Tuesday, July 12, 2011

E-filing ITR1

I e-filed my ITR1 (SAHAJ) this assessment year (2011-2012) for the first time. It is totally an easy way to go about. All these years I payed to the intermediators to file returns on my behalf and now I feel bad that I spent unnecessarily for an activity I could do for free by myself.

All these years I stood away from e-filing because I get afraid-of by just looking at the Excel utility assuming that it would be more complicated for me to understand. This year I dared to look into the details and found it very easy. I think the utilities' look-and-feel should be improved as it scares us :-)

Listed below are the references which helped me to file online for free:
https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in (Need to have a login)
http://incometaxindia.gov.in
https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/downloads08-09/ITR_Guides_2008_09/ITR1_V1.1_User_Guide_2008_09.pdf (Excel step by step guide, it is old one, however there are no much changes)
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080706054659AAiwLv9
http://incometaxindia.gov.in/ao/firstlevel.asp (To find the Assessing Officer)

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