ClearTax, India’s largest income tax returns e-filing platform, has partnered with IDBI Bank to offer free online income tax filing services to its existing and new customers. IDBI Bank customers can now avail the benefits of e-filing through ClearTax’s easy-to-use and secure platform to file their tax returns.
As part of this strategic partnership, ClearTax will also offer special discounts on its Chartered Accountant assisted e-filing plans. This service has been extended to all IDBI customers, including defense personnel, government employees, salaried account holders, HNIs and NRIs.
Tax filing historically is an intimidating process for many people. Taxpayers often face issues dealing with changes to tax forms or get stuck when they have a question. With ClearTax, IDBI Bank customers get a much simpler experience for e-Filing. Benefits include Live chat and support agents who handle queries customers may have. With Form-16 upload feature, salaried customers can just upload Form-16s and their tax forms get filled out with relevant information automatically on ClearTax.
Speaking about the strategic partnership, Archit Gupta, CEO of ClearTax, said
ClearTax was born out of the need to simplify the process of e-filing. We do this by focusing on the user experience and technology. We have proven track record of lakhs of satisfied customers who have used our platform to file their returns within minutes. Partnering with IDBI, will help more taxpayers and provide them with an easy way to file their ITR.
ClearTax makes tax return filing extremely easy by automatically preparing tax returns from Form-16. Users upload their Form-16 and the information is read automatically & filled in to the tax form.
Additionally, customers can also file their returns on-the-go by downloading the Android App from Google Play Store
About ClearTax
Founded in the year 2011, ClearTax is the largest third-party tax website in India and is run by a close-knit group of 35 people coming from reputed institutions like IIT, BITS Pilani, The Kellogg School of Management, Harvard Business School and many others. It was established by Raja Ram Gupta, a professional Chartered Accountant, and his son Archit Gupta who is an entrepreneur with a Bachelors of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIT Guwahati and a Masters in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with Srivatsan Chari and Ankit Solanki. In FY 2014-15 ClearTax emerged as the platform that 1% of India, with its population of more than 1.25 billion, uses to file its IT returns. For more information, please refer ClearTax