Over 9 crore Indians filed ITRs in FY 2024-25. Every one of them needs to preserve income proofs for years. Almost none of them do it properly.
Form 16 in email. Rent receipts on WhatsApp. Investment proofs in a folder you renamed twice. Salary slips on an old phone you traded in. No single place holds everything.
You replace your laptop every 3-5 years. That hard drive from 2020? Gone. 42% of all data loss comes from hardware failure. Your income proofs don't survive device transitions.
A folder called "Tax Stuff 2022" with 47 unsorted files doesn't help when the IT department asks for a specific investment proof from 3 years ago. You need it searchable, not just stored.
Without documents, legitimate deductions get disallowed. Honest claims become "discrepancies". Penalty of Rs 10,000 per instance of failure to produce documents — plus the disallowed tax itself, plus interest.
An IT notice arrives and you can't find the proof. The sleepless nights, the anxiety, the frantic searching — the emotional toll of not having your documents in order is real and significant.
Foreign income proofs scattered across countries and former employers. Schedule FA demands 16 years of records under the Black Money Act. Returning to India? Every foreign bank statement, ESOP exercise, and DTAA claim must be accounted for — and most people can't find last year's, let alone 2015's.
KarSafe exists because filing taxes is only half the job. The other half is preserving the proof — encrypted, organized by year, searchable, and accessible for as long as the law demands.
KarSafe is designed for the way real people handle tax documents. Upload from anywhere. Find anything instantly. Export with a professional annexure.
Scan with camera, pick from files, or share directly from email or WhatsApp. Auto-tagged by year and document type.
Search across all years by document type, income source, or keyword. No more digging through folders and email attachments.
Download all documents as an encrypted ZIP with a table-of-contents PDF — ready to hand to your CA or respond to an IT notice.
KarSafe isn't just cloud storage. It's a purpose-built vault designed for Indian income and tax document compliance.
Documents are encrypted on your device with AES-256 before upload. We never see your cleartext files. Not even we can read them.
Every document tagged by Assessment Year or Tax Year. Automatically sorted. Find Form 16 from 3 years ago in seconds, not hours.
Each document is encrypted with its own unique key. Even if one key were compromised, no other document is affected.
Download all your documents as encrypted or decrypted ZIP archives. Your data is always accessible to you — no lock-in.
Find any income proof across all years instantly. Filter by document type, income source, or year. No more digging through folders.
Full compliance with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Explicit consent, right to erasure, data portability, and grievance redressal.
Most taxpayers don't realise how long they must preserve income documents. A demand from the IT department can come years after filing.
Under the Income Tax Act, all records supporting your ITR must be preserved for 7 years from the end of the relevant assessment year. This includes Form 16, salary slips, rent receipts, and investment proofs.
The Black Money Act requires retention of records for 16 years. NRIs and returning Indians must preserve Schedule FA filings, ESOP/RSU exercise statements, foreign bank records, and DTAA relief proofs — across jurisdictions and former employers.
For businesses with international transactions, transfer pricing documentation must be maintained for at least 10 years. Cross-border invoices, agreements, and benchmarking studies.
For capital gains on property, you need the original purchase deed, payment proofs, and improvement costs — often from decades ago. There's no practical expiry on these records.
KarSafe is built by Tanris Technologies, a Bengaluru-based firm specializing in identity, authentication, and secure systems for over two decades.
Founded on the principle of "Think & Rise", Tanris Technologies works at the intersection of identity, cryptography, and secure systems. Our expertise spans biometric authentication, eKYC, mobile security, and secure development consulting — disciplines that directly inform how KarSafe protects your documents.
KarSafe's zero-knowledge encryption isn't an afterthought bolted onto a storage app. It was designed from first principles by engineers who have spent 25+ years building security infrastructure for enterprises.
Free to use. Zero-knowledge encryption. Your documents never leave your device unencrypted.
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