Now Tax Filing is at your finger tips. We are happy to announce the start of online tax return preparation and filing services at Taxguru. You can file ITR-1 and ITR-2 returns in few simple steps. Some salient features and advantages of this service:

Income Tax department has released utility of ITR-1 for online filing of Income Tax return for A.Y. 2010-11/ F.Y. 2009-10. The same can be downloaded from the following link:-Download Return Preparation Software – ITR-1 (Saral II) Excel Utility (Version 1.0)

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has come out with a new income tax Form – Saral-II . The new form aims at making the process of filing tax returns easier for individual taxpayers. The form is to be used to file the income tax returns for the financial year 2009-10 (assessment year 2010-11 ).

The Finance Ministry has come out with ‘Saral-II’, the new income tax returns form, that seeks to make tax filing easy on the assessee and gather information on TDS paid on salary and interest. The Saral-II, a two-page form, was mentioned by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget speech for 2010-11.

CBDT notifies New Income Tax Return Form SARAL II (ITR 1) for Assessment Year 2010-11 for Individuals having income from Salary/Pension/Income from One House Property (Excluding loss brought forward from previous years) / Income from Other Sources (Excluding winning from Lottery and Income from Race Horses). CBDT also notifies Income Tax Return Verification Form ITR-V for Assessment Year 2010-11 for SARAL II (ITR-1) ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4, ITR-5, ITR-6 & ITR-8 transmitted electronically without digital signature.

In CIT vs. Kelvinator of India Ltd. 256 ITR 1 the Full Bench of the Delhi High Court was considering a case of reopening u/s 147 within 4 years from the end of the assessment year. The Court held that when a regular order of assessment is passed in terms of section 143 (3) of the Act, a presumption can be raised that such an order has been passed on application of mind.

The government is considering to re-introduce one-pager ‘Saral form for filing income tax return. The form was discontinued in 2007-08 and instead of that ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-3 and ITR-4 were introduced for individual taxpayers.

Income Tax Department released on yesterday 15/06/2009 software utility for E-Filing of Income tax Return for Partnership firms i.e. ITR-5 and Income Tax Return for E-Filing of Companies i.e. ITR-6. Department already released ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-3 and ITR-4. We can access the same at given below link:-

ITR-1 return of income for individuals having income from salary/ pension/ family pension and not having any other income except income by way of interest Chargeable to income-tax under the head Income from other sources; (ii) ITR-2 return of income for Individuals and Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) not having any income under the head Profits or gains of business or profession;

Filing of Income Tax returns is a legal obligation of every Individual/HUF whose total income for the previous year has exceeded the maximum amount that is not chargeable for income tax under the provisions of the I.T Act, 1961. Income Tax Department has introduced a convenient way to file these returns online using the Internet.