Esteemed Members,
Greetings !!
Wish you all a very Happy New Year 2026 !! May this year bring good health, knowledge and prosperity to us all. We had a great National Conference 2025 in December 2025 with your presence and support. We have landed in the year 2026 after delivery of a differently challenged year 2025 which had a different momentum altogether.
Income Tax filing work which theoretically started in July practically continued till the last day of 2025. GST Annual Filing took its own course in different styles by different professionals, though the prescribed form brought in certain changes which needed detailed manual working. Artificial Intelligence was mostly at the forefront throughout.
The year saw many new and landmark legislations which are very important for us professionally as they may bring new professional avenues opportunities for those who master these skills and rest of us who need to know it attest and assure professionals. These new legislations are waiting in pipeline for learning during the year 2026. The New Income Tax Act 2025 is waiting for all of us to explore the distinguishing features and changes in compliance and litigation that we shall see. 2026 is the year for New Income Tax Act.
India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and its rules which got implemented in phases, with key parts made effective from November 13, 2025 with the establishment of Data Protection Board for administering consent management and data principal rights.
The implementation of the four new Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 with effect from 21st November 2025, rationalising 29 existing labour laws for modernising labour regulations, enhancing workers' welfare and aligning the labour ecosystem with the evolving world of work with the objective of driving labour reforms for Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
As I keep saying, our profession always brings us at crossroads since its lifeblood is discipline and fearlessness of complexity. Unwavering commitment remains our identity. You will be happy to know that your Branch organized about 301 structured CPE hours programmes in the calendar year 2025 excluding the Chapters / Study Circles. I thank each one of you for the great spirit of learning and academics and encourage each one of you to keep raising the bar for ourselves to become better professionals each day.
I have firmly believed that learning never exhausts the mind, it only rejuvenates, recharges and raises us. A grand WOFA 2.0 curated by our Honorable President is awaiting us at Noida from 30th Jan to 1st Feb 2026. I urge you all to register (https://wofa.icai.org/register) and attend this mega event with your professional friends and associates for an outstanding experience of networking and connect besides learning and enjoyment.
I wish you all great learning, great identity and great growth ahead !!!!
Warm Regards,
CA. Raginee Goyal,
Chairperson
Guwahati Branch (EIRC), ICAI