Excel Utility for ITR-1 ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4 and to ITR-5 available for e-filing for AY 2026-27

Income Tax Department has released Excel Utility for e-filing ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-3, ITR-4 and ITR-5for AY 2026-27 and Common Offline Utility for ITR-1 to 4

Excel utilities of ITR-1 and ITR-4 are now available at e-filing portal. Rest of the ITR Forms can be expected shortly. It may be recalled that in 2015, Delhi High Court held that there is no right is available to the assessees for 180 days for filing of ITR. However, the High Court directed the Govt. shall record the reasons for delay in notifying ITRs from next assessment year. 

The excel utilities of ITRs made available so far are as under:

• Merely ex-parte rectifying computation without amending assessment order not make it nullity- ITAT
• Once assessee discharges primary onus, it shifts to AO to bring evidence to contrary – ITAT
• Cost Inflation Index for FY/Tax Year 2026-27 notified by CBDT. See Up-to-date Table of CII
• Power of CIT(A) u/s 251(1)(a) to remand case can be exercised only in best judgment assessment
• ICAI (Global Networking) Guidelines, 2025 kept in abeyance