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WHAT IS DIGITAL SIGNATURE & ITS USE (DSC) ?:
A Digital Signature Certificate authenticates your identity electronically. It also provides you with a high level of security for your online transactions by ensuring absolute privacy of the information exchanged using a digital certificate. You can use certificates to encrypt information such that only the intended recipient can read it. You can digitally sign information to assure the recipient that it has not been changed in transit, and also verify your identity as the sender of the message.
INCOME TAX
The income-tax portal has made it compulsory in e Filing of Income Tax Return through DSC for Partnership Firm, Company including Individual, HUF those who are liable to Tax Audit apart from that in normal cases return filed without DSC may have chance of mismatching or non filing of return due to Acknowledgement in ITR-V have to sent to ITD-CPC, Bengaluru by ordinary post may not properly received.
COMPANY MATTERS
MCA 21 portal has made it compulsory for registering DSC in all the cases including the following:
INCORPORATION OF COMPANY:
Obtaining DIN-1, DIN-2, DIN-3, DIN-4 / Availability or change of name of company / Situation or change of registered office of the company / Appointment or cessation of directors / Appointment of Managing Director / Registration of an existing company into a limited company / Information of Auditors to the Registrar of Companies / Application & Declaration for incorporation of company / Obtaining Certificate of Incorporation & all other jobs related to the Registrar of Companies.
AFTER INCORPORATION OR IN CASE OF RUNNING COMPANY:
Filing of Annual Return, Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet / Return of Allotment of Shares or buy back of shares / Creation of charges / Appointment or cessation of receiver of company / Conversion of Public Limited Company into a Private Limited Company / Consolidation, Division, Increase of Share Capital / Alteration of Memorandum of Association & Articles of Association / Information of Auditors to the Registrar of Companies & all other jobs related to the Registrar of Companies.
SALES TAX
Govt. of West Bengal has introduced DSC in e filing of VAT, CST & Sales Tax Return including New Registration under the Acts
PROFESSION TAX
Govt. of West Bengal will shortly introduc DSC in e filing of Profession Tax matters.
ESIC & PROVIDENT FUND
Govt. of India has introduced DSC in e filing of ESIC & Provident Fund.
CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX
Govt. of India has introduced DSC in e filing of Central Excise & Service Tax.
E TENDERING & E PROCUREMENT
Indian Railways, Coal India, Indian Oil, IFFCO, DGS&D, CPWD, Defence, NTPC and many more have introduced e-procurement, e-tendering & e-filing etc require verifying the authenticity of the person. A digital certificate can be presented electronically to prove your identity or your right to access information or services on the Internet. It is a set of codes that is unique only to the person who is holding it. It can not be tampered with. Digital Signature or Digital Certificate is equivalent of a hand written signature authenticated the documents has been digitally signed. Such certificate issued by us on behalf of Certifying Agency can be used to create legally valid Digital Signatures.
TYPES OF CERTIFICATE (DSC) AND ITS PERIOD OF VALIDITY:
There are 3 types of certificates, having different security levels, namely:- Class-1, Class-2, Class-3 and is normally valid for 1 or 2 years, after which it can be renewed.
CLASS – 1: Certificate are appropriate for Digital Signatures, encryption and electronic access control for non-commercial transaction where proof of identity is not required.
CLASS – 2: Individual certificates are appropriate for Digital Signatures, encryption and electronic access control in transactions where proof of identity based on information in the validating database is sufficient.
CLASS – 3: Certificates issued to organization are based on a confirmation that the subscriber organization does in fact exit and that the person submitting the certificate application on behalf of the subscriber was authorized to do so, these certificates are appropriate to access control in transaction requiring a high assurance about the subscriber’s identity.
DGFT: It is applicable in case of Import & Export only.
CAN THE DIGITAL CERTIFICATE SEEN? Yes, after the download is done, one can open the internet explorer, go to tools and open the Internet options. In the window, if one clicks the content, it will show the certificate there. Upon clicking the certificate one can see the details such as issued to, issued by, expiry date and name, provided at the time of application. If one clicks this, the details of the certificate would appear spelling out that ‘you have a private key that corresponds to this certificate’. Whenever, the digital signature is required to be affixed to the e-form, the same will be picked up from this site and will be affixed to the e-form but safe and proper method to keep DSC on e-token, a small USB port devise, which is password protected can be plugged to USB port when needed for digitally sign the documents otherwise to be kept in safe custody when it will be not in use.
WHERE IS THE USE OF DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE: In our daily life it is most useful to us. In filing of Income Tax Return, Sales Tax Return, VAT Return, CST Return & in all cases of ROC matters it is being widely used.
Apart from all above filing now the Digital Signature Certificate also being used for E tendering, E procurement, E auction etc. in various portals such as Indian Railways, Coal India, Indian Oil, IFFCO, DGS&D, CPWD, Defence, NTPC and many more.
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A Digital Signature Certificate authenticates your identity electronically. It also provides you with a high level of security for your online transactions by ensuring absolute privacy of the information exchanged using a digital certificate. You can use certificates to encrypt information such that only the intended recipient can read it. You can digitally sign information to assure the recipient that it has not been changed in transit, and also verify your identity as the sender of the message.
INCOME TAX
The income-tax portal has made it compulsory in e Filing of Income Tax Return through DSC for Partnership Firm, Company including Individual, HUF those who are liable to Tax Audit apart from that in normal cases return filed without DSC may have chance of mismatching or non filing of return due to Acknowledgement in ITR-V have to sent to ITD-CPC, Bengaluru by ordinary post may not properly received.
COMPANY MATTERS
MCA 21 portal has made it compulsory for registering DSC in all the cases including the following:
INCORPORATION OF COMPANY:
Obtaining DIN-1, DIN-2, DIN-3, DIN-4 / Availability or change of name of company / Situation or change of registered office of the company / Appointment or cessation of directors / Appointment of Managing Director / Registration of an existing company into a limited company / Information of Auditors to the Registrar of Companies / Application & Declaration for incorporation of company / Obtaining Certificate of Incorporation & all other jobs related to the Registrar of Companies.
AFTER INCORPORATION OR IN CASE OF RUNNING COMPANY:
Filing of Annual Return, Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet / Return of Allotment of Shares or buy back of shares / Creation of charges / Appointment or cessation of receiver of company / Conversion of Public Limited Company into a Private Limited Company / Consolidation, Division, Increase of Share Capital / Alteration of Memorandum of Association & Articles of Association / Information of Auditors to the Registrar of Companies & all other jobs related to the Registrar of Companies.
SALES TAX
Govt. of West Bengal has introduced DSC in e filing of VAT, CST & Sales Tax Return including New Registration under the Acts
PROFESSION TAX
Govt. of West Bengal will shortly introduc DSC in e filing of Profession Tax matters.
ESIC & PROVIDENT FUND
Govt. of India has introduced DSC in e filing of ESIC & Provident Fund.
CENTRAL EXCISE & SERVICE TAX
Govt. of India has introduced DSC in e filing of Central Excise & Service Tax.
E TENDERING & E PROCUREMENT
Indian Railways, Coal India, Indian Oil, IFFCO, DGS&D, CPWD, Defence, NTPC and many more have introduced e-procurement, e-tendering & e-filing etc require verifying the authenticity of the person. A digital certificate can be presented electronically to prove your identity or your right to access information or services on the Internet. It is a set of codes that is unique only to the person who is holding it. It can not be tampered with. Digital Signature or Digital Certificate is equivalent of a hand written signature authenticated the documents has been digitally signed. Such certificate issued by us on behalf of Certifying Agency can be used to create legally valid Digital Signatures.
TYPES OF CERTIFICATE (DSC) AND ITS PERIOD OF VALIDITY:
There are 3 types of certificates, having different security levels, namely:- Class-1, Class-2, Class-3 and is normally valid for 1 or 2 years, after which it can be renewed.
CLASS – 1: Certificate are appropriate for Digital Signatures, encryption and electronic access control for non-commercial transaction where proof of identity is not required.
CLASS – 2: Individual certificates are appropriate for Digital Signatures, encryption and electronic access control in transactions where proof of identity based on information in the validating database is sufficient.
CLASS – 3: Certificates issued to organization are based on a confirmation that the subscriber organization does in fact exit and that the person submitting the certificate application on behalf of the subscriber was authorized to do so, these certificates are appropriate to access control in transaction requiring a high assurance about the subscriber’s identity.
DGFT: It is applicable in case of Import & Export only.
CAN THE DIGITAL CERTIFICATE SEEN? Yes, after the download is done, one can open the internet explorer, go to tools and open the Internet options. In the window, if one clicks the content, it will show the certificate there. Upon clicking the certificate one can see the details such as issued to, issued by, expiry date and name, provided at the time of application. If one clicks this, the details of the certificate would appear spelling out that ‘you have a private key that corresponds to this certificate’. Whenever, the digital signature is required to be affixed to the e-form, the same will be picked up from this site and will be affixed to the e-form but safe and proper method to keep DSC on e-token, a small USB port devise, which is password protected can be plugged to USB port when needed for digitally sign the documents otherwise to be kept in safe custody when it will be not in use.
WHERE IS THE USE OF DIGITAL SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE: In our daily life it is most useful to us. In filing of Income Tax Return, Sales Tax Return, VAT Return, CST Return & in all cases of ROC matters it is being widely used.
Apart from all above filing now the Digital Signature Certificate also being used for E tendering, E procurement, E auction etc. in various portals such as Indian Railways, Coal India, Indian Oil, IFFCO, DGS&D, CPWD, Defence, NTPC and many more.
