How to check Income Tax Return (ITR) Status?

What are the different types of ITR statuses?

• Submitted and pending for e-Verification / Verification: This is the status when you have filed your ITR but have not e-Verified it, or your duly signed ITR-V has not been received at CPC yet.
• Successfully e-Verified / Verified: This is the status when you have submitted and duly e-Verified / Verified your return, but the return has not been processed yet.
• Processed: This is the status when your return is successfully processed.
• Defective: This is the status where the department notices some defect in the filed return due to lack of certain essential information as required under law, or some inconsistencies. In such a case, you will receive a notice under section 139(9) asking you to rectify the defect within a specified time limit from the date of receiving notice. If you don't respond to a defective return status, your ITR will be treated as invalid, and is not taken up for processing.
• Case transferred to Assessing Officer: This is the status when the CPC has transferred your ITR to your jurisdictional AO. If your case is transferred to your AO, you will be contacted by the officer to provide necessary details.

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How to track your ITR filing status?

The ITR Status service is available (pre-login and post-login) to the following registered users:

• All taxpayers for ITRs filed against their PAN
• Authorized Signatory, ERI, and Representative Assessee for ITRs filed by them in such a role

This service allows the above users to view the details of ITRs filed:

• View and download the ITR-V Acknowledgement, uploaded JSON (from the offline utility), complete ITR form in PDF, and intimation order
• View the return(s) pending for verification

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How to check your ITR status (Pre-Login)?

Step 1: Go to the e-Filing portal homepage.

Step 2: Click Income Tax Return (ITR) Status.

Step 3: On the Income Tax Return (ITR) Status page, enter your acknowledgement number and a valid mobile number and click Continue.

Step 4: Enter the 6-digit OTP received on your mobile number entered in Step 3 and click Submit.

Note:

• OTP will be valid for 15 minutes only.
• You have 3 attempts to enter the correct OTP.
• The OTP expiry countdown timer on screen tells you when the OTP will expire.
• On clicking Resend OTP, a new OTP will be generated and sent.

On successful validation, you will be able to view the ITR status.

If your PAN is inoperative, refund cannot be issued. Kindly link your PAN with Aadhaar after paying requisite fee u/s 234H.

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How to Check your ITR status (Post-Login)?

Step 1: Log in to the e-Filing portal using your valid user ID and password.

For individual users, if PAN is not linked with the Aadhaar, you will see a pop-up message that your PAN is made inoperative as it is not linked with your Aadhaar.

To link the PAN with Aadhaar, click on Link Now button else click Continue.

Step 2: Click e-File > Income Tax Returns > View Filed Returns.

Step 3: On the View Filed Returns page, you will be able to view all the returns filed by you. You will be able to download the ITR-V Acknowledgement, uploaded JSON (from the offline utility), complete ITR form in PDF, and intimation order (by using the options on the right-hand side).

Note:

If your PAN is inoperative, you will see a pop -up message that Refund cannot be issued as your PAN is Inoperative. You can link your PAN by clicking on Link Now button otherwise you can click Continue.

Note:

• Click Filter to view your filed returns based on different criteria (AY or Filing Type).
• Click Export to Excel to export your returns data to excel format.

Click View Details to view the life cycle of the return and action items related to it (e.g., returns pending for e-Verification).

Let’s decode each one in detail to assist you while checking the 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 filed, etc.
• Return processed and refund paid
  It’s time to celebrate, as it means the tax authorities have checked your return and issued a refund. The refund has been either successfully credited to your bank account or a cheque has been issued to you. This marks the closure of 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 and 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 is equal to 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 it 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 cheque 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.

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Where can I find my acknowledgement number to enter when checking my ITR status?

• You can check your acknowledgement number from your ITR-V received on your registered email after e-Filing your return. Your ITR-V is also downloadable from the e-Filing portal post login: e-File > Income Tax Returns > View Filed Returns > Download Receipt option.
• You can also check your acknowledgement number (post login) for a filed ITR on the e-Filing portal using the View Filed Forms service.

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Check your Income Tax Refund Status Through Tax2win

You can also check your income tax refund status through Tax2win’s refund status tool. Here are the simple steps you need to follow to check your refund status through Tax2win -

• Step 1. Simply Enter Your PAN number
• Step 2. Enter the Assessment Year for which you want to check your refund status.
• Step 3. Enter your email ID click “check refund status”.
• Step 4. Enter your acknowledgement number and mobile number.
• Step 5. Click “check refund status”.

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