UPDATE - Income Tax Department has issued Instructions for filing of Income Tax Returns containing 988 pages.

UPDATE - Income Tax Department has issued Instructions for filing of Income Tax Returns containing 988 pages.

Jun 07, 2021

UPDATE - Income Tax Department has issued Instructions for filing of Income Tax Returns containing 988 pages.

Instructions for filing ITR 1 (SAHAJ) are from Page 1-52 (Total 52 Pages), ITR 2 are from Page 53-177 (Total 125 Pages), ITR 3 are from Page 178-408 (Total 231 Pages), ITR 4 (SUGAM) are from Page 409-480 (Total 72 Pages), ITR 5 are from Page 481-676 (Total 196 Pages), ITR 6 are from Page 677-863 (Total 187 Pages) and ITR-7 are from Page 864-988 (Total Pages 125).

The instructions are mainly regarding (1) year for which particular form is applicable (2)eligibility for filing particular form (3) non eligibility for filing particular form (4) key changes in return form as compared to last year (5) manner of filing of form (6) manner of verification (7) Income tax provisions regarding liability to file return ( description of each field of return form and (9) validation rules (technical part)(for which return preparation softwares may take care).