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Zomato has started facilitating income tax return (ITR) filings by its delivery partners to enable the latter to get refunds on their TDS deduction

Cofounder and CEO Deepinder Goyal made this announcement on X today. "With this initiative, most of our delivery partners will be filing taxes for the first time in their lives, which should make their lives easier in the long run - for example - they will be able to get access to structured credit, they will qualify for scholarships for their kids at various educational institutions, etc."

He further added that within 48 hours of going live on the Zomato Delivery Partner app, more than 1 Lakh partners have initiated their ITR filing.

Goyal said that the company paid a total of more than INR 4,000 Cr to its delivery partners last year, accounting for 40 Cr as the TDS amount (as 1% is deducted as TDS).

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