File Revised Returns in 7 easy steps

If you have filed an incomplete ITR or made some errors while filing Income Tax Returns, then you will have to file your revised returns with the required correction, if you have made any error unintentionally.

File Revised Returns in 7 easy steps

You must be thinking how you can file your revised Income Tax Returns, well you can do that in 7 simple steps and they are: –

• Firstly, you will have to go to the official e-filing website of the Income Tax Department.
• Choose the relevant assessment year and Form from the dashboard, in order to file the ITR of the year you wish to file.
• You will have to open the excel sheet, that consist of your original ITR and then you will have to go to the file revised return option. You will have to choose section 139(5) from the drop-down menu.
• Then you will be asked to submit your ITR Acknowledgement number along with your previous date of filing your ITR in the revised form.
• Make all the required changes and file your revised returns with all the necessary corrections.
• Once you are done filing your revised return, you just need to generate the XML of the it and upload the same.
• Last but not the least, you will have to download your revised ITR-V and send it CPC Bangalore, with 120 days of filing returns, either manually or electronically.

Steps to File Revised Returns

Things to keep in mind before you file a revised return                  

• If you have already filed your Income Tax Returns and after filing if you find some errors, then in that case filing a revised return will be a good idea.
• You must fulfil certain prerequisites, if you wish to file revised returns.
• If you want to file revised returns, then you must make sure that you have filed your original return before the due date.
• You can file revised returns within an expiry date of one year from the assessment year you filed your original return.

Steps to File Revised Returns

So, if you think you have made some mistakes in filing returns, its time to file revised returns.