How To Check If My ITR Is Filed With Income Tax Department

Income tax return filing—this one term has so much embedded in it. A series of activities take place after filing an ITR. The return shall be submitted, verified, and processed. How can you be sure that the return you filed has actually reached the Income Tax Department?

Being income tax filers, we all get exited to know how much of the tax will be refunded back to us. The return status can be checked online by logging into https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/

Thereafter, you have two routes to check your Income Tax Return status

• The option to check ITR status on the Income Tax Portal without logging in is no longer available; now, you will have to log into the income tax portal to check whether you want to check the ITR status or income tax refund status. Here is the process to check the ITR status.
• Logging into your efiling account https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/
• After logging into your account, click on the e-File option on the top left corner of the screen, and then take the cursor on the Income tax returns; four new options will appear as shown below, click on the “View Filed Return.”
• You'll find a list of all your filed ITRs here. Simply select the one you need to check status for and click "View Details" to check the status of your ITR.
• A new screen will appear that will show you the Activity/ Status of ITR On checking your income tax return status, any of the following messages might show up. Lets decode each one in detail to assist you while checking ITR status next time.
• ITR Filed
  Your return has been filed with the income tax department but the same has not yet been verified. A return is complete and valid only when it is verified within 30 days of filing. You can either e verify your return online or sign and send it to CPC Bengaluru. To know how to verify your return, visit here
• Pending for e-verification
  It means your return has been filed but not yet e-verified yet.
• Successfully e-verified
  Your return has been filed with the department and you have successfully verified the same. Now, the Tax authorities will process the same.
• Under Processing
  The tax department works on analyzing i.e., making an assessment of the ITR filed.
  The authorities will check whether you disclosed correct information, whether there is any refund payable or tax demand, whether there is any error in the return so filed, etc.
• Return processed and refund paid
  It’s time to celebrate as it means the tax authorities has checked your return and issued refund. The refund has been either successfully credited to your bank account or cheque has been issued to you. This marks closure for the process of ITR status as no more follow up is further required.
• Processed, refund determined, and sent to refund banker
  After processing your return, if the income tax department concludes that a refund is payable to you, it shall issue the same. This status means that your refund has been processed, the refund amount has been checked, and an order to credit it to your account has been issued by the department to banking authorities. Your refund is between banking channels and shall be reflected in your account in a couple of days!!
• Return processed with No demand and No refund
  The ITR you filed for the year has been processed by the income tax authorities also calculation for tax has been made. The authorities found that neither the refund was payable to you nor you are liable to pay any taxes. The TDS or advance tax you paid was = the tax required to be paid for the year.
• Return processed and tax demand determined
  Well, this is not good news. The IT authorities, after processing your return, saw that you had deposited lower taxes than you were required to do. This may be because you have claimed any wrong deduction or exemption, or might be because you forgot to include any income or as a result of any clerical error. You will now be required to pay the balance taxes with interest applicable or file rectification of ITR.
• Processed and refund returned unpaid
  This means the refund due to you exceeded Rs. 50,000/- hence, it was issued through cheque. The cheque so issued has returned back to the department undelivered. It might be because no one was available at the delivery address to receive the cheque, or the address mentioned in ITR was found to be incorrect. In this case, you will be required to place a refund reissue request. The request can be placed online.

We, as common users, often find it difficult to understand whether our ITR has actually been filed with the department or not. Or even if filed at what stage our refund is. The ITR status shown as a one-liner is often not suffice to be interpreted. Here, we tried to resolve all related queries; even if you are looking forward to any kind of assistance to manage your taxes, file your ITR, ITR refund status, or Income Tax notice, our dedicated team of tax experts can help you with all tax-related matters. Since the Income Tax Return filing has already been started, do not wait for the last date to file ITR. Book eCA Today.