Online tax payment is a faster, easier and perhaps, the safest of all other options you may have been considering. In a matter of minutes, you’ll be done with your tax remission unlike when you have to take time off to go to the tax payer’s shop. And with online tax payment, confirmation from the taxman that your transaction was successful and they have your remissions comes right there – on your screen!

Online tax payment is possible for almost any tax you can think of regardless of whether you’re in India, Canada or the USA. Is it Retail Sales Tax? Employer Health Tax? Or is it Chhattisgarh Commercial and Professional Tax? You can pay them online. And you will also be able to file returns, for example, for such taxes as Retail Sales, both with tax and without tax payments. Most governments and local authorities will charge a negligible processing fee, if not nothing at all. They also make it easier for you by allowing you pay taxes and file returns from your bank’s website so you don’t have to doubt that you’re actually paying the tax to the right people.

Online tax payment is convenient for you since you don’t have to write any checks or file challans in quadruplicates. You also do not have to visit a collecting bank. In some places, deadlines can be extended for those who settle their taxes online and the tax authorities will ensure you have an acknowledgement slip once money is debited from your bank account. In the USA, a tax payer can take advantage of free online tax payment system provided by Intuit Consumer Tax Group to prepare tax remissions and files if their gross income is $28,500 or below. The equivalent of this system in Canada is QuickTax Web.

So how does the online tax payment work? Like other electronic payment options, all you are required to do is enter the required information in some form provided in your internet browser and navigate around with the help of a mouse. The mouse will help you select the options you want, say Corporations Tax from a group of other taxes. Once done with all the steps, the automated online system will give you some confirmation information which you must save in some format or the other (like online saving or keeping a print out record). Some online tax payment systems will also auto-email the details of the transaction to your email address. Easy? Try it out!