Finally, ST-3 Form appears offline
ASSESSEES should be thankful to the Board for a lot many things, but for the moment, with regard to the announcement that "Offline Excel utility for filing half-yearly ST-3 for the period October 2012 to March 2013 available in ACES now". We had requested the Board through this column on a couple of occasions [ & ] and yesterday [] hoped that the elusive form ST-3 makes its appearance before the sun sets on the horizon.
As mentioned, needful has been done as far as the offline version is concerned and the online version would be made available shortly. The Board says that the form ST-3 has new user-friendly features. In the days to come, we will come to know!.
By the way, the ACES website also exhorts assessees with the following message - "To avoid congestion and inconvenience in the last minute, all assessees are hereby advised to start e-filing the returns immediately and not to wait till the last date."
Everyone knows that extension of the date for filing returns is a regular feature and not an exception. Earlier the Board took its time for devising the form and now the assessees would plead for more time for filling the form.