PAY SQUARE ( Pay Roll people). Review on General Tips on Tax Planning and Investment

I would like to bring to the notice of People the advantages(?) of

utilising the services of Agencies who make tall claims of taking care

of People's problems, as these poor creatures(mostly IT sector)either

dont have time or not knowledgeable about the Government

procedures.Take for example a simple thing of changing the Sur Name

(Post marriage) on The PAN Card. Income Tax people say that it takes

just 15 Days to issue the name change( Provided all

documents-marriage certificate, Residence proof etc) are submitted

along with the original PAN card .

This is exactly done by my

daughter-in-law on one of those unfortunate days 24.11.2005 .(please

note its 2005 and not 2006!) to Pay Square( the so called Pay Roll

People). We gave the the Gestation period and enquired on 14 th Feb

.about the status. They told there is Father's mismatch(Thank God only

in Name!)and that we should go to UTI office in Pune and that we

would get the PAN in 7 Days! Anyway Paysquare was kind enough to

collect all relevant documents and resubmit to UTI. Now this process of

resubmitting the documentary proof of ancestral history has been done

two more times. At the end of it all, Pay Square( PayRoll people!)

say that its just their job is only to courier the things to UTI and

that we have to follow it up. If we have the time in the first place,

we would noy have gone to these chaps for Service. If they cannot

facilitate the whole process why should they take up these jobs?

Another thing is that they have different characters to do these jobs

! Nobody is sure what the other does!

Finally I have taken

up the case and after about 5 visits to local UTI office, innumerable

phone calls to Mumbai( local UTI says they are helpless!) and a

visit to Income Tax Office near Sadhu Vaswani Statue and a final

confirmation from UTI Mumbai that the revised Card has been

couriered.Again the PAN card has gone into a spin and it was in Space

for three more days as UTI has given to the wrong couriers! The story

has a happy ending. We got the revised PAN card on 7 - 10-2006.

Who is going to pay my expenses incurred for my visits to UTI & Income Tax office and various phone bills?

I

am writing all this so that no one will be lured by tall claims made by

these Agencies. UTI office is open on Saturdays also and anybody can

walk in and do the job personally and avoid all this anxiety and mental

torture.

Thank God we got the card before the First Anniversary( No credit for PAY SQUARE(THE PAY ROLL PEOPLE!)