In a major step aimed at easing taxpayer grievances, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) announced that assessees filing I-T returns online will no longer have to send the paper acknowledgement by post as a new Aadhaar-based electronic verification code has been launched to authenticate the document.
The CBDT, the I-T department's apex policy-making body, has introduced a new column in the ITRs for 2015-16 where an e-filer can provide his Aadhaar number, which will have to be authenticated on the official website of the department via a onetime password (OTP). “A new electronic verification code has been included as the new mode to verify e-returns. The facility will soon be hosted on the website of the e-filing link of the department. Taxpayers no longer need to send the ITR-V paper document to the CPC in Bengaluru, thus ending the cumbersome process which was robbing the e-filing of its ease and fun,“ a senior I-T officer said.
The proceeswill require the e-filer to register his Aadhaar number in the ITR after which the UIDAI database will send an OTP to the registered mobile number of the taxpayer which will have to be authenticated on the e-filing website.
A number of taxpayers have earlier complained to the department that despite sending the hard copy of ITR-V by “speed or registered post“ their forms were being acknowledged by CPC as “not received“. and hence the department has since long been looking at options to do away with this system altogether.
The CBDT, the I-T department's apex policy-making body, has introduced a new column in the ITRs for 2015-16 where an e-filer can provide his Aadhaar number, which will have to be authenticated on the official website of the department via a onetime password (OTP). “A new electronic verification code has been included as the new mode to verify e-returns. The facility will soon be hosted on the website of the e-filing link of the department. Taxpayers no longer need to send the ITR-V paper document to the CPC in Bengaluru, thus ending the cumbersome process which was robbing the e-filing of its ease and fun,“ a senior I-T officer said.
The proceeswill require the e-filer to register his Aadhaar number in the ITR after which the UIDAI database will send an OTP to the registered mobile number of the taxpayer which will have to be authenticated on the e-filing website.
A number of taxpayers have earlier complained to the department that despite sending the hard copy of ITR-V by “speed or registered post“ their forms were being acknowledged by CPC as “not received“. and hence the department has since long been looking at options to do away with this system altogether.
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