From assessment year 2013-14, E-filing has been made compulsory for the person who is an individual or a Hindu undivided family (HUF), if his or its total income, or the total income in respect of which he is or it is assessable under the act during the previous year, exceeds Rs. 5 lakh rupees for the assessment year 2013-14 onwards. It clearly states total income and not taxable income.
Please read below to know how you can file income tax return online yourself.
You can calculate your income tax payable using the income tax calculator provided at this page: Income tax calculator. Income tax return excel utility also computes income tax, but they only take taxable income as input.
Also make sure that you also see whether the advance tax has been paid on time (See row 101-104 in tax calculator). In case you have paid the full tax but not paid on time as per the advance tax schedule, you are liable to pay interest under section 234 C. Income tax return excel utility also computes interest penalty u/s 234C.
Whatever pending amount you need to pay can be paid online on this link: Pay Taxes Online (Use only Internet explorer for this).
Select challan type as CHALLAN NO. /ITNS 280 and continue.
Select (0021) INCOME-TAX (OTHER THAN COMPANIES) in tax applicable field and
Select (300) SELF ASSESSMENT TAX in type of payment.
Select bank through which you want to pay.
Make sure to add interest penalty as computed by income tax return excel form u/s 234A, 234B and 234C in case of tax payments after due date.
You also pay through your net banking login on Axis Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, State Bank of Patiala, Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, State Bank of Mysore, Bank of Maharashtra, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Saurashtra, Union Bank of India, Allahabad Bank, Dena Bank, Syndicate Bank, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Canara Bank, Indian Bank, Bank of India, Corporation Bank, State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State Bank of Indore, Vijaya Bank and HDFC Bank.
You can check online if your money has actually reached the I-T Department. For this you have to go to Tax Information Network Website and click the box CIN Based View. Provide details as per the receipt generated while online tax payment.
Fill Income tax return form
Download respective income tax form from income tax website. Income tax department has modified the return preparation software to include automatic calculation of tax and interest.
Income from Salary/Pension, interest and single house property ( but with exempt income is less than Rs. 5,000) : ITR-1
Income from more than one house property, capital gains, salaries, pension, interest and exempt income more than Rs 5,000: ITR-2
Income from partnership in a firm: ITR-3
Income from business/profession: ITR-4
Income from Presumptive Business: ITR-4S
Exempt income here includes transport/conveyance allowance, HRA exemption, agricultural income, insurance maturity amount, LTA, Gratuity, Interest on PPF balance, Leave Encashment, Income from Mutual Funds, Dividends and long term capital gains.
Fill up the form with information provided in Form-16 and the tax calculated in income tax calculator above in Step 1.
If you don’t know Assessing Officer (Ward / Circle), Find it here by submitting your PAN.
After filling up the form, Generate tax return XML from the income tax form by clicking Generate button on first sheet of excels form.
After you have created a XML file from income tax return excel form, Go to Income Tax e-Filing Website.
Create your login on this page on website. It’s not mandatory, to use a digital signature for electronically filing the return.
a) Filing return without digital signature:
Login to income tax site and click on assessment year under submit return menu on left side of page.
Upload the generated XML on this page for 2012-13 assessment year.
On successful upload acknowledgment details would be displayed.
Take printout of acknowledgment/ITR-V Form. You may also download it later. Login and go to link on top right My account > My Returns.
Form ITR-V has to be submitted with the Income tax Department as verification of the electronic filing of the return within 120 days after the date of e-Filing.
Form ITR-V is bar-coded, so it need not to be folded and to be mailed in a A4 size envelope BY ORDINARY or SPEED POST ONLY to “Income Tax Department – CPC, Post Box No – 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bengaluru – 560100, Karnataka” within 120 days after the date of e-filing of return. ITR-V sent by Registered Post or Courier will not be accepted. No Form ITR-V shall be received in any other office of the Income-tax Department or in any other manner. Please keep a copy of the same with you also. After some day of posting the ITR-V, you can check status of receipt by going into account ‘My Account’ -> ‘E-filing Process Status’.
From year 2012-13, even if a person does not have digital signature, he can file online and even does not need to send ITR-V copy to Bangalore CPC (Central processing centre) address.
An electronic signature would be generated online in income tax efiling website after providing certain information from previous year’s income tax return. On validation of such information, unique PIN would be provided to person on email/SMS. This PIN can be used to file income tax return online without needing digital signature. This will also make sure no further hard copy needs to be sent to department.
b) Filing return with digital signature:
In case you don’t have digital signature and you want to buy that, you can buy class 2 or class 3. You can buy digital signature on e-Mudhra website . Class 2 individual certificate is available for Rs. 285 for 1 year validity.
In case return is filed with digital signature, user may take a printout of the Acknowledgment for his record. The tax-payer is not required to submit the Form ITR-V with the Income-tax Department.
To assist taxpayers, a limited call center service has been established at ITD-CPC, Bangalore. Taxpayer queries on status of ITR-V receipt at CPC, Bangalore will be answered on 080-43456700 between 9:30 AM to 6 PM. The service will be available in English, Hindi and Kannada.
One may also call on 1800-425-2229 (Toll free) or 080-43456700 for status of receipt of ITR-V at CPC, Processing status of e-filed returns, Refund issues and any other information related to processing of returns at CPC. The working hours of CPC Call center have been extended to 9AM-8PM on all working days.
I hope this article will help many of us and make tax filing Simple & Easy. So please this year Do-It-Yourself.
Feel free to comment/suggest anything that I may have missed.
Note : No hard copy of any kind of proof needs to be submitted along with Income tax return.
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Hi Pankaj,
My current juridisction is not a place where I have my PAN Card address registered. How can we get our juridisction change? Does it depend on the last physically filed ITR?
@Ankur
While filing returns, you can mention new ward/circle where you want your ITR to be processed.
Dear Sir,
I worked in three companies last year.
Company A-Worked 1.04.12-31.05.12- Income Rs.240000.00- TDS Rs.5000-Form16 Issued.
Company B-Worked 1.06.12-13.08.12-Income Rs. 70000.00- TDS Nil- Form16 Not Issued.
Company C-Worked 27.08.12-31.03.13-Income Rs.210000.00-TDS Nil- Form 16 Issued.
Advance tax paid by me on 26.3.13 Rs.10000.00
My Taxable income is 220000.00
So, as you can see i am still to pay Rs.7000.00 as taxes before filling my return.[if i dont consider rebate under Sec.89. Details follows]
My question is
1)can i just pay this remaining amount online and file return before 5th August'13 or i would have to pay penalty?
2)In my payment from company (A) Rs.180000.00 is arrear but its not shown on my form-16 under Section89 in the form-16 issued by it. Do i have to get a new Form-16 from my ex-company or get some certificate or i can just put the rebate under section89 when i file my tax?
Addendum:
1)I worked in company A) from 26.3.2010 to 31.05.2012. When i left it i withdrew my PF account and received 40000.00 on August'12.
2)Also my interest earned[FY 2012-13] from FD will be around 10000.00 and from savings account will be 8000.00.
@G Das
1. You should mention taxable income and calculate tax in ITR form, it would then compute interest penalty, if any u/s 234B and C, for late payment to taxes.
If there is any amount payable in interest, you should also pay that amount along with pending tax, before filing income tax return.
2. You can compute relief u/s 89 and put that figure in ITR, even if employer has not provided same in form-16.
3. Income tax is payable if EPF balance is withdrawn before five years of continued service (can be with more than one employer but account has to be transferred in that case).
Following components have to be added to person's taxable income to compute tax liability:
a. Interest paid by EPF department on employee contribution
b. Interest paid by EPF department on employer contribution.
c. Amount deposited as employer contribution.
4. Interest earned from FD and saving bank account would be added as taxable income under income from other sources. Rs 8,000 deduction can be taken for saving bank interest u/s 80TTA.
Dear Pankaj,
First of all I would like to thank you for support you are providing to tax payers.
I have 3 questions:
1)When I logged to online e filling site it shows tax credit mismatch. Amount available in 26AS in 4643.92 and while filing I entered 4644. So there is difference of 8 Paise. Can this create issue? Do I need fill revised return?
2)I made mistake in my original e file. I entered incorrect TAN number. So to rectify this I file revised return. In the revised return again I entered incorrect TAN of TDS deducter so I filed second revised return. My question is which ITR V do I need to send to Bangalore. Do I need to send all 3 or just first(original) and third(second revised)?
3)When I logged to online e filling site I saw outstanding Tax Demand of 11000 rs for AY 2008-09. It is under 1431a section. I am not sure why it is showing outstanding tax but when I checked form16 of that year I noticed that my employer deducted tax on time from my salary but it deposited tax to IT department on 24th April which is later than 31st march. So I guess due to this my tax credit is not reflected to 26AS form. In this case its not my fault. Can you please suggest in this case do I need to do anything or do I need to take any action.
If you could answer above questions then it would be great help for me.
Thanks,
Hitesh.
@Hitesh
1. Difference of amount below Rs 100 does not matter.
2. You need to send all 3 ITR-V.
3. I don't think TDS deposit in April can be reason be outstanding tax demand. Reason would be mismatch of tax deposited in ITR and in govt records (what you call form 26AS now). If full taxes have been paid through TDS or self assessment/advance tax, you should submit written application along with form-16 copy to assessment officer. He would then clear outstanding tax demand.
I have got a below mail after e-filing the ITR-2013-14 :-
The Income Tax Department- Centralized Processing Centre (ITD-CPC), Bangalore is not in a position to
proceed with the e-return filed by you, details of which are indicated above. The return is transferred to
Jurisdictional Assessing Officer (in AST) processing of which is to be done by the Jurisdictional Assessing
Officer who may be contacted for further clarifications if any.
What should i have to do?
@Devandra
It may be due to following reasons:
1. Return is filed with income tax ward/circle different from what is mentioned in PAN data
2) return is selected for scrutiny.
I would advise you to contact local income tax office for same.
Is BIMA Bachat policy tax free as far as the payments are received against the policy after 3,6,912 years before final maturity.Am i correct to believe that the maturity receipt will be taxed for any amount in excess of total premium paid.
@S K Bhan
Such money back received would be taxable
1. If policy which has been issued on or after April 1, 2003 and if the premium paid in any of the years during the term of the policy is more than 20% of Sum Assured. Or,
2. If policy has been issued on or after 1st April, 2012 and premium payable in any of the years is more than 10% of the Sum Insured.
Hello Sir,
My friend received communication under section 245 of incometax regarding raising and adjusting demand of 2005-06 for Rs.4500/- with 2013-14'refund. They have asked to meet AO of respected circle. My friends says he has no due for the year 2005-06 nor he received any demand letter from them.
Sir, how to solve this issue.
Regards
Anita
@Anita
Income tax department is picking old records and sending demand notices where there is a mismatch in tax paid and actual.
This mismatch may be due to challan upload issues in TDS/self paid tax.
I would suggest to go to assessing officer with 2005-06 return copy and tax payment proofs (form-16 or challan copy in case of self paid tax). They should clear demand on seeing these proofs.
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Hi Pankaj and team,
My House owner has not given his Pan card copy to me to submit in my company which has become mandatory for rent more than 8333/month. how shall i proceed further. Please suggest me as my company would deny my rental receipts and would add whole HRA in taxable income :(
@Anna
The whole purpose of this declaration of PAN is to identify house owners who does not pay income tax on rental income, or people who show more house rent that what they actually pay.
Clearly your landlord wants to run away from tax liability.
See if is ready to give a declaration that he does not own a PAN card. That would also help.
If that also is not acceptable, you will have no option but to pay tax on whole HRA.
Hi Pankaj,
I spoke with my house owner again regarding this whole thing on why he is not giving me Copy of PANcard. He was a farmer earlier and so he has never applied for a PAN card. He told me that this house where we stay is an ancestral property. He stopped farming due to his age and he has given a part of his house for rent to meet his expenses. He has got no other source of income, his income is <2L/annum. What should I do now. Will Declaration as farmer be accepted? I have asked him to apply a PAN card for future purpose, but what should I do now, as I have to submit proofs in few days. Please advise.
@Anna
You can get a declaration signed by landlord, saying that he does not have PAN card. This can be submitted to employer.
Hi Pankaj and team,
One of my friends paid the taxes with interest by 5th Aug 2013 and had filed returns online. Yet he forgot to post the ITRV to ITD CPC, blr. What would be the next course of action? Please suggest.
@Anna
IT department keeps extending Last date of sending ITR-V, so I would advise to send same as soon as possible.
Most probably they would accept it without any issue.