Last date of Income Tax Return filing is approaching. All taxpayers have a lot of doubts and queries related to income tax. Though each query is different and unique but there are some common points which are useful for all taxpayers. Over last 10 years, the return filing process has simplified. Once it was unthinkable to file the return on your own. I used to pay Rs 4,000 for return filing in Mumbai. TRP was 1st major reform and max fees of a TRP was capped. Online tax filing turned the table upside down and completely simplified the entire process. In case, you have income only from salary, ... Read More
Online Income Tax filing is Now Truly Online
Online Income Tax filing is now truly online, thanks to Income Tax Department. Online Income Tax filing is mandatory if your income is more than 5 lakh during the financial year. Though the tax filing process is referred as Online Income Tax filing, but it is not truly online. Reason being, after Online Income Tax filing, the taxpayer is supposed to send signed ITR-V acknowledgement through Speed Post / Ordinary Post to CPC-Bangalore. I remember standing in a queue for 3 hours to speed post ITR-V acknowledgement. In my opinion, it is not an online Income Tax filing in the true sense. I am ... Read More
7 Advantages of Availing DigiLocker Service
DigiLocker, as the name suggests, is the Digital Locker launched by the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DietY), under the Ministry of Communications & IT. DigiLocker is a cloud storage and is one step forward towards dream of Digital India. Now you must be wondering, we already have cloud storage services like Dropbox etc then why we need 1 more. The answer is very simple, DigiLocker is a cloud service to avail Govt Services, which can be used for personal storage also. I am not going to discuss signup process in this post as it is very simple and DIY. You may CLICK ... Read More
How to Link Aadhaar Card to Voter Id Online?
Recently, an imp news article which went unnoticed was Election Commission's guidelines on "To Link Aadhaar Card to Voter Id". After Aadhaar is linked to LPG Connection, It is next important milestone. I do agree that there were glitches in online seeding of Aadhaar to LPG Connection. But we have to understand that projects of this scale and in the geographically vast country like India, it is very difficult to execute. Moreover, we cannot blame Govt for operational issues. The govt employees who were responsible for execution can be blamed. Though i was the 1st one to seed my Aadhaar with LPG ... Read More
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched by our Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi on Aug 28, 2014. The key objective of this scheme is Financial Inclusion i.e. to provide banking & financial services in affordable manner. Though we all know primary benefits of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana but lets discuss key inclusions and exclusions of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana for the benefit of readers. Highlights of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (a) Life insurance cover of Rs 30,000 (Applicable only if savings account is opened between Aug 15, 2014 and Jan 26, 2015) (b) ... Read More
How to Link Aadhaar to LPG Connection Online
From last 3 weeks, i was planning to visit my Gas Distributor & Link Aadhaar to LPG connection. Though i am not lazy person but the Gas Distributor is 10 Kms from my place. It was half a day job. Last Saturday, Before wasting half day :) i decided to search internet for any alternative. After some research, i found out a way to link Aadhaar to LPG Connection online. Its quite simple & will hardly take 5 mins. Thanks to UIDAI for making customer's life simple. I am listing down 4 simple steps to Link Aadhaar to LPG Connection online. Before you proceed to link Aadhaar to LPG, kindly ... Read More