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.
Calculate Income tax
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.
Pay your tax online
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.
e-File income tax return
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.
Income tax department call center:
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.
Hi Pankaj,
For the current year ( filing return in July 2011 for 2010-2011) Does it require to have digital signature, as i have seen this mentioned on the website. Or the same old way without digital signature will be valid?
@Gaurav
For individuals, income tax return filing with digital signature is not mandatory.
You may file return w/o it and sent ITR-V by post to IT department for verification.
Hi,
I have submitted the ITR without calculating the TAX.
What should i do? 🙁
Thanks in advance for help…. 🙂
@Udita
If there is come changes needs to be made in existing filed income tax return, you should file a revised return.
Process for income tax return filing is same as original one, with some small changes.
1. Return type = Revised in spite of original.
2. Section under which return is filed: 139(5)
3. Provide original date of filing and E-ack number in ITR.
Hi Pankaj,
My form 16 does not reflect my savings under section 80C (Insurance Premiums) and HRA exemptions.
I have the required proofs. Please let me know what to do? Can I still declare my savings in my ITR and send the proofs ?
Thanks,
Shyam
@Shyam
You can declare 80-C savings in ITR, but not the HRA exemption if your salary had HRA component.
No document/proof needs to be submitted along with ITR.
Is it OK to use ITR1 if we have housing loan?
Can we use section “Income From One House Property” for it by show the values in negative? But It is calculating the tax correctly….
OR shall i use ITR 2 ? It looks complicated to me.
I am trying to fill return online. Please Guide.
Thanks in advance,
Ravindra
how can i submit online it return in first time
@Subrata
This post has all the details about filing income tax return online. You may follow the steps mentioned.
I have filled up my ITR 8 Days back still no status available. what should I do?
@Jitu
If you are asking about ITR-V receipt status, it may take 1-2 months for them to acknowledge receipt of your ITR-V.
i wanna fill my IT returns. E-filling its a little bite confusion. Can any1 gimme a C.A. address and number who can fill returns for me. plz sms me on my number 9773405908.
@Prakash
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HI Pankaj,
I have filled my IT return manually for assessment year 2009-10. Unfortunately I have lost my acknowledgement slip. Please can you suggest how to get a duplicate copy.
Can I again file the return online for 2009-10 to get the e-acknowledgement. there are no dues.
Abhijit Mishra
@Abhijit
Unfortunately there is no way to fetch acknowledgment slip online for physically filed returns.
And if return has been already filed, it cannot be filed again unless its revised. Assessment for same would already be done so it won’t be considered now.
You may ask your assessing officer to provide a duplicate copy of return.
Dear Sir,
I have to state that I have not received my TDS Refund since 2009-10 & 2010-11 so far. Please arrange to provide the same as earliest as possible. My Pan Number:- ALXPS7198B, E-filling Acknowledgement number:- 96944931300909 & 168234300091010.
Thanks & Regards
Niranjanlal Sharma
Mobile No. 9810049364
e-mail id :- [email protected]
Dear sir,
My refund for the assessment year 2009-10 was returned back due to non availability at the mentioned address. Please advise us how to change my communication address.
regards
venkatarao
PAN: AFFPD4535F
ack no:191798250260211
@Venkatarao
You should apply for address change in PAN records. It can be done online here: https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/changerequest.html.
After that you should write a letter to your assessing officer to dispatch refund warrant at new address. Also enclose a copy of your PAN card, income tax return, address change application number/proof and new address proof.
Sir,
I want to fill my income tax return form by online but i can’t gate form for fill online . Plz tell me how i can i fill online income tax return form
@Mahendra
You can download excel income tax return form, fill it, generate XML and upload to income tax e-filing website.
DEAR,
I AM SANJIV GUPTA WANT TO KNOW THE LAST DATE FOR FILING RETURN FOR THE F.Y.2010-11 TAX AUDIT OF COMPANY, WEHTHER IT LAST DATE 0F 30THSEPT WILL EXTENDED FOR THE FESTIVES SEASONS COMING AHEAD. PL INFORM ME AT [email protected]
@Sanjiv
Last year it was extended to 15 Oct, 2010. As of now this year it still is 30 Sept, 2011.
I filed my ITR first time via e-filing.I am a salaried person and got form-16,and i don’t have any other income.my query is in place of income tax ward/circle I wrote TDS CIRCLE JAMSHEDPUR.As I am working in jamshedpur(jharkhand) but my PAN card is from bhilai-chhattisgarhwhat should I do now?
@Ankit
It should not be an issue. Income tax ward/circle will be a re-assigned automatically based on address mentioned in income tax return.
Dear Sir,
Could you pl.guide me on following points:
I am being asked to join Foreign company with following conditions:
1)As a freelancer/Consultant Engineer/Contract Engineer i.e. SELF Employed
2)Will my income be deducted under IT s44AB (Profession;means FEES),expenses.Thereafter taxes?
3) Can I get benefit of 80RRA?As I will work for foreign company & my consultancy will be rendered outside India.Fees will be in USD.
4)Can I get benefit of both deduction i.e 44AB & 80RRA together,other deuction as a expenses?
I would appreciate your response.
Thanks a lot!
@Dinesh
Your income would be treated as income from business or profession. You would need to file ITR-4 income tax return.
If your gross receipts are more than 15 lakh in financial year, your accounts would need to be audited under section 44AB.
Under 80RRA, deduction is allowed upto 75% on remuneration brought into India under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA).
We are not sure if bouth 44AB and 80RRA can be used together.
We would advise you to take help of an experienced tax professional in this matter as it involves foreign currency and we have little knowledge on this subject.
Hi Pankaj,
I am an executive working in an MNC. I have not filed my return for for the financial year 2010-2011. Can I file it now?
Thanks
Ashima
@Ashima
You can still file income tax return for FY 2010-11.
Dear Sir,
I want submit the form16 througu online, but i don’t have any returns only submit the form16 what ever i receiver from16 from our office.
kindly help me out on this process.
@K.Nageswararao
You can file income tax return online. There is no need to submit form-16 anywhere.
inport tax kya hai or ye kitne percent lagta hai
@Sanjay
We are not able to understand your query. Can you please explain in more details.
Hi Pankaj,
I have an Important question for you. I filled my Income Tax Return through Tax Smile. Once I paid my Income Tax Return, I then paid my Payable Tax via the same site and got Axis Bank Receipt with all the details of the payments. Now I have received a Intimation/Receipt from CPC Bangalore along with to be paid Net Payable amount which i have already paid. What has to be done next from my side?
Please guide.
@Amit
You would need to write to your assessing office for correction in their records. Please make sure to attach all relevant proofs like Form-16, Challan receipts etc.
Also check form-26AS online to see if the self assessment tax paid by you is showing in your statement.
hello sir,
i dont have It returns till now i ahvent files it.Now iam going for loan whereas i need 2 yrs of It returns so how can i go ahead.is that time taking process.how do i get my 2 yrs it returns .i havnet taken from last employer.
plaese let me know in detail
waiting for ur reply
Anitha
@Anitha
You may file late income tax return now for last two years. But I am not really sure if it would be acceptable to bank for loan approval.
You may also provide Form-16 to bank in-spite of ITRs. They generally process on basis of that too.
Hi Pankaj,
Thank you for prompt reply, I verified Self Assesment Tax paid from my side at https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/oltas/index.html and found it has successfully been paid with the exact amount. so still do I need to write it to the assesment officer to make corrections?
Best Regards
Amit
@Amit
Please check in form 26AS (https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/form26ASInfo.do) too.
You still have to write to assessment officer to correct that issue. If you don’t communicate, they will carry over this demand in next year and may adjust against your refund in future, if any.
Need some help. what is form-12c? i suppose it is something to do with home loan interest. but, in the form, i find nothing related to it. can you please advise?
@Atanu
12-C is used to declare other income apart from salaries, so that extra tax can be deducted/adjusted with TDS itself.
In head, Income from house property, negative value should be shown for home loan interest payment.