How To File and E-Return

The Income Tax Department of India has facilitated the process of e-Filing of Returns by enabling the Internet website for e-Filing of Returns. This web site is hosted at the Income Tax Department's web site itself, and is the internet site the tax payer sees. It accepts the e-Return filed by user in the form of an XML file for further processing. It allows the end user to Register, Download various utilities free of cost , to help in e-Filing and upload of e-Returns. It is a one-stop for anyone requiring to e-File their Returns in India.

The Home Page
The Home Page is the default page seen when accessing the Internet website for e-Filing of Returns.The central area of the page contains the major announcements. The Left Navigation Bar of the page focuses on the various ITS Forms (Form 1, Form 2, Form 2F, Form 3, and Form 3B).On the Right hand side, there is a provision for a One-Time Registration of a New Member, while just above it is the Login provision for Registered Users. Registration of Members is free of cost. User has to register only once and can use that Id and password for further years as well.

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On clicking on any of the Forms on the Left Navigation Bar, the options for that specific Form will be available for reading and can be further clicked to get detailed information.

The example shown in this image is the set of options available when clicking on the link Form 1. Clicking each option here will open the details associated with that option.
The options are
Overview: Giving a brief overview related to ITS Form 1.
Who Should Submit this Form: Brief details about who is eligible to submit the selected Form.
Downloads: Opens the page from where downloads specifically for Form 1 are available. These include the Client Side Utilities for Form 1.(You must be logged in to access this)
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Help: Tips and Assistance on e-Filing Form 1
Submit Your Returns: This leads to the page where the validated XML e-Returns file needs to be uploaded. (You must be logged in to access this)

What about the Other Services?

Other Services like find your PAN, find your TAN, Print Challan etc. are still available here on this website as a service from this website.In order to access the same, user needs to Click Other Services in the Top Navigation Menu of the website and click on the required Sub-Menu. The image shows the Sub-Menu's available at this point in time which can further be clicked on and detailed information can be taken.

E - Filing Related Provisions : Old And New

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Who Can File E-Return and in which Form (Whether mandatory or not?)

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Relevant Laws and Rules relating to the Efiling of Returns

• Vide Notification No. 128/2006, dated 1-6-2006 S.O. 848 (E), Form 2F was notified.


• Vide NOTIFICATION NO. 189/2006, dated 24-7-2006 Forms 1, 2, 3, 3B were notified


• Vide Notification No. 253 of 2004, dated 30th Sep., 2004 S.O.1073(E), Electronic Furnishing of Return of Income Scheme, 2004 was notified for efiling of returns:


• ----An eligible person may, at his option, furnish his return of income which he is required to furnish under sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Act for the assessment year 2004-05 and any subsequent assessment year, to an e-Return intermediary.


• ----Digital signature, e-return, e-return intermediary were defined in this scheme


• Circular 9, CBDT dated 10/10/2006

Process of E filing Of Returns

The below flowchart shows the process of e filing of returns with the income tax department.

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E-Filing of Returns

What is e-Filing?


1.The process of electronically filing Income tax returns through the internet using the government secured website is known as e-filing.

2.It is mandatory for companies to submit the Income tax returns electronically for AY 2006-07 and onwards.

3.As per the directions of Incometax Department, any company return submitting without a e-filing receipt should not be accepted

4.E-filing is possible with or without digital signature (digital signature can be purchased from the government designated offices.


Types of e-Filing
There are three ways of filing returns electronically:


Option 1: Use of digital signature where no paper return is required to be submitted.

Option 2: File without use of digital signature where paper return has to be submitted with which the efiling acknowledgement number is required to be submitted.

Option 3: File through an e-return intermediary who will do e-filing and also file the paper return on behalf of the taxpayer with which the efiling acknowledgement number is required to be submitted.

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Google Launched Google Calender for Mobiles

After launching Gmail application for Mobiles, which become hugely popular with the mobile users to access there mails on the go, Google launched Mobile friendly version of Google Calender for Mobiles. After all Google realized that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere and Google's Calendar team main goal is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible.

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Earn money by just receiving SMS on your Cell phone

Yes, now you can earn decent money by receiving SMSes on your cell phone. mGinger will pay to read SMS ads on your cell phone and you can even choose timings when you want to receive SMS ads and of which products. You will get cheque from mGinger once your earning reaches Rs 300. Visit mGinger for sign-up.

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Why send SMS when you can chat on mobile instant messenger ?

If you spend lots of time on your cell phone sending SMS to your friends. Well, chatting through your phone may be a better option for you. For one,it works out cheaper than sending a volley of text messages across.

Today most modern phones offer Java compatibility, email and MMS support, Internet connectivity via GPRS/EDGE and an intelligent operating system such as symbian which is more than enough for mobile instant messaging and if you are interested in chatting on Live Messenger or Google Talk with your phone, then there are lots of programs available out there and most of them are available free of cost. You can either download the application on your computer and then transfer to the mobile phone or directly download onto the your cell phone via GPRS. So if you can't wait to get started, here are some of the instant messenger you should be looking at.

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If you don't already have a Jabber ID, you should download and install the PSI Jabber client on your main computer from http://psi-im.org and then register a new Jabber account for yourself.

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Windows Cardspace brings us to the concept of digital identity. Windows cardspace aims to help you create and manage digital identities that can be used over the internet to register and login to websites, or basically conduct any sort of transaction. Such identity cards can either be self-issued-meaning that you can create your own or be offered by providers such as banks and employers. In essence, with cardspace, you can say goodbye to usernames and passwords. The next time you wish to login to a website, you merely send your information card to the site and you are in and you can also use the same card to login into multiple websites. Cardspace comes preinstalled with vista. If you don,t have Vista, you will have to download Microsoft's .net framework 3.0. Note that the net framework 3.0 will only install on Windows XP and newer operating systems. While Internet Explorer 7.0 is recomended, a third-extension written by Microsoft developers is already available for firefox.

Once you have completed the prerequisties, creating your own information card is quite simple. Click on the start button and select the control panel. Now double-click on the Windows Cardspace icon. Then click on the 'add card' option and fill in the required information and your card is ready to use. This card can now be sent to any websites for registration and logging in. Cardspace reduces the risk of being 'phished'(tricked into providing sensitive information over the internet to unverified sources) or key-logger (where a program runs in the background and picks up any usernames and passwords that you enter). Since the information card is stored in an encrypted formaton your computer, no other user, including yourself, from any other location can login under your alias.To use your digital identity from another PC, you will have to create a password-protected backup from the original computer. You can carry the backup on a USB stick.

Limitation: Now Cardspace technology in its initial stage and support for cardspace is currently low, you can expect it to pick up as more users migrate to Vista, Once that's done though, you won't have to pull out your credit card and manually key in the details ever again.

Create a new user account or login using your Information Card at sandbox.

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