File an Indian ITR-2 with capital gains via browser agent
The author had Claude Cowork drive the tax portal in a real browser to fill every schedule, catching two mistakes in the pre-fill while keeping login and payment under their control.
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- What they did
- Gaurav Trivedi gave Claude Cowork a folder with Form 16, Form 12BA and the AIS/TIS downloads, plus the Claude in Chrome extension. The agent built a tax worksheet and classified each capital gain. After he logged in and cleared the OTP, it filled the ITR-2 schedules on incometax.gov.in. He paid the tax and e-verified himself.
- How it went
- Final figures reconciled to the rupee, and the return was filed and verified the same day with zero balance. The agent caught the portal's wrong filing reason, unticked schedules and a zeroed 80CCD(2) deduction. Table F's unlabeled grid needed manual checking.
- Worth knowing
- Reconcile Part B-TI total income and Part B-TTI tax before paying. The AIS can miss crypto, foreign assets, ESPP and some brokers, and the return isn't filed until you e-verify.
Try it yourself with Claude Cowork
Open the [tax portal name] in my browser and help me file my [form, e.g. ITR-2] for [year], including capital gains. Fill each schedule using the documents in [folder], compare against the pre-filled data, and list every mismatch you find. I will do the login and any payment myself, and you should pause and show me the complete return for review before final submission.
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