The Helpful Tax-men

The end of July signals the advent of the tax filing season - an inescapable nuisance, according to me. This year, the Income Tax department introduced the concept of Tax Return Preparers to help ease this annual exercise a bit. Basically, these TRPs (that's what these people are called - no relation to Television channels!) are unemployed youth, who have been trained by the IT department to assist people in filing their returns for a nominal fee. It's an interesting idea and the TRPs can turn out to be a useful set of people, notwithstanding protests from Chartered Accountants, who are crying foul and claiming that filing returns is their sole right.

Click here to read about the TRPs.