I took care of returns yesterday. Filing in paper is actually cheaper [and free if someone can stand in queue].
Had to pay 200 Rs to CA, ONLY thing I needed was a copy of Form 16, CA's Guy came to office, filled the whole form (copied things from form 16). All I had to do was to sign and hand over 200 Rs.
Got acknowledgement in Office itself...
For filing online, I will have to pay 250 for Digital Cert. So, paper returns are more convenient and cheaper too.
They'd simply have to provide the figures to something like "community CA's" who will then upload the returns.
And will they do it for free?
Govt can't make this fee mandatory.