Welcome to Freedom Matters. Sixty two years have passed since that momentous day in 1947 when the shackles of two centuries of British rule ended and India entered a new age of freedom in her history. Freedom is not a new concept. In this age, we consider it of prime importance to know and fight for our rights and freedoms. This site is all about Freedom - in software, society and life. read more
The IT Returns Migration Project
Every year, people all over our country file their Income Tax Returns. The Income Tax Department has provided an e-filing facility for people to file their returns online. To file your IT returns online, you need to download a spreadsheet, which works only on MS Excel. Because of this, many people who cannot use MS Excel are excluded from the option of e-filing of IT returns.
After discussing about it here in DeepRoot, while celebrating 62 years of Independence in our country, we decided to take up the challenge of making this facility available to users of OpenOffice, a platform independent, freely downloadable office suite. Thanks to Mr Abhas Abhinav, CEO of DeepRoot, I was given the task of migrating the spreadsheet. This has been a generous chance to use my time here at office to do this kind of work. Now, weeks later, the spreadsheet is available freely for download. read more
Use the spreadsheet
The spreadsheet has been tested with OpenOffice.org v2.4, v3.0 and v3.1. Check if it works with your version of OpenOffice. The import from previous version facility is not done. The spreadsheet should generate a XML file in your home directory, in the format required by the IT department. For any bug reports or feature requests, kindly mail to the following address: itr-forms-bugs@freedom-matters.in .
Currently ITR Form 1 has been migrated. This is for tax payers with income from salary, pension and family pension. We have plans of migrating the other forms as well.
