New Income Tax Department E-Filing Website- Registration and Login Process

One needs to follow the following steps to get registered on income tax efiling website:

• Step 1: Visit the Income Tax Login Page
• Step 2: Click on the “Register Yourself” button appearing on the top right hand corner of the page.
• Step 3: Select the type of user you are such as individual, partnership, company, trust, etc and fill in other basic details as required such as PAN, name, DOB, etc.
• Step 4: After submitting the above details, you will receive an email for verification of your email address. After completing the verification process, fill and submit certain details such as password, personal details, etc.
• Step 5: A message “Registration successful”, an email along with an activation link and a SMS with OTP.
• Step 6: Click on the activation link enter the OTP received to activate your account. Once these steps have been followed successfully, your account will be ready for income tax e-filing.

The process of getting PAN registered on an income tax website is the same as getting online registration done on an income tax website. So, you may refer to the FAQ given above.

Whether you are a taxpayer in India or not depends on your residential status determined as per the provisions of the Income tax Act. An individual can either be :

A) Resident and ordinarily resident (ROR)

B) Resident and not ordinarily resident (RNOR),

C) Non resident. While almost the entire income from various sources of a ROR is taxable in India, the scope of taxability of income of RNOR is lower and for a non resident it ia the lowest.

PAN number is user id always. If you forget your password you can recover it easily by clicking forgot password. You will have to validate yourself through your registered email id. You can reset it from incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.

The e filing website password is used with the user id (which is the PAN of the taxpayer) to login to the income tax e filing site.

There are seven types of ITR forms which have been notified by the income tax department for filing income tax return. They are ITR 1, ITR 2, ITR 3, ITR 4, ITR 5, ITR 6 & ITR 7. Each form applies to a particular class of taxpayers and is to be filled by them. For example, ITR 1 is filed by individual taxpayers who have earnings from salary or other source and have one house. For more details on which ITR form to use when, please visit https://tax2win.in/guide/itr-forms

An individual while registering on income tax efiling portal shall keep the following details handy:

• PAN card details
• Mobile No
• Address Details
• Aadhar
• E mail ID