An Empirical Study of Awareness of e-Filing

E-filing is a systematic way to up load Income Tax Returns (ITRs) through Internet. There are two benefits of filing taxes, electronically over mailing in your return so that you will receive a tax refund sooner and your tax data goes directly to IRS computers with a greatly reduced chance of human keying or document scanning errors. E-filed returns cost 20 times lesser to than process which compared to a paper return that saves tax payers a lot of money. This paper deals with the importance and awareness of e-filing services, tax laws, procedure for assessment, and payment Descriptive research method has been used for this present study. Samples were collected from individual tax payer and business men through questionnaire method. Convenience sampling method was used by the researcher to collect the data. There is no significant difference between awareness level of e-filers and age group of the respondents.