How to e-verify ITR: After filing ITR, its e-verification is mandatory, only after that your ITR filing process is considered complete. If you have filled the ITR but have not verified it, then it will be declared invalid.
How to e-verify ITR: Income tax returns are being filled fast. Till around 10 July, more than 2 crore taxpayers have filed their ITR. If you have not yet filed your ITR, then you have time till July 31, 2023 to settle this work. Just remember that along with filing the tax return, you will also have to e-verify ITR. After filing your ITR, its e-verification is mandatory, only after that your ITR filing process is considered complete. If you have filled the ITR but have not verified it, then it will be declared invalid.
Taxpayers can e-verify their ITR through EVC ie electronic verification code option. You have the option of online as well as offline ITR verification process. Let us also know some more things about e-verification before understanding the process.
What are the rules on ITR Verification?
When you will fill your ITR on the e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department, you will also be given the option to e-verify the ITR. There are three options available in this – to e-verify immediately, to e-verify within 120 days and to verify offline. If you choose I would like to e-verify then you have to verify immediately by entering prevalidated bank and demat account details with Aadhaar OTP or EVC and then submit the ITR. Keep in mind that you have to enter the EVC or OTP within 60 seconds, otherwise the form will be auto-saved and then you will have to do the verification later.
If you choose the option of verification or offline verification within 120 days of filing, then your ITR will be submitted now, but the process will remain incomplete, you will have to verify it later by going to the e-verify return option, or Bengaluru CPC has to send ITR verification form.
What are the methods to e-verify ITR?
E-verification means online verification, and here we will tell you about online verification. You can e-verify your ITR in several ways.
- OTP on Aadhaar registered mobile number
- From EVC generated with your pre-validated bank account
- From EVC generated with your pre-validated demat account
- From EVC in ATM (offline method).
- Through NetBanking
- DSC stands for Digital Signature Certificate.
How to e-verify ITR? (Steps to e-Verify income tax return)
Step 1- First of all go to the portal of e-filing and log in. On the home page, you will see the option of e-verify Return, click on it.
Step 2- On the e-verify return page, enter your PAN, choose assessment year and mobile number along with the acknowledgment number of ITR, then click on continue.
Step 3- Now enter the 6 digit mobile number received on your mobile number and submit it.
Step 4- But if you are filing ITR after 120/30 days of filing then click on OK.
Step 5- You have to enter condonation delay request here. And why the delay has happened, the reason has to be given, it can be selected from the dropdown menu.
Step 7- Now choose one of the above mentioned methods of e-verify and then e-verify.
