Tax return - glitch ... please help?

Taxation
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i faced two issues before filing my tax returns…

  1. my form 10BE (donation for annadana seva) shockingly did not carry my PAN at all (my old passport number was there instead)… I use a pseudonym everywhere to log in & the form had that. Just imagine… My log in credentials can be anything but my donation form carried all real details - first name, last name (which i generally don’t use anywhere except bank/ taxes etc) , PAN… So they pulled out data using the wrong source to generate form 10BE… I freaked out when i recd the 10BE in mid july & frantically started following up… took more than 14 days to get it corrected with my real name + PAN.

  2. my form 16 which was sent to me just less than a week before 31st July had major mistakes - standard deduction & professional tax was missing… Again chased up with them to get it corrected. They have outsourced accounting to an external agency. The guy said “you go ahead file your returns with corrected info & i will correct & send the form 16 to you after 7th Aug because I am very busy. But don’t tell this to anyone”. I tried pleading but he was adamant about it. I doubted his intentions (he wouldn’t have done anything about it) & I wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it either.

to complicate matters, I am no longer employed there. So I thought a bit & then sent an email to him requesting for corrections & copied my ex bosses … Guess what? It worked & he made the corrections & sent it within 2 days.

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posting here for a lark…

stayed up the whole night & filed my ITR-3 (year after year JIT mgmt when it comes to filinf my tax returns) … submitting it (the last mile) was a struggle & e-payment of taxes itself took 4 hours for some weird reason… I don’t know how all the CAs are handling this while retaining their sanity? How’s the josh this yr @Jason_Castelino ?

btw i moved to the default new regime this year… had to forego the carry forward losses… :frowning:

& she says “simplification of taxes”… that too after whatever Budget-2024 was presented last week! :roll_eyes:

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You will be surprised to hear it. It’s very very smooth.
We are trained in much worse conditions in past that we find it absolutely bearable. :joy::joy:
10 years back it was so bad that every due date was extended because the site couldn’t function in the last 3 days. So being a positive person I see good improvement. :joy::joy::joy:

Also, what works for most of us is we don’t use income tax portal for filling details or making payment. We have third party softwares which are integrated. So we keep all the returns ready and also generate json file. When site works fine, it’s just one click away. Even today we filed more than 50 returns. Hope I am not jinxing it for tomorrow :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

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Jason generating json file … Cool stuff :wink:

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Yeh badi hi acchi baat kahi aapne

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#bmkj meme

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Yeah preparing JSON seems the easiest since you don’t have to interact with ITD portal.

Is that what the offline ITD tool is for? Or do you recommend any tools.

Also does the offline ITD tool need internet/login to work or is it completely offline? I want to test some weird tax calculations but don’t want it to get logged against my PAN :smile:

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I guess. But we don’t use that either. :nerd_face:
We use a third party offline software.

Internet is not required.