Now only 10 days are left to file income tax return. If you file income tax return after 31st July, then you will have to pay fine. That's why you can file income tax return online by yourself sitting at home. But before filing ITR, make sure that online platforms are not charging service fees from you. Because there are many income tax e-filing websites that charge service fees. At the same time, there are some websites which provide services for free.
If you file ITR online from the portal of Income Tax Department, then you will not have to pay any kind of fee. That is, the portal of the Income Tax Department will give you free services. If you file income tax return through famous portals like TaxBuddy, Clear, Tax2Win, TaxSpanner, MyITReturn and Quicko, then you will have to spend some money in the form of service fee charges.
free service website
According to the MyITReturn website, it is a free service website, but charges certain types of people as fees for filing income tax returns. The special thing is that this website does not charge anything for filing ITR from unemployed, house wife, pension dependent widows, students and retired persons. But service fees are charged from businessmen or people with high income.
1000 will have to pay an extra fee of Rs.
Similarly Taxspanner has not provided any relief for capital gains, losses while filing ITR. If you file ITR through Taxspanner, then an additional fee of Rs 1000 will have to be paid. Similarly, a special feature is available in Tax2Win. Here taxpayers with income less than Rs 1 lakh can file returns for free. But all types of taxpayers with income more than one lakh rupees will have to pay money as fees to file ITR.
Even after discount now taking Rs 299 as fee
At the same time, Clear, the online income tax filing website, has also not offered all its ITR filing plans for free. Since last year, Clear has also started charging for the simplified ITR filing service, which was earlier free. It is now charging Rs 299 as fee even after a discount of Rs 151.
Charges can reach up to Rs 3999 excluding GST
If your income is from crypto or other VDA and you want to file ITR through Clear, then you will have to pay minimum service charges of Rs 1949. At the same time, the maximum charges can reach Rs 3999 excluding GST. On the other hand, Taxbuddy website charges a hefty fee for filing income tax return. It charges service charges of Rs 5,999 excluding GST. The special thing is that whether a person has other sources of income or not, still it takes its charge.
