Also, it has started 'Online Tax Help' to provide professional services to resolve tax-filing related queries by tax experts through email or phone within 24 hours.
To avail these facilities, a taxpayer will have to visit the website 'www.Trpscheme.Com'.
Under the 'Register for Home Visit' initiative, Tax Return Preparer (TRP) will visit the residence of the assessee to provide assistance in return filing.
Taxpayers who choose to register for home visit, will be asked to indicate in short the help required and a convenient date and time when the TRP can visit them for assistance.
"The help desk will forward the query of the taxpayer to the nearest available TRP and fix the appointment telephonically," an official statement said.
It said this is aimed at facilitating taxpayers in filing their return, thereby reducing their cost of compliance.
It further said the TRPs are allowed to collect fee from the taxpayers as per the TRP notification subject to a maximum of Rs 250 per return preparation.
The facility for home visit by TRPs has been presently made available in few cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Patna. The facility will be extended to more cities during the next phase. (MORE)
