How to File Income Tax Returns Online For AY 2019-20
The IT Department has released an e-filing software for all ITR forms for the financial year 2017-18. Out of this only ITR-1 or ITR-4, can be filed completely online without downloading any software in Excel or Java. After keeping the required documents ready, file tax returns completely online by following these steps:
If you are already registered, login to your income tax account by providing your User ID (your PAN), Password and Captcha
Select the appropriate assessment year, ITR form name as ITR-1 or ITR-4 as per the applicability and submission mode as “Prepare and Submit Online”
If you had filed online ITR before, you can select details which will be automatically prefilled to the selected ITR form. Select those details which you want to be prefilled and click on “Continue”
Now you will be redirected to a page where you will start filling out the form. However, before you start filling the form, read the ‘ General Instructions‘ given at the start carefully to avoid mistakes.
Once you are done reading the instructions, you can start filling in the required information in different tabs, i.e., ‘General information‘, ‘Income details‘, ‘Tax details‘ ‘Taxes paid and verification‘ and ‘80G‘ in the ITR form.