New Patch 3.0 for Saral TaxOffice 2008 has been released on 07th May 2008. The new release comes with several improvements in the features and Income Tax Forms [ITR] for 2008-09 Assessment Year.

It also includes eFiling of ITR through XML for ITR Forms 4, 5, 6 and 8. Release notes are as below:

Release Note for Saral Tax Office

Saral Office                         

1. "To-Do list" feature has been renamed as Tasks
2. Changes has been done in Web Updates
3. Filter option is renamed as Search and for the same short cut is provided in tool bar.
4. Shortcuts for the modules has been provided.
5. For sending the mails from "Saral Office" new feature is provided to launch outlook for the customer e-mail ID.
6. Feature is provided for opening of clients on double click in the grid view
7. Add new link button is changed to add new link button-with tab caption in "Client details" screen
8. Bug fixing in billing and receipts reports has been done.

Income Tax                    

1. In Option settings - Differentiate between Assessee-wise settings and file-wise settings feature is provided.
2. PAN Duplication checking feature is provided.
3. Option is Provided for saving assessee details without Email ID
4. "First Name", "Last Name", "Middle Name" text boxes for "Other than individual" and "HUF" has been disabled.
5. Blank Forms related to IT is added in Reference.
6. IT-ITR porting with MSSQL has been done.
7. Option is provided for only default year details display in IT-ITR porting.
8. Bug fixing in STI reports has been done
9. ITR forms 5,6,7,8 Reports has been provided.
10. Feature is provided for porting of ITR related data from TDS(conversion utility)
11. Xml generation has been given up to ITR-4 [Note that for 5/6/8 also it generates, but there are some errors during validation in some cases.]
12. Individual Challan Generation for Self assessment tax & Advance tax has been provided
13. Sample file has been included in the Samples folder

Balance sheet

• Porting of previous financial year balance sheet details to current financial year has been done.
• For firm selection for sub status is provided in Assessee information screen
• Option is given for the user to change the caption of column headers of Profit & Loss & Banace Sheet in option setting screen.
• Major Bugs which are fixed are -> not allowing the user to create ledger under main groups like Income, expenditure, Assests & Liabilities has been fixed.
• "None" has been removed from Group Master's P&L Group column's drop down combo list
• "Head of account" -> Inter company is removed from Group master & Ledger master screen
• Nagative amounts in Balance sheet & Profit & loss's  horizontal & vertical view screen has been handled.
• Display of all ledgers related to Balance sheet & Profit & loss 's horizonatle & vertical view screen has been done.
• Some other major bugs been fixed