File your returns!

When July 31 nears our country every year, one for sure is witness to huge hoardings and TV advertisements to file in their IT returns. Earlier it would be the most cumbersome activity, one, because we’d fail to understand the innumerable papers to be filled in, two, we generally keep it to the last moment and begin fretting on the last day and worse of it all, complain against the government that they do not give enough time.

Now, with the pleasure of being able to fill IT returns online, it seems much easier and the pros do not end there. www.taxmile.com, in association with an Indian leading newspaper promotes filling IT returns online, that too in an environmental-friendly way. How? The answer is simple. You save consumption of paper and also by doing it online, it saves time and is much simpler.

It is said that each tax assessee, on an average, consumes 8-10 sheets of paper while filing returns manually. And out of 40.5 crore citizens, only 4.5 crore file it online. With all the mathematical calculations done, the amount of paper we use for filling the returns manually will be a monstrous number! Hence the online way will be the outright winner for sure.

How safe an online website is, one would ask. The website claims that there is a provision of issuing digital signatures as well. An instant acknowledgement is sent as soon as the income-tax department receives a completed tax return; the assessee is no longer vulnerable to data and identity theft. By filling it online, there is an extended deadline by seven hours too! Most importantly, one you begin filling your returns, you do not need to finish it all. There is also an option of saving your data and getting back to it later!

Environmental-friendly, simple, quick are adverbs which suit this website. What more? A quick peek into the website shows that it is not all about the serious work but also some fun competitions like winning trips to other countries, memorabilia of sorts and the like. Hopefully, the count from a mere 4.5 crore increases in the years to come.

My favorite line: I am not promoting the website but yes, I definitely want all of us to file our IT returns on time and as part of the ‘youth brigade’ we sure need to change and move ahead!