How I Automated ITR Document Preparation With 40 Lines of Python
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My chartered accountant called me last week. Five days before March 31. His voice had that familiar panic — the same tone every CA in India carries between February and March. He needed my ITR documents. Form 16. AIS data. Twelve months of bank statements. The usual March-end package. I told him to check his email. My script had already sent everything. There was a long pause on the other end. Then: "What script?" I explained that I had written a 40-line Python script that automatically pull