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The Income Tax department has made return filing very simple and fast. All you need to is visit this site:

http://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/index.jsp

You need to just follow the listed steps and complete the process.

1. Select appropriate type of Return Form
2. Download Return Preparation Software for selected Return Form
3. Fill your return offline and generate a XML file.
4. Register and create a user id/password.
5. Login and click on relevant form on left panel and select “Submit Return”
6. Browse to select XML file and click on “Upload” button
7. On successful upload acknowledgement details would be displayed. Click on “Print” to generate printout of acknowledgement/ITR-V Form.
8. Incase the return is digitally signed (tax payer’s digital signature), on generation of “Acknowledgement” the Return Filing process gets completed. You may take a printout of the Acknowledgement for your record.
9. Incase the return is not digitally signed, on successful uploading of e-Return, the ITR-V Form would be generated which needs to be printed by the tax payers. This is an acknowledgement cum verification form. The tax payer has to fill-up the verification part and verify the same. A duly verified ITR-V form should be submitted with the local Income Tax Office within 15 days of filing electronically. This completes the Return filing process for non-digitally signed Returns.

To have your own digital signature setup, you may reach out to any of the suppliers in the market. 

10. For any assistance in filing the paper copy of the return please contact the Public Relations Officer of the Local Income Tax Office.

Which one has better zoom and clarity? Look for yourself. I have given the same address in both google maps and microsoft live maps.

Google Maps             Vs.    Microsoft live maps

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Microsoft live search Bird’s eye view look crystal clear and can zoom more than google maps.

Update on 7/26: See a british airways flight in this live maps link here. See the niagara much closer here.

If you are planning to get a new car in India, then this is the site you need to visit for a comprehensive information and comparison of cars with pictures. You can select cars by price range, manufacturer and body style. Not all cities are included for price , but we can get a feeling of the price.

The Flash interface is particularly impressive.

You can register your soft skills here . They even take biometric finger prints as part of data collection. The fees is 300 Rs and the benefits are that NASSCOM collects data to see where India lags as a nation in software industry. You have a permanent profile on an industry-wide database driven by NASSCOM. They also do a background check so that every company you join need not do this again. You need to be in India to do this.

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To much surprise, my VoIP service provider SunRocket declared bankruptcy and left its 200,000 customers including me without a phone service overnight. As expected, lot of other providers have started to offer their services to these customers.

There are 2 things I can do now.

1. File a federal complaint online

2. Call my credit card company and Dispute Charges.

The last I can do is search for a good stable VoIP provider in US.  Interestingly, in the first quarter of 2007, Vonage added 166,000 customers but have lost $73 million. Who else to trust??

One lesson I learnt is to be very careful when locking in for long term contracts as I did signup for a 1 year contract with SunRocket.

Its pure fun! You only need to upload your photo and the software automatically and exactly crops your face for animation.

Good or bad… the real concern starts after 3:35 minutes…

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This week’s movie marathon is all about harry potter and Transformers. Two entirely different films in the same day continuously. One is a magical film while another is a scientific fiction. Have seen both end of worlds in 5 hours of fun packed entertainment.

If you read the harry Potter book already, you will be in tears….. I somewhat like the books but why do they keep changing the story in the books to something completely different? It is an usual Harry potter movie….

The special effects in Transformers were breathtaking. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg together did wonderful job. From the end of the film, I think there would be a second part coming up since the villan robot Megatron was just dropped in ocean. Enjoy the film from a nearby theatre since viewing Transformers as a download will not give 100% entertainment.

How about booking tickets in bus across India across ALL travel companies from a single website? Bangalore based Redbus has opened this site as a one stop shop to book… KPN, Parveen, Sharma, Yohalakshmi, Madurai Radha travels, Rathi meena and mostly all travels are listed here. There is an option also to cancel online and to make home delivery of tickets… This should help us, especially with some travels who dont have their own booking online.

Folks, a record 14 states and the District of Columbia will offer sales tax breaks this summer to make back-to-school shopping less expensive. It seems Sales tax holidays are becoming so popular that they are the second biggest sales period in some states, surpassed only by Thanksgiving weekend. 

Most tax holidays start Friday and lasts through the weekend. Details vary by state. Click here for dates on your state and the items that are going to be sales tax free. Enjoy an alternate Thanksgiving day in summer.