Income Tax e-filing portal hamaratax performs intelligently Hamaratax boasts one of the best online tax e-filing portals in India. It’s the right time to extend such a tax service for interested tax payers. As per the last year statistics, income tax utilities were used by 36% of e-filers. But that may not be a self-assisted filing. The department offers different platforms for different income group, but a consolidated portal can bring an easier approach in managing, assessing and filing the taxes. Hamaratax is such a solution which is four years old and performing effortless e-filing efficiently. If you think e-filing was possible only for youngsters, think again. Smart modern e-filing portals properly guide people to do hassle free income filing online irrespective of their age.They facilitate income tax filing for people with salary, pension, and income from rent, capital gain or others. Freelancers, specialists, bloggers etc. can also file their income and tax easily. A few years back, tax filling has been a hectic task as it was a time consuming process for every tax payer. Most of the people and organizations used paper based filing systems which was quite difficult to manage and follow up. As our economy grows and the numbers of tax payers keep on increasing which in turn signifies the task of tax filing, validation refunds processing, infrastructure and resources to maintain and operate. The effort made by the Government of India was tremendous, to have a centralized processing center and a powerful online system for most of the activities related to Income Tax. The Income tax department becomes more people friendly and you can access relevant information from anywhere and at any time. Over a period of time, from the inception of e-filing in 2007-08, the number of e-filing in 2015-16 has crossed 4.3 Crores of tax payers with an increase of 26.83% compared to previous year HamraTax.com has come up with the state of the art technology, solution for e-filing the Income Tax Returns with a strong backup of a team of 15 CA’s. The HamaraTax Initiative has drawn the attention of tax payers for its intelligent features introduced in the website which wiped off most of the confusion and enabled a hassle-free mechanism in e-filing the Income Tax Returns. It also reduces the dependency for filing the income tax returns and the cost burden on the tax payer. The website features:- • Real time tax calculation’ • Simple and easy to use interface • Common man’s language and familiar tax technologies in data entry forms • Automated selection of ITR forms depending on the type of income entered, nullifies the confusion on selecting the ITR forms. • Live help and instructions on each data entry field and forms. • Intelligent forms avoiding unwanted form entries, and fetching required data • Tax planning tips and alerts to avoid errors while filing • Dedicated customer care is available with expert advice • Automated reminder facility on various due dates • Tie-ups with corporate enable the employees a hassle free e-filing with prefilled form 16 • Blogs and forums to help the tax payers with useful information and queries. Challenges in e-filing Income Tax filing is still a difficult process for majority of tax-payers. Even though the income tax department came up with the e-filing utilities, the biggest challenges for the tax payers are:- • Complexities with the technical terms of Tax jargons and terminologies. • Identifying the correct ITR forms one-self is complex criteria driven and mostly confusing because of the change in various government regulations. • Identifying the correct utility based on the ITR form selection and assessment year is also an issue • As the Income Tax Java Application are based on specific version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), there is a need of downloading and installing the correct Java Runtime Environment on your desktop. • Filing the Income Tax Returns for multiple/previous years also a mundane task as you need to download multiple java Applications offered by the department. • Timely support or assistance is also a major concern for the tax payers. As per the last year (2015-16) statistics, out of the total 349 million e-fillers, around 161 million are from salaried class and pensioners. That means around 46% of the total e-fillers are from normal income group. Out of the 506 million registered users 349 million have e-filed their returns in FY 2015-16. Getting proper instructions for e-filing the Income Tax Returns is very important for a normal income tax assesse. Everyone may not have direct access to Chartered Accountants. Since government wants to connect all services of people together, dependencies of technology is inevitable. An efficient error free documentation is possible for all. It is the need of the hour to spread the technology intervention in services offered.