The Income Tax Department vide its press release  mandated pre-filling of Mobile Number and Email ID before filing of return of an assessee.  Also a particular mobile number and email id can used max 4 times on the IT Department server. This has frustration and inconvenience to  lot of Income Tax Practitioners who were earlier filling assessee’ return on behalf of assessee.

The reason behind this seems to be that  intimations and correspondence with the assessee’ does not reach the assessee since the Email ID and Mobile No. provided are those of Income Tax Return preparers or CA’s or the lawyer who files the return. Further, the tax payers are not able to reset their password since the contact details provided (for email communication) may be the details of I Tax Return Preparer. It is true that by providing his own Email ID & the Mobile No., the practitioner is absolving the assessee with unwanted troubles. The assessee may not check his emails regularly & further may not understand the importance of SMS communication which happens with the Department. The practitioner is aware of Income Tax Act & takes corrective actions in case of any default. Further, the limitation of Email ID’s to 4 may not serve much purpose. This would only lead to creation of more Email ID’s by the practitioners to avoid inconvenience to clients who do not possess Email ID. We at Taxmantra.com fully support Income Tax Practitioners who are facing this uncalled for hardship especially in the middle of the tax season. We wish to inform our clients and users that Taxmantra.com is totally insulated from recent circular of IT dept regard to email and mobile number since we are a registered E-Return Intermediary registered with the IT department.  We are not required to login on behalf of each taxpayers, as we upload return from our secured server connected to IT department’s server. Further, in the each of ITR filed, we provide the email ids of respective taxpayers, thus the communication from IT department directly reaches to the taxpayers. Thus, be rest assured, Taxmantra.com is insulated from recent circular of IT dept with regard to email and mobile number for ITR filing . You can visit our ITR filing page for more on this by click here.