Bengaluru – 31st October 2019: Cleartax, India’s #1 Tax & Investing platform was today conferred prestigious runner up ‘Tech Leader of the Year 2019 (Corporate)’ Award at ASSOCHAM Emerging Digital Technologies Summit & Awards 2019 held on October 31, 2019, at Hotel Le-Meridien in New Delhi.

ClearTax won the Award in recognition of its contribution in ensuring positive technology impact on national productivity and adding new services for industry & citizens. And also, in supporting and ensuring technology adoption and digitalization through building both solutions and distribution ecosystem.

ASSOCHAM Emerging Digital Technologies Summit & Awards are aimed at recognizing and honoring the leaders, their Organizations and teams for the breakthrough innovations and excellence in generating the best solution with the use of emerging digital technologies such as AI, IoT, Blockchain, and Robotics.

Shri Som Parkash, Hon’ble Minister of State, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India and Shri R. Chandrashekhar, IAS, Former Secretary, Government of India were the chief guest at the inaugural function.

Since its inception in 2011, ClearTax has constantly leveraging technology to provide the go-to solution for every Indian for Income Tax filing, GST and Mutual Fund Investments. Today ClearTax is used by over 5 Million Indian Taxpayers to e-File their Tax Returns making it India’s largest player in the space. The ClearTax GST Software, India’s first ready-to-use GST-compliant billing and filing solution, is currently used by 6 lakh businesses, 60000 CAs and tax professionals, and over 1000 large enterprises. ClearTax’s products are trusted because of the accuracy and security that they ensure. ClearTax not only offer services but also educate its customers, the company employ tools such AI aided investment planner which will help guide them to a fiscally secure future. 

Archit Gupta, Founder and CEO, ClearTax, said, “We are so pleased to have our hard work recognized by ASSOCHAM. When we started in 2011, we knew the importance of building a robust technology platform to lay the foundation for a successful company. Every day, we build upon that foundation as we solve the pain points of every Indian’s financial lives. This award is recognition of attention to detail and hard work that each one of us puts in at ClearTax.”

The whole purpose of this ASSOCHAM Award is to bring to light some of the best practices and initiatives that others can use to follow, learn and adapt.