<h1>Ease of doing business reforms streamline compliance, expand credit access, modernise customs and simplify tax certainty for investors.</h1> The Union Budget 2026-27 and related policy measures present a coordinated reform package to enhance ease of doing business by reducing compliance complexity, improving tax certainty and rationalising penalties, expanding access to finance through credit guarantee schemes and a digital Credit Assessment Model, liberalising insurance sector investment norms, modernising customs and trade facilitation with AEO benefits and electronic cargo clearances, and consolidating regulatory frameworks including master directions and a unified securities code to improve predictability and transparency.