The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified the JSON scheme for the filing of ITR-7.
The Income Tax Department had given the free tax return preparation software on the downloads page that is obedient to the data quality needs. But, there are some commercially available software or websites that provide the return preparation utility. To ensure the quality of data of ITRs prepared via this commercially available software several kinds of validation rules were being made in the e-filing portal so that the data being uploaded are correct and compliant with the validation rules to a bigger extent.
The assessees are suggested to review these validation rules to ensure that the software used through them follows the rules with these needs, to prevent the rejection of return because of the poor data quality or the glitches in the return.
For being no inconvenience to the assessee, these software providers are recommended to comply with these guidelines. All the validation rules would be rigorously observed and enforced and every compliance is to be followed faultlessly.
For violations, the related income tax return preparation facility is responsible to be blacklisted without any notice and this blacklisting shall be posted on the e-filing website. No return is allowed to be furnished through the blacklisted software till the software provider is enabled to furnish the information of the modification in the software.
