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.
R/SIR IN THIS YEAR MY C.A SUBMITTED MY ONLINE ITAX RETURN FIRST TIME. NEXT TIME I WANT TO CHANGE MY C.A OR I WILL BE SUBMITT MY ONLINE ITAX RETURN. MYSELF. IF MY C.A NOT GIVE ME MY USER ID AND PASSWORD ? SO HOW CAN I KNOW MY USER ID AND PASSWORD. pl. reply me as early as possible
@Sushil
Username would be your PAN number only.
You can reset your password from this page: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/register.do?screen=showforgotpwd
R/SIR IN THIS YEAR MY C.A SUBMITTED MY ONLINE ITAX RETURN FIRST TIME. NEXT TIME I WANT TO CHANGE MY C.A OR I WILL BE SUBMITT MY ONLINE ITAX RETURN. MYSELF. IF MY C.A NOT GIVE ME MY USER ID AND PASSWORD ? SO HOW CAN I KNOW MY USER ID AND PASSWORD. pl. reply me as early as possible
i reset my password but it send my register email. my registered email is my c.a.mail. so how i can reset my password. without c.a help who registered my pan for online itax return. so pl help for or trick to reset my password.
@Sushil
You should ask your CA to provide you login details or ask him to change email id in accounts to your email id.
Once you login, you can change email id registered in account.
If nothing works, you should call income tax department call center on 1800-425-2229, 080-26982000, 1961 or 1800-180-1961.
thank you.
i bave received a SMS ” recevied & accepted” after 50 days of efiling . My question is … ITD approved my return? if yes, then when i will accepting refund?
@P.Paul
SMS must be about receiving your ITR-V. It does not mean that return has been processed yet. It may take upto 2-3 more months for refund issue.
Hi Pankaj,
I received my return form with subject “Income Tax Return for PAN AKExxxxx3C A.Y. 2012-13- Receipt of ITRV at CPC” from [email protected]. But the attachment is not opening seems corrupted while attching/saving the file. Please let me know whom i need to contact to get correct one.
Regards,
Anna
@Anna
As such, email acknowledgement of ITRV receipt is sufficient and attached file would not have any extra information.
But if you want it, you can also get it by logging into efiling website and going onto E-filing Process Status page: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/EndUserMenu.do?screen=euEfilingProcessStatusResults
Thanks Pankaj for ur previous reply.
I have one question that my client had filed a return for A.y. 2009-10 and A.Y. 2010-11. In both those returns he had claimed refund but due to quoting wrong PAN in those return his refund hadn’t received yet. So I want to know the procedure for getting refund of that. Is it possible?
@Dhara
As last date of return filing for these year is passed now, he may not be able to claim refund now.
But he should visit income tax office and submit his grievances in writing there.
With the coming of web world, filing your income tax return is much easier. Just fill up a form online and you are all set.
I have paid some tax amount after 31 October. However, this is not being reflected in the online Form 26, which only shows payments up to 31 October. Do you know when the online tax credit system will show my tax payment?
I would like to refile my tax return, so can I just include the tax credit paid after 31 October for which I have a receipt?
You can file your return wout waiting for Form 26AS update. You meed to quote BSR code from your challan while filing tax return.
@Surjeet
Tax paid even after financial year end can be shown in income tax return, tax should have been paid for correct assessment year.
Even if it does not show in form 26AS as of now, if you have BSR code and other details, you can file using same.
While entering transaction in ITR-2, we inadvertently forgot to fill TDS column because of which it has shown Self Tax Assessment payment Rs.78000/- payable by us. We have received letter dated 4/12/2012 from Income Tax Deptt. to pay the above amount.
In the meantime we have sent today revised ITR-2 by filling TDS column now its show the amount to be payable Rs.0/.
Now how to reply Income Tax Deptt.
Please guide us.
Thanks
Anita
@Anita
As ITR has already been processed and you got intimation from IT department, you need to file rectification request from income tax return filing website.
I am going to submit a revised return now. Some self-assessment tax was left unpaid. Now I have paid the tax. My original return was submitted before the due date i.e. 31 August 2012. Which section does the revised return come under?
To buy a house I need to file income tax return of last two financial years. Can I file the return now? and how to file it?
@Ashwin
Yes, you can file income tax returns now as well.
This post has all details required to e-file.
Hi Pankaj,
I am from Delhi. In my last fin year, I had worked in two different companies, I filed ITR with details from both the companies. but IT dept doesn’t have complete info about my ITR, they claimed amount paid by companies are lesser than actual. though I can see AS 26 doc is correct and having actual data which is available online.
What could be my next step?
@Sameer
You can file a rectification request in response to income tax department intimation. It can be done online on e-filing website.
I haven’t got any notice from IT dept as such. They have mailed me document with subject “Status of your Income tax return for my Pan”, Even in document, They didn’t ask for anything or any kind of notice. shall I not wait for their notice?
@Sameer
That’s official communication from income tax department. You can file rectification request by providing communication reference number provided in email/attachment.
yeah, I tried for rectification request with reference no. CPC/1213/M1/1209785358, but it says Invalid CPC comm. reference number.
@Sameer
You should now call IT department call center.
Hi Sameer I have similar error, did you get your problem fixed, if yes how. Please share
Sir,
Wish you a very Happy New Year 2013.
My friend’s son did not get refund for the last two years from the Income Tax Deptt. Please guide us what procedure to follow to get the refund.
Thanks
Anita
Pl chk online status of Refund in Form 26AS. If no status, then you can approach Income Tax Ombudsman through Incometax website
@Anita
First, you should check refund status on IT website: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/e-Filing/UserLogin/LoginHome.html?nextPage=refundStatus
In case, there is no update, you should file RTI or complaint with ombudsman (http://www.incometaxindiapr.gov.in/incometaxindiacr/home.jsp?p1=ombudsman_contacts)
What is the procedure for rectification of tax paid? I have paid a tax amount after the due date after receiving a notice under Section 221(1) from the IT dept. Should I use the rectification procedure?
@Mohanram
If the demand raised by CPC has been paid off by you, you need not to file rectification. The demand will automatically get reduced by the payments made therein (minor code 400).
Dear Sir,
My wife had filed IT returns for A.Y 2008-09 (FY 2007-08) but she has not received the refund as on date. When we checked it online it says ‘ Under process, with Assessment Officer’. When we contacted CPC, they told that for AY 2008-09, we need to follow up for refund directly from concerned ITO as it does not come under CPC as I guess CPC was established & became functional a year after that. Now when we approached Concerned officer, he told us that refund has been paid by cheque & please check your account. We told him that we selected for electronic Refund method (not via Cheque) & more over when we are checking refund status online it is showing as ‘ With the Assessment Officer’. After that we checked our bank account just to ensure if we received any funds / cheque through IT dept. We found that no cheque Or refund in any other form has been done. That means the concerned officer was lying just to send us back. Please guide me how can I follow up from this situation when Assessment officer itself is not co-operating ? We belong to Ward 14(5) [ Bangalore ] Looking for your guidance desperately.
@Godwin
You should meet Mr. M.L. AGRAWAL, Income-tax Ombudsman at 4th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangals, Bangalore – 560034, Ph : 080-25538389.
Dear Sir,
Thank you very much for your guidance.
Dear sir
i have a proprioter ship export farm but i have not export till today so what i should do the return file or not
@Dinesh
We don’t have much knowledge for business/export income cases. Please consult a CA/tax professional for same.
Hello Sir,
My colleague’s wife has received demand notification vide CPC 11112/D1/1106534474 dated 15/3/2013 for Rupess 6110/-. Actually, we filled the ITR online as per form No.16 provided by her employe.
Although the above amount has been dedcuted by her employer from salary but they have not submitted the same to tax authorities due to some stay order.
Please guide in this regard.
@Anita
She should visit income tax office and meet assessing officer with Form-16 copy to get demand cleared.
As form-16 has been issued, its not the employee’s responsibility now but employer’s to deposit taxes on time.
Hi Pankaj,
I received a demand notice saying that, I have to pay Rs. 14590 tax outstanding for the assessment year 2008-09. I don’t have any other income than salary, my form-16 showing that my pending tax balance is 0. Please suggest me what should I do for this?
Thanks
Satya
@Satya
You should visit income tax office, meet assessing officer, provide him copy of form-16 and ask him to clear the demand.
As Govt does not have enough money, they are asking for unnecessary taxes from previous years and not paying refunds to anybody.
Sir, How to sign on ITR-1 form MS-excel file?
Is it compulsory to sign in ITR-1 form, while we file ITR online?
Kindly reply soon.
Thanks!
Regards,
Brijesh Shekhda
+91-9033058550
@Brijesh
There is no need to sign in the excel file.
Once you file income tax return online, an acknowledgement file would be generated (ITR-V), which you need to sign and send to the CPC address.
Okay. Thanks a lot sir… ITR-5 is automatically full filled all the details, while I will filled ITR-1. OR I need to fill up and send it….
And 2nd one is, Can I send ITR-5 to CPC via Speed Post or Not?
@Brijesh
ITR-V is automatically filled and you just need to sign it and it can be sent by speed post or regular Indian post service (but not by courier)
Okay thanks a lot sir for all your good and fast responses….