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As an individual taxpayer, I would not pay to use ClearTax. I have filed returns both on the Indian Government website and ClearTax. I do not see an added adva
by thepoet 11y ago
As an individual taxpayer, I would not pay to use ClearTax.
I have filed returns both on the Indian Government website and ClearTax. I do not see an added advantage with ClearTax, they show the same bunch of fields and as a last step, submit the data to the government website (I am not sure if the Government website crashes, how this will help ClearTax). I assume the only advantage is they can read your Name, addresses and gross salary data from the two page PDF you upload, not a big deal IMO.
As someone who has freelanced a bit, I would still not purchase their INR 5000+ plans. I have had CAs do it for 2500 or less. I assume the site is popular among first-timers or people who have not really tried the Income Tax website recently.
- ocean3 11y agoI have paid less then 500 for CA. But then in live in 2nd tier city.
- arihant 11y agoThe desirability of paying to reduce pain and interactions with humans to get a job done increases proportional to income. I'm sure we all have been at a point in life (college) where we would read Indian tax code to try and avoid paying that 2500 as well. That changed, and it would continue to change for most people. I would have other concerns, like privacy, but I doubt their pricing would come in my way. One less person to deal with is at least 3 hours of saved time.
- thepoet 11y agoThe point I made with individual tax pay is there is no pain, so I would not pay. In case of freelancers, ClearTax does not reduce your effort, instead of your local CA, you just have to deal with someone sitting in another city.