About SimpleDoc
SimpleDoc explains Indian government services in plain English. It is independent, free, and asks for nothing about you.
Why this exists
Official portals are written to be legally precise, which is not the same as being understandable. They state the rule but rarely the situation you are actually in: which form applies to your case, what it costs, how long it takes, and what to do when the website rejects you for no stated reason. That gap is where agents charge money for something you could do yourself in twenty minutes.
Who writes this
SimpleDoc is written and checked by one person, working alone, who prefers not to publish their name. That is a deliberate choice and you should weigh it: there is no chartered accountant's signature here, and no institution standing behind the pages.
What there is instead is a verification process you can inspect, and a rule that nothing ships unless a figure can be traced to an official source. That is set out below, and it is the thing worth judging this site on. Where a decision turns on your own circumstances, a qualified professional is the right person to ask, and several pages here say so directly.
How figures are verified
Every number a calculator uses lives in one file with the official page it came from and the date it was last checked. A job re-checks those sources daily and reports when something moves, but it never edits the figures itself. A person confirms the official page before any rate changes. That separation is deliberate.
Where we have not verified something, there is no calculator entry for it. Road tax is the clearest example: 28 states and 8 union territories, each with its own basis of assessment. It appears in the RTO fee calculator now, but only for the handful of states actually checked against an official source, one at a time. A calculator that guesses confidently at the rest would be worse than leaving them out, because you would have no way to know it was wrong.
The full process, the current verification date of every rate on the site, and the test that stops an unverified figure from shipping are set out in how figures are verified.
What we never do
- Ask for your UAN, Aadhaar, PAN, password or OTP. There is no login and no account.
- Send your figures anywhere. Every calculator runs inside your browser.
- Claim to be official. SimpleDoc is not connected to any government body.
- Offer to file, submit or process anything on your behalf.
How it is funded
Advertising, and only after you agree to it. Decline the cookie banner and everything on the site still works. We do not take payment for coverage, and no page here is sponsored.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, that is the most useful thing you can tell us, and the fastest way to get it changed is to send the official page that contradicts it. Corrections go to hello@simpledoc.in and the date on the page moves when the figure does.