You can digitally sign your IT RETURN - but what is a digital signature?
A digital certificate authenticates electronic documents in a similar manner a handwritten signature authenticates printed documents. This signature cannot be forged and it asserts that a named person wrote or otherwise agreed to the document to which the signature is attached. The recipient of a digitally signed message can verify that the message originated from the person whose signature is attached to the document and that the message has not been altered either intentionally or accidentally since it was signed. Also, the signer of a document cannot later disown it by claiming that the signature was forged. In other words, digital signatures enable the "authentication" and “non-repudiation” of digital messages, assuring the recipient of a digital message of both the identity of the sender and the integrity of the message.
A digital certificate is issued by a Certification Authority (CA) and is signed with the CA's private key. A digital certificate typically contains the: Owner's public key, the Owner's name, Expiration date of the public key, the Name of the issuer (the CA that issued the Digital ID), Serial number of the digital certificate, and the digital signature of the issuer. After availing the digital certificate from a CA, the user can use it to electronically sign any document and the same is true for E-filing returns too.
But there is no digital signature in the ACES programme of CBEC.
To err is human but to really mess up things, you need a computer and both the Revenue Boards are messing up things beyond repair and we are planning to implement GST which has to depend wholly on computers! God will save the country from all its ignorant intellectuals !!!.