Adding filters, Pagging using Entity framework in MVC 4.0

You have 2 options, client-side or server side.

Personally, I feel that if you're using generally flat data, your paging should be done on the client side. The ASP MVC framework has a built in design philosophy that I greatly agree with:

1. Queries yield lists.
2. Lists yield individual detail

With that model in mind, you can push hundreds to thousands of flat entries to a client and use client-side paging with minimal performance impact on either side. The list can contain just about any number of filterable conditions locally, visible or not, in JavaScript Objects that can be manipulated locally. Load is balanced off of the server and onto the client.

So long answer short: I'd use JavaScript or a JavaScript Framework for most, if not all, paging needs, and associate a context link with the data for drill-down.