Is online payment of professional tax is compulsory

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19 August 2013 Is e-payment of professional tax is compulsory. If yes then what is the procedure. Please reply me. thanks in advance

RAMESH KUMAR VERMA

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24 August 2013 NO.. NO...

Professional Tax Payment can be done both in online and offline mode as explained below:
Online payment of professional tax:

For online professional tax payment go to - https://epayment.mahavat...tptec/e-paymentptec.jsp

Offline payment of professional tax:
Download chalan for MTR - 6 for offline payment of Professional Tax. Download from ---> http://www.mahavat.gov.in/Mahavat/index.jsp ---> Forms ---> Existing Act's List ---> Professional Tax Act ---> Chalan MTR -6 for PT payment.

Fill up the form and submit it to your nearest Nationalised bank.

Professional Tax Return filing:

Professional Tax Return should be filed by using form III-(B).
To download form III (B) go to http://www.mahavat.gov.in/Mahavat/index.jsp ---> Forms ---> Electronic Forms ---> Form III (B)

Dealers shall taken precaution to use MS Excel in MS Office for preparation and validation of tax return.
Macro security level setting:- Dealer should keep macro security level medium or low in tools menu on Manu Bar. This will activate the Visual Basic Validation utility in template of tax return form.

After setting the macro security level, the templates should be closed after saving. Thereafter again the same template should be reopened for the purpose of entering the information.

The professional tax return templates have inbuilt validation utility in MS Excel as well as Visual Basic. There are two sheets in the return template. First sheet provides for entering of data whereas on second sheet error are displayed along with detailed error messages.

After entering the data , dealers must validate the data by pressing validate button which at the bottom of the first sheet. After validation errors are displayed on Error Sheet.

Dealer must ensure that the data entered is error free and not a single error message is displayed on error sheet and information entered in such template should be saved. E_ Return filing utility will accept only validated and error free tax returns .

When the E return Template is error free , the validation utility ( after pressing the Press to Validate Button) , the separate rem.xls file is automatically generated and saved in My Documents by default.
Dealer should ensure that this automatically generated rem.xls file should be uploaded . Other file will not be accepted by E Return uploading utility.