New Delhi, July 13 -- The Income-Tax Department has enabled Excel Utility for the ITR-5 and ITR-7 forms for taxpayers on its e-filing portal for financial year 2025-26 (FY26) i.e. assessment year 2026-27 (AY27). Notably, availability of excel utility means that you can prepare your returns offline before uploading them digitally.

The authority had earlier also released Excel Utility for the ITR-1 (Sahaj), ITR-2, ITR-3, and ITR-4 (Sugam) online forms. You can find the same 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.

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