CBDT notifies format of ITR-V and Income Tax Return Acknowledgement for AY 2025-26

CBDT notifies format of ITR-V and Income Tax Return Acknowledgement for AY 2025-26

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
(CENTRAL BOARD OF DIRECT TAXES)

Notification No. 45/2025

New Delhi, the 7th May, 2025

G.S.R. 294(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by section 139 read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend Incometax Rules, 1962, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (Seventeenth Amendment) Rules, 2025.

(2) They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2025-

2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in Appendix II,–– (a) for FORM ITR-V, the following FORM shall be substituted, namely: –

Form ITR V

Indian Income Tax Return Verification Form [Where the data of the Return of Income in Form ITR-1 (SAHAJ), ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4(SUGAM), ITR-5, ITR-7 filed but NOT verified electronically]
(Please see rule 12 of the Income-tax Rules, 1962)

Instructions:

1. Please e- verify the electronically transmitted return data using Aadhaar OTP or Login to e-Filing account through Net-Banking login or EVC generated using Pre-Validated Bank Account/ Demat Account or EVC generated through Bank ATM. Alternately, you may send the duly signed (preferably in blue ink) Form ITR-V to “Centralized Processing Centre, Income Tax Department, Bengaluru 560500”, by SPEED POST ONLY.

2. Form ITR-V shall not be received in any other office of the Income-tax Department or in any other manner. The confirmation of receipt of this Form ITR-V at ITD-CPC will be sent to the e-mail Id registered in the e-filing account.

3. On successful verification, the return filing acknowledgement can be downloaded from e-Filing portal as a proof of completion of process of filing the return of Income.

4. Please sign only in the box provided for signature. Signature anywhere else other than the box provided can render the ITR-V invalid.

5. Where ITR data is electronically transmitted and ITR-V is submitted within 30 days of transmission of data – in such cases the date of transmitting the data electronically shall be considered as the date of furnishing the return of income.

6. Where ITR data is electronically transmitted but ITR-V is submitted beyond the time-limit of 30 days of transmission of data – in such cases the date of ITR-V submission shall be treated as the date of furnishing the return of income and all consequences of late filing of return under the Act shall follow.

(b) for FORM ITR- Ack, the following FORM shall, be substituted, namely: –

Indian Income Tax Return Acknowledgement
[Where the data of the Return of Income in Form ITR-1 (SAHAJ), ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4(SUGAM), ITR-5, ITR-6, ITR-7 filed and verified] (Please see rule 12 of the Income-tax Rules, 1962)

[F. No. 370142/21/2025-TPL]

SURBENDU THAKUR, Under Secy.,
Tax Policy and Legislation

Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section(ii) vide number S.O. 969(E), dated the 26th March, 1962 and was last amended vide notification GSR 290(E), dated the 06 May, 2025.

Explanatory Memorandum- It is hereby certified that no person shall be adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to these rules.

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