04 December 2014
The Information Technology Act, 2000 provides for use of Digital Signatures on the documents submitted in electronic form in order to ensure the security and authenticity of the documents filed electronically. This is the only secure and authentic way that a document can be submitted electronically. As such,filings done by the companies with income tax department/ROC/ AND OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITY are required to be filed with the use of Digital Signatures by the person authorised to sign the documents.