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.
I am a house wife , my yearly income not more then 1 LAC from privet tutions . I have a fixed Deposit
Kindly advise how to file my IT retuns
@Anju Manoj Pathak,
Please download ITR 1 from above article and file return by using steps above.
The problem of error ” Please select proper xml for processing ” is widespread” and is on account of some faulty latest schema or errors in generation of xml and many taxpayers are facing the same as experienced by magesh in his post dated 14th.I have tried to open the file in editor and found that there is some variation in files generated by the latest excel utility and the schema provided by the ITax site as stated by you. some people have forwarded the files generated to IT efiling help by email and the reply is still awaited and as the dead line of 31st is approaching , how to resolve the issue.
nath
@S.Nath,
Please contact Aayakar Sampark Kendra (ASK) call center on 124-2438000.
Hi Pankaj,
My first name and surname was misplaced in the IT database for my PAN numbe while paying tax online. Shall i proceed pay tax online and file even my name was not correct.
Please guide me
@Sathish,
If the name is incorrect on PAN card, it will take time to get it corrected and get new PAN card issued.
It will be better in that case, that first you file your return and later get the PAN information corrected.
Hi Pankaj,
Thanks a lot for all the info. Your site was very helpful in enabling me to fill up my online ITR-V form.
Very informative and helpful.Wonderful effort on your part.
Regards,
Neha
Pankaj,
I filed my return for AY 2008-2009 through hardcopy. Now is there a possibility to refile, as i missed to include my investment details and hence i am eligible to get the money back.
@Rajesh,
Yes you can file a revised return with investment details.
Click here to file income tax return through Taxsmile
Do I need to sign the ITR-V form that I download from the site before sending it via post to Bangalore, or do I just download the form and send it as-is without any modifications? The form I have downloaded is without digital signature – but has a provision for signature in the “Verification” section – I am confused whether I need to sign the hardcopy of the printout before mailing it out
@Thomas,
Yes you need to sign ITR-V before sending it across.
i want to fill income tax returns fill but i dont no how to fill pls guide
@Manoj,
Please read the steps above in post.
hi sir
i have filed my e-return and received my acknowledge by email if i would like to get the copy of return how can i get it
with regards
taj
Hello Sir,
On the Income tax site, there is no option showing to file revised income tax return.
Can u please tell me from where on net i can revise my return.
Rgds,
@Charnjeet,
You have to fill revised return in same excel form with mentioning return type as revised in spite of original.
Hi Pankaj,
Last year I submitted my T returns online, but i submitted my acknowledgement at the IT office and got it stamped instead of sending it to Bangalore address. I have refunds to obtain and when i checked the return status for last year, it shows “Refund cheque not deposited in bank for more than 120 days”. Now am confused if I should file my returns again, or my returns is verified.
Thanks in advance,
Aswathy
@Aswathy,
You don’t have to file return again. Refund status check works only for selected cities. Its better that you contact your ward income tax officer for refund. If it does not help, you can file RTI.
DEAR PANKAJ,
INUMEROIUS CLICKS ON “GENERATE XML FILE” ON THE 1ST SHEET OF THE EXCEL FORMAT HASN’T HELPED. HOW TO GENERATE XML FILE. PLS DO HELP.
@Arindam,
Please make sure that Macros are enabled in Microsoft Excel as because of security reasons, excel disable the buttons on income tax return form
Hey Pankaj,
How are you doing?
I recently got the ack of ITR V form i had sent to blore IT office via post, in my email. Now until yester-years we used to furnish the stamped copy of our return as IT return proof. What is it gona be this time around?
thanks
Jaspreet
@Jaspreet,
You can print ITR-V as a proof. As these are computer generated so they don’t require stamp/signature.
Oh, so that stamped scanned copy of the form they said they might upload, will be insignificant? right?
@Jaspreet,
I don’t think that they will be sending scanned copy of form. So whatever ITR-V you have can be used as a ITR proof.
It makes me wonder abt the logic of the whole exercise. So, what if I just dnload it n dont post it to IT dept? As it is, the proof im gona use (ITR V form) doesnt have any info if I did send it across.
@Jaspreet
If you have uploaded your return xml to income tax website, that means you have filed income tax return. ITR-V is just an acknowledgment for the same.
Hey thanks a lot for replying to my posts yaar. So coming back … actually my question was on the need of mailing the hardcopy back to IT dept. Shouldn’t it have been enough for us to upload xml n dnload ITR V?
@Jaspreet
Yes, it should be sufficient in case you sign it with digital signature. Income tax Return is a statement and it needs signature.
If you read the ITR-V, the statement says I solemnly declare to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information given in the return and the schedules thereto which have been transmitted electronically by me vide acknowledgement number mentioned above is correct and complete and that the amount of total income/ fringe benefits and other particulars shown therein are truly stated and are in accordance with the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961, in respect of income and fringe benefits chargeable to income-tax for the previous year relevant to the assessment year 2009-10. I further declare that I am making this return in my capacity as and I am also competent to make this return and verify it.
Oh yes. now it makes sense 🙂 I really appreciate your efforts in responding to me n helping with the clarification 🙂
Hi Pankaj,
Thanks a lot for this support. I had submitted my return online with digital signature before 31st Jul. Due to some technical reason, digital signature was not acknowledged in IT website and I got an ITR-V with message to send to Bangalore CPC. After a week, I tried again- system accepted as a revised return – and this time I got it digitally signed. Do I need to do any thing about the first one (Original) received in email.
@Raju,
Ideally you should send ITR-V for first one to Bangalore address through simple post as it will be used in reference to your revised return.
Thank you Pankaj
hi sirs,
plz advice me for i have filed e return and i want to get stamped copy of my return, how can i get this
thanks in advance
with regards
taj
@Taj,
You can used copy of ITR-V as return proof as its computer generated and with income tax department bar code.
I am trying to file my it return for assessment year 2008-09. I have validated the file and everything is ok. When I upload the xml file I get the following message.
The due date for IT Return of ReturnFileSec 11 for Assessment Year 2008 is only till 31-03-2009. Please contact DIT Administrator for further details
Please help
@Rajesh
For previous year, you cannot file online now, you have to do it off-line only.
Thanks. Is it possible to file online for 2009-10 now.
@Rajesh
yes, you can file income tax return for assessment year 2009-10 now also.
Dear Sir,
I have electronically filed my company return with out digital signature which is not liable to tax audit whether it is correct or i will revised the same return with digital signature becuase comany’s statutory audit have done by chartered accountant. please give me guidance.
@Pawan
Sorry but I don’t have much idea about taxation of businesses. Please consult any tax professional in this regard.
Hi,
I want to file ITR for financial year 2008-09. What is the last date for it? Am a simple salaried person and have got form 16 from my employer.
Am a newbie so my question may seem very basic.
Thanks.
@Muskaan
Last date for income tax filing for financial year 08-09 was 31st July, 2009. You can still file return. But if there is some pending payment then you will have to pay surcharge on that.
Hi Again,
One more question. Since my father does not have an online internet account in any bank can I deposit the taxes for my father from my account?
Any help appreciated.
Regards.
@Muskaan
Yes, you can submit tax on your father’s name from your online bank account.
While making challan payment, use your father’s details (PAN card, name etc).
Thanks Pankaj for your prompt reply.
One more question. I downloaded ITR1 excel utility from the URL given above and tried to enter the details in “TDS” sheet. Should I enter details in table 21 or 22 or 23?
According to me it should be table 21 (Details of Tax deducted at source from Salary as per form 16 issued by employer)
But my form 16 does not have all the details like “Income chargeable under the head salary”, ” deduction under chapter V1 A” etc.
Also, where I should enter BSR code, CIN, and other details?
Infact, table 23 seems more appropriate to me. But it is for “Details of advance tax and self assessment tax payments”. Please help…
Thanks in advance.