1. Select appropriate type of Return Form 2. Download Return Preparation Software for selected Return Form. 3. Fill your return offline and generate a XML file. 4. Register and create a user id/password 5. Login and click on relevant form on left panel and select "Submit Return". 6. Browse to select XML file and click on "Upload" button. 7. On successful upload acknowledgment details would be displayed. Click on "Print" to generate printout of acknowledgment/ITR-V Form. 8. In case the return is digitally signed, on generation of "Acknowledgment" the Return Filing process gets completed. You may take a printout of the Acknowledgment for your record. 9. Incase the return is not digitally signed, on successful uploading of e-Return, the ITR-V Form would be generated which needs to be printed by the tax payers. This is an acknowledgement cum verification form. The tax payer has to fill-up the verification part and verify the same. A duly verified ITR-V form should be mailed to “Income Tax Department – CPC, Post Bag No - 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bangalore - 560100, Karnataka, ” BY ORDINARY POST OR SPEEDPOST ONLY within 120 days after the date of transmitting the data electronically. 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. In case, Form ITR-V, is furnished after the above mentioned period, it will be deemed that the return in respect of which the Form ITR-V has been filed was never furnished and it shall be incumbent on the assessee to electronically re-transmit the data and follow it up by submitting the new Form ITR-V within 120 days. This completes the Return filing process for non-digitally signed Returns.
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