Income-tax returns, July 16 -- The I-T department has notified all its ITR forms for assessment year 2026-27 i.e. financial year 2025-26 (AY27 / FY26) and enabled Excel Utility for the ITR-1 (Sahaj), ITR-2, ITR-3, and ITR-4 (Sugam), ITR-5 and ITR-7 online forms.

Availability of excel utility means that you can prepare your returns offline before filing in the details and uploading the file digitally. You can find all forms here - https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/downloads/income-tax-returns

Taxpayers have till 31 August to file their returns by logging into the e-filing portal with your User ID and password. The deadline was extended by a month from 31 July earlier.

To file your returns, you must register on the portal (you wi...