Limitations
These are the limits of this prototype. They are part of the design, not a hidden failure.
It does not file the return
EaseITR does not log into the Income Tax portal and does not e-file. A result is a worksheet. Complex cases, non-resident cases, and foreign-income cases stay on the chartered-accountant path and do not show a confident payable figure.
The document reader is general-purpose
Google Document AI Form Parser and Invoice Parser, both in Mumbai, read the file first. They are not a model trained on Indian tax forms. When that read finds no fields, Gemini 2.5 Flash reads the same file and may only copy the known fields. “Choose for me” classifies Form 16, Form 26AS, AIS, a broker capital-gains statement, a home-loan certificate, or a bill. Any other type has to be chosen by hand, and an unclear file is refused rather than guessed.
A person accepts every figure
Low-confidence fields stay unverified. Nothing is imported until you accept it. The tax estimate is then calculated in the browser. Gemini only explains a field when you click “What this means”, and it is not allowed to compute tax or pick the ITR form.
The tax rules are a subset
Indexation, a full tax-audit test, and employer NPS are outside this worksheet. Surcharge marginal relief is an approximation of the income above the threshold, not a full recomputation. Help articles are plain-language notes and still need review by a qualified tax professional.
The file is seen briefly by Google
The uploaded file is deleted after it is read, and a one-day rule removes anything left behind. Document AI still processes the file in order to read it. The full recognised text is not stored. A PAN is masked before it is shown or saved.