New Delhi, July 13 -- With advances in technology, improvements to the income tax website, and a year-over-year increase in the ease of tax submission, income tax filing continues to evolve, shifting towards paperless digital processing. Many taxpayers now doubt whether they are still required to maintain proper papers, i.e., physical copies of tax-related documents.

Starting from salary records, pension papers, and bank statements to investment proofs, along with the capital gains report and other similar important documents, are now generally generated digitally, with nearly no paper involved. This calls for guidance and clarification from tax experts on why documents must be kept in physical form at all, or only in digital form.

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