Income-tax returns, July 17 -- The I-T department has enabled Excel Utility for ITR-1 (Sahaj), ITR-2, ITR-3, and ITR-4 (Sugam), ITR-5 and ITR-7 online forms and notified all of them for assessment year 2026-27 i.e. financial year 2025-26 (AY27 / FY26).

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

Taxpayers can file ITR using the e-filing portal (https://www.incometax.gov.in/). You must register (you will need Aadhaar, PAN and other details) or log into the website with your User ID and password to do so. The deadline was extended to 31 August and...