously every one of these opened wearing a section's masthead.

  Open a cited circular →

• Cite your own PDFs, and open them at the passage

  Attach a notice, an order or an agreement and the answer cites it the same way it cites a statute — the citation opens your document at the passage relied on, alongside the bare-act text it is being read against. Up to 7 MB per scanned PDF or image.

  Attach a document →

• Follow a reference without losing your place

  A cross-reference inside a provision opens in the same drawer, with a trail back to where you started. A reference the corpus does not hold says so honestly in place, instead of a dead click that appears to do nothing.

• The FAQ doorway, and CBDT's compounding guidance read properly

  Frequently-asked-questions circulars now open in a Q&A shape rather than as a wall of circular text, so the question you care about is the thing you land on. The CBDT compounding FAQ has been re-read end to end for letterhead noise and broken tokens.

• RBI notifications and IBBI, from the issuing authority

  RBI notifications and the IBBI lanes now flow in from their own sites, closing the authoritative-source audit. Effective dates were re-parsed across the notification corpus — a scan that had been silently re-reading the same slice every night now reaches all of it, so more notifications carry the date that actually matters.

• As-of-date answers respect supersession across the whole corpus

  A corpus-wide supersession audit now runs as a nightly maintenance pass, so asking a question as at an earlier date is less likely to surface an instrument that had already been replaced by then.

• Segmentation debt cleared, and the provision tree is checked corpus-wide

  The five instruments whose clause trees the harness could not parse are fixed at the parser — an Explanation that governs a whole section is no longer filed under whichever sub-section it happened to be printed beside, and a document's index no longer collides with its own body. All 70 harness instruments pass.

The reference shelf — exchange rates, guidance notes, standards you can cite

• The exchange rate the law actually asks for

  A rates page that starts from the purpose, not the currency: customs valuation under s.14 gets the CBIC notified rate, FEMA and Rules 26/115/128 questions get SBI TT buying, and everything else the FBIL/RBI reference — each resolved to the legally correct source and date, with conversion and bulk convert beside it.

  Open the exchange-rates tool →

• Nineteen ICAI Guidance Notes, readable and searchable

  The Guidance Notes a practice actually opens are now on the shelf next to the Acts: Tax Audit u/s 44AB in its Revised 2025 (Tenth) edition, Audit of Banks 2026, CARO 2020 as Revised 2022, IFC-over-financial-reporting, Consolidated Financial Statements, all three Schedule III divisions, the new Non-Corporate and LLP financial-statement formats, and the s.92E transfer-pricing report — every one sourced from ICAI's own CDN and cited back to it.

  Browse the Guidance Notes →

• Ind AS source links open again — from the notifying authority

  Every accounting and auditing standard was re-fetched from its issuing source this week. Ind AS citations now point at mca.gov.in — the authority that notifies them under the Companies (Ind AS) Rules 2015 — replacing ICAI download links that had stopped serving for every edition.

  Browse Ind AS →

• State GST notifications from more of the map

  Jammu & Kashmir, Puducherry and Dadra & Nagar Haveli–Daman & Diu flow in for the first time; Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are back after their portals changed underneath us. State-notification questions ground against the state's own text more often.

• As-on-date questions respect the date's own supersessions

  Ask a question as on a past date and an instrument superseded since then is treated as it stood on that date — not struck out with today's knowledge. Backdated advice stops inheriting the present.

• The ask bar stopped implying you did something wrong

  The composer no longer renders in an error state before you have typed anything, and when a question genuinely cannot be answered the message owns the limitation instead of blaming how the question was phrased.

Figures that check themselves, and the paperwork a firm asks for

• Every computed figure now agrees with the formula beside it

  Where a computation row shows its working, the figure is re-derived from that working before it reaches you, and the tab says how many figures moved. On a sweep of past answers, roughly one computation tab in eight carried a line that did not match its own formula — one stated ₹2,60,000 where the formula gives ₹6,01,600.

  Ask a computation question →

• A privacy notice and terms you can actually open

  Both are now real pages, and both are public — send the link to a client or paste it into a diligence questionnaire without asking anyone to sign in. The notice names every company that processes your firm's data and where each one sits. Wording still awaiting counsel is visibly marked as such rather than dressed up as settled.

  Read the privacy notice →

• The parts of an answer explain themselves, on hover or tap

  Two quiet labels in the verdict card — “the verdict”, “the figures” — say what each part of an answer is for, and only if you reach for them. Nothing runs on its own. Tapping works on a tablet now, which is where answers actually get read.

• Drafting the client's reply is no longer buried

  Turning a finished answer into the email you send sat as the last item at the foot of the Downloads tab, and users told us they never knew it existed. The entry point now sits in the answer header, beside the other things you do with a finished answer.

• The quick take stands down when you attach a document

  The few-second preliminary answer never received your attachment, so on “tell me about this document” it once described a case from the knowledge graph as though it were your file. With an attachment on the run it no longer speaks at all — you wait the extra moment for the full answer, which reads the document properly.

Answers you can click into, and confidence that has to be earned

• Diagrams are clickable, and they zoom

  A flow, decision tree or waterfall node that rests on a provision now opens the citation doorway on that provision — click or keyboard — instead of showing the reference as grey caption text. Every visual also opens full-size, so a chart too dense to read at a glance is one tap from legible.

  See it on an answer →

• The sources scrolling past while an answer composes are now links

  The live retrieval log used to be plain text you could only watch. Each row now opens: sections and rules into the Living Section reader, everything else to its official source. A node with neither stays plain rather than becoming a link to nowhere.

• An answer that cites nothing may no longer call itself settled

  Occasionally the model returned a confident, fully-formatted answer with no citations at all — and it did not look degraded. Such an answer now has its confidence tier capped and carries a warning you cannot miss, instead of one sentence hidden inside a collapsed group in the Citations tab. The reasoning itself is left untouched; only the unearned authority goes.

• Ask about a notification, get the amendment that changed it

  Reported by a user who “just had to go Google it”: asking what a parent notification says today returned the original text, which is how the corpus stores it. Retrieval now walks amendments in both directions, so naming 13/2017 also brings in 05/2022 — and the answer says plainly that the parent's own text predates the change.

• Criminal appeals no longer sit in a Chartered Accountant's corpus

  The Supreme Court crawler ingests every reported judgment, so judgments naming no tax or corporate enactment were reaching real query contexts — including two murder appeals. Case law is now filtered to the law a CA practises.

• Corpus freshness stopped counting next week's court diary

  The freshness date read 17 August while you were researching as on 11 August. Tribunals publish cause lists for upcoming weeks, so the newest document in the corpus was legitimately in the future — and a document nobody could have relied on yet is not evidence of how current the law is.

Both Income-tax Acts, side by side

• Read the same question under the 1961 Act or the 2025 Act

  A toggle on any income-tax answer re-composes it under the other Act, so you can see what the same facts look like on either side of the transition. The choice survives a refresh, is recorded against the answer in your history, and a side that fails to compose is a retry rather than a dead button.

  Try it on an income-tax question →

• Download any visual as a PNG

  Every diagram, chart and timeline in an answer carries a download control — straight into a memo, a deck or an email to the client.

An answer in under a minute, and a corpus that checked itself

• A grounded answer in under a minute

  The bolt lane trades breadth for speed: a cited answer with a clock on it, for the questions where a client is on the phone. The full research run stays a click away when the stakes deserve it.

  Try the bolt lane →

• Professional tax, all twenty-nine States and Union Territories

  Every State's Act and rate schedule from India Code — including the honest edges: the States that levy no professional tax at all, and the ones whose levy stands repealed. A State-level question is answered from that State's own law, not as if the levy were national.

• The corpus went back to the source

  Over two thousand statutory texts were re-checked character-by-character against the official publisher — CBIC, the Income-tax department, MCA, India Code — and every mismatch re-ingested. Eleven rescinded GST circulars are now flagged as rescinded where they appear, and one case citation that turned out not to exist anywhere was removed outright.

• Paste the whole representation

  The question box takes 20,000 characters, a pasted document quietly becomes an attachment, and when a request is declined the refusal says why instead of failing silently.

• Answers lead with the verdict

  Bullet-first structure and plainer language, straight from user feedback — the conclusion first, the reasoning under it, no throat-clearing.

• A shared run now takes follow-ups from a colleague

  Opening a run someone shared with you no longer stops at reading — the follow-up composer works for you too.