Introduction: On e-filing of income tax return, an
acknowledgement is generated by the Income Tax Department in a form named as
“ITR V”. This ITR V is issued in pdf format and remains password protected. The
password remains Permanent Account Number of the assesse in short case followed
by his date of birth / its date of formation. This password remains known to
the assesse and / or his Counsel and / or other concerned persons.
Problem / Issue: The security of ITR V through password is a
good measure to prevent the details of the assesse from going in to wrong hands
but the problem / issue is that the opening of pdf file through password is not
a onetime affair. Every time when the file is to be opened for viewing / taking
print out etc., password is to be given. In the offices of the CAs, Advocates,
Other Counsels etc., these files are required to be opened frequently and that
too in respect of large no. of assesses. Therefore, doing the job of supplying
the password every time is felt an unnecessary step.
Further, the password
consisting of PAN followed by date of birth / formation is also generally felt
as too long. Another aspect of the problem is that every time the password do
not remain instantly available with the Counsel, their staff etc. It is to be
gathered from the records. The password of each and every assesse client can
also not be remembered by the Counsels etc. Many times when ITR V is send to
the client for their own records, they could not open the password protected
file due to insufficient computer literacy.
Solution / Simple Way
to Make ITR V Password Free: Many persons includes the password in the name of the pdf file
e.g., “Ramesh ITR V AY 16-17 Password aetpj6979k10101978” so that it remains
instantly available. Some person’s first takes print out of ITR V and then scan
the same in to pdf format. But these ways are not much feasible.
There is one simple
way to make password protected ITR V pdf file as password free pdf file. The
following steps are required to be done to obtain password free ITR V pdf file:
(1) Firstly, open
Google Chrome browser in to you computer system and them minimize the same.
(2) Secondly, drag and
drop the password protected pdf file of ITR V in to Google Chrome.
(3) On dropping the
file as above, the Google Chrome will automatically open a new tab for the pdf
file and will ask for password of pdf file.
(4) now, enter the
password and press submit button. On doing so, the pdf file of ITR V will be
opened.
(5) Now, on upper
right corner of the same screen (where pdf document is opened), an icon of
“printer” will appear. Click the same.
(6) On clicking the
printer icon, a print window will get opened. In the print window, an option of
“destination” will be seen. Along with that option, a button named “change”
will also be seen. Now, press the “Change” button.
(7) On pressing the
“Change” button, various options will be seen out of which there will also be
an option “save as pdf”. Now, select this option. On doing so, the original
print window will appear again.
(8) In the original
“print window” there will be a “save” button. Now, press the “Save” button.
(9) On pressing the
“Save” button, a new window “Save As” will get opened automatically which will
ask to give the location for saving the new file i.e., password free ITR V pdf
file. Now, give the desired location and close / minimize the Google Chrome.
(10) After that go to
the location where the new pdf file has been saved. On clicking the same it
will get opened without any password.
Conclusion : The purpose of making the ITR V file as
password free file is only a convenience to the authorized persons. There are
some other ways to make the pdf file as password free file e.g., using of
readymade softwares etc. However, they may not be available easily or without
any cost. Therefore, the above way to make the ITR V as password free through
Google Chrome may be easy, convenient and inexpensive.
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