How To E-Verify Your Income Tax Return In New Income Tax Portal?

With the latest e-verification techniques, you will no longer need to download, sign, and mail the acknowledgment to CPC Bengaluru, making it more convenient and easier to fit into our hectic schedules.

It's just as important to double-check your ITR as it is to file it. Your ITR will go unnoticed if it isn't properly verified. The income tax department has made it easier for us to pay our taxes and have them validated with different methods of e-verification.
The deadline for reporting ITRs for taxpayers who are not subject to audit has been extended from September 30 to December 31.

An Electronic Verification Code (EVC) is a 10-digit alpha-numeric code issued to your mobile number and email address registered with the e-Filing portal, bank account or Demat account. It is valid for 72 hours from the time it was generated.

How to e-verify Income tax using Net Banking?

Step 1: On the e-Verify page, click Continue after selecting Through Net Banking.
Step 2: Click Continue after selecting the bank through which you want to e-Verify.
Step 3: Read the disclaimer and make sure you understand it. Click Continue.
Note: You will then be sent to the Net Banking login page for your bank account.
Step 4: Enter your Net Banking user ID and password to access your account.
Step 5: From your bank's website, click the link to log in to e-Filing.
Step 6: After successfully logging in, you will be sent to the e-Filing Dashboard. On the appropriate ITR / Form / Service, click e-Verify. Your ITR / Form / Service will be e-Verified successfully.
A success message and a Transaction ID are displayed on a page. Please keep the Transaction ID on hand in case you need it again. You will also receive a confirmation message to the email address and phone number you supplied on the e-Filing portal.

How to e-verify income tax using Demat Account?

How to e-Verify Income tax using Demat Account?
Step 1: Log in to your e-filing account with login details
Step 2: Select the 'Profile Setting' button and then the option to 'Pre-validate Your Demat Account.'
Step 3: Fill up the following information: DP ID, Client ID, Depository Type (NSDL/CDSL), Mobile Number, and Email Address.
Step 4: Select the 'Pre-validate' option from the drop-down menu.
Step 5: If you choose yes, the EVC will be sent to your registered phone number.
Verify your returns using the EVC you received.

How to e-Verify tax return after login?

Step 1: Enter your user ID and password to access the e-Filing portal.
Step 2: Select e-File > Income Tax Return > e-Verify Return from the drop-down menu.
Step 3: On the e-Verify Return screen, choose the unconfirmed return and click e-Verify.
Step 4: Click Ok if you're e-Verifying the return after it's been 120 days since you filed it.
Step 5: Select the Reason for Delay from the selection and click Continue to submit a condonation delay request.
Step 6: Select the e-verification mode.

How to e-verify using Digital Signature Certificate ?

You will not be able to e-Verify your ITR using a Digital Signature Certificate if you choose the e-Verify Later option while filing your Income Tax Return. You can use DSC as an e-Verification option if you want to e-Verify your ITR right after filing.

Step 1: Select I'd want to e-Verify utilizing a Digital Signature Certificate on the e-Verify page (DSC).
Step 2: Select Click here to download emsigner application from the Verify Your Identity page.
Step 3: On the Verify Your Identity page, select I have downloaded and installed emsigner utility and click Continue when the download and installation of emsigner utility is complete.

A page featuring a success message and a Transaction ID is displayed. Please keep the Transaction ID on hand for future use. A confirmation message will also be sent to the email address and mobile number you provided on the e-Filing portal.

How to e-verify after generating Aadhaar OTP?

Step 1: On the e-Verify page, select I'd like to verify using an OTP on an Aadhaar-linked mobile number and click Continue.

Step 2: Select the I agree to validate my Aadhaar Details checkbox on the Aadhaar OTP screen and click Generate Aadhaar OTP.
Step 3: Click Validate after entering the 6-digit OTP sent to your Aadhaar-registered mobile number.

Note:

• The OTP will only be valid for 15 minutes.
• You have three chances to type in the correct OTP.
• The screen's OTP expiry countdown timer indicates when the OTP will expire.
• A new OTP will be generated and sent when you click Resend OTP.
• A confirmation message will also be sent to the email address and mobile number you provided on the e-Filing portal.

How to e-Verify using existing Aadhaar OTP?

Step 1: On the e-Verify page, select I already have an OTP on Mobile number registered with Aadhaar.
  Step 2: Enter the 6-digit OTP available with you and click Continue.
A confirmation message will also be sent to the email address and mobile number you provided on the e-Filing portal.

How to Generate Electronic Verification Code (EVC) through Bank ATM?

Step 1: Go to an ATM at your bank and swipe your ATM card.
Note that only a few banks offer the service of generating EVC via a bank ATM.
Step 2: Enter your PIN.
Step 3: Select Generate EVC for Income Tax Filing from the drop-down menu.
An EVC will be delivered to the mobile number and email address you provided when you enrolled for the e-Filing portal.

Note: Your PAN must be linked to your bank account, and the same PAN must be registered with the e-Filing portal.

Step 4: Select I already have an Electronic Verification Code (EVC) as a preferred e-Verification option to use the produced EVC to e-Verify the return.

Delay in e-verification attract any penalty?

If you do not verify your return in a timely manner, it will be deemed as unfiled, and you will be subject to all of the penalties imposed by the Income Tax Act of 1961 for not filing an ITR. You may, however, ask for a delay in verification to be excused provided you provide sufficient justification. You'll be able to e-Verify your return only when you've submitted such a request. The return, on the other hand, will only be considered genuine once the condonation request has been authorised by the appropriate tax authority.