Tax!! Tax!!

ajayg | 04 November, 2004 01:14

29th october was a friday and i was reminded by my friend(s) that i had to file my tax. You know, its a year long ritual. Ever year on the same day one or other friend of mine would wake me up and say boss!! do it otherwise you would be paying fine for not filing.

I dont know who invented this. As every salaried individual know, even you had paid your taxes as a responsible citizen you still got to stand in a queue and does not make a diff if you are paying a 1 Re/- tax or 100,000 Rs/= tax.

So anyway called up a consultant, i thot will file it in hyd. This guy walks into my office says sir, you have to pay another 52000/= tax. I was shocked , man!! i dont even earn that much and paying this is huge.

I called up my auditor in chennai and told him.. Anna!! this guys are taking me for a ride. He cross verified and said no!! dont worry just file your papers no need to pay anything more and the sections 234 (a,b,c,d,e...z) would take care of the remaining.

Got relieved. but by then getting this confirmation, came the 30th evening. So i cant trace anymore consultant. Since sunday is the last day and i was expecting huge snake lines of people standing there to file.

Was scared and asked hte cab driver to drive me to the hotel sarovar, adarsh nagar, next to MLA buildings. This guy does not know where the income tax office is. I was feeling jealous.

Went to the building and saw all the counters virtually empty. I was shocked, pinched myself and asked the security is this the Income tax office? he say haan sir!! i was very happy. Went in and spoke to the person in the counter. He said sir, aapka papers tie nahi kiya. woh karko aao..

Went to a lady sitting there , she tried to confuse me, how can someone confuse a confused soul . So did not matter a damn to me and neither to her.

tied the papers and went to the counter and gave the papers.

the guy in the pc said, PAN number is wrong.

Arre yaar, i had been using this PAN since i was 21 and it cannot be wrong. I told him boss!! type it correctly you would have typed it wrongly.

again saw and said sorry sir your pan number does not exist.

the next guy asked are you filing it for the first time in hyd

yes!! i filed last 5 years in chennai. This is the first time in hyd. And proved him by showing my pan card that my pan number is correct. So, they took it on the face value and they accepted my returns.

Wow!! i never knew filing was such a simple process, i think i will do my filing from next year by myself before the due date !! what the heck if there is no crowd on the due date i wud do it on the last day. Who cares a damn?