New Delhi, July 27 -- The income-tax department has enabled excel utility for the ITR-1 (Sahaj), ITR-2, ITR-3, and ITR-4 (Sugam), ITR-5 and ITR-7 online forms and notified all of them for the tax year. Notably, the availability of excel utility means that you can prepare your returns offline before filing in the details and uploading the file digitally. Access it here: https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/downloads/income-tax-returns

You can file your returns online by logging into (first-time filers must register) the official e-filing portal using User ID and password - https://www.incometax.gov.in/ before the 31 July deadline.

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