The Income Tax Portal has enabled the facility of filing of updates income tax returns (ITRs) including ITR-1 to ITR-7 electronically, the department informed.
As per the income tax law, so as to furnish much more time to the assessee it is asked to begin a new provision under section 139(8A) of the Act for furnishing the Updated income tax return of income by any individual if he has furnished a return formerly for the related assessment year or not.
“E-filing of Updated ITR u/s 139(8A) has also been enabled for ITR 7 for AY 2020-21 and AY 2021-22 using Excel utility. Refer details in News section. Please click Downloads | Income Tax Department to access and download the same for clicking respective AY folder. Once Updated ITR is prepared, you can upload the XML/JSON by logging into Income-tax website,” the income tax department informed today.
ITR-1 is a return filing form applicable to the individual who derive income from salary, rent, and interest. ITR-4S is an income tax return form used by those assessees, who have chosen presumptive business income, and also derives their income from salary, rent, and interest.
Any taxpayer can use the ITR-7 Form for filing Income Tax Return if they file as a Trust, Company, Firm, Local authority, Association of Person (AOP) or Artificial Judicial Person and claims exemption under Section 139 (4A), Section 139 (4B), Section 139 (4C) or Section 139 (4D).
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