1. taking your friends and your business background as mentioned by you , you can take the help of tax return preparers (TRPs), who are appointed by the I-T department to assist income tax assesses in preparing and filing returns correctly.
2. You can locate a TRP in your area from the website www.trpscheme.com. Just enter the required information—state, city and pincode, and a list of registered TRPs in your locality will be displayed along with their TRP ID, name, address and contact details.
They are paid for each return filed based on the amount of tax paid by the assesse. The maximum amount that can be charged by a TRP is Rs.250. For further details you can contact them - so it is easy and user friendly more
Also another question baffles me. Me and my friend are in the same business. I work for 4 hours and I am not that efficient and therefore my Income Tax is less. My friend is puts is in 12 hours of work with more diligence. That is services rendered by him is much superior than mine. I pay much less tax and he has to pay much more only because his services are far more than mine. I quote by some individual - If cigarette taxes are meant to discourage smoking, would not Income Tax discourage working or contribution to the society and national wealth. Suppose the Income Tax is sick and bed ridden and unable even to get up. How does s/he adheres to the time limit for filing of the return. Even late submission of return w/o involving any tax evasion would be visited by fine as per the latest ruling brought by our worthy FM (I am an ardent fan of Modiji). These and many more facts can be stated as to why Income Tax in the present shape, I submit should not be continued. In my view create a environment where everyone is tempted to open bank account, put a ceiling on cash withdrawal and retention of cash in hand. The bank accounts is in the region of 50 crores. Deposits now in the banks are enormous. So long the money is in the Bank as deposit it is being used for productive purposes for which the interest one gets is not sufficient even to cover inflation. In Mumbai no vegetable is available presently for less than 60-80 rupees per kilo. All I can say that withdrawals of money is enormous (I am not sure how much it is). My guess is that just a flat rate of TDS of 5-6% would generate a net revenue of more than 20-25 lakh crores (gross) at present. The actual TDS could be as low as 1% rising to 25-30% where the withdrawal (ie personal benefit). I may be wrong in my views. But fellow citizens please think it over. We would be free to contribute as much as we can and receive therefor income and as and when one withdraws money (ie for personal satisfaction/benefit) the individual is required to pay a nominal TDS starting from as low as 1%. I am no wizard but please think it over. Thanks and regards. more