ITR-1 and ITR-4 Utility Released by CBDT

Taxpayers should be happy to note that Income Tax Return Forms [ITR Forms] 1 and 4 have been made available by CBDT.

All the Income Tax Return Forms [ITR Forms] have been notified by CBDT.

Taxpayers who are eligible to file Income Tax Return Forms [ITR Forms] 1 and 4 and do not have TDS Deduction can file their Returns.

Some of the important features:

• Excel & Java version of ITR utilities will be discontinued from AY 2021-22.
• Import of Prefill file is mandatory in utility.

The utility for other ITRs will be enabled shortly, the ITR1 to 4 can be filled using a single JSON Utility.

Instruction for use of offline utilities:

1. Select the Assessment Year

2. Download either excel or Java or JSON utility. The utility by default will get downloaded in your system ‘download’ folder in a compressed mode (ZIP file)

3. Extract (un-compress) the zip file containing the utilities. The folder will be extracted in the same location where the compressed utility was downloaded. Open the utility and start filling.

System Requirements

JSON Utilities:

OS – Windows 7 or later are supported, Processor – Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that’s SSE2 capable or AMD K10 or above core architecture, RAM – 1.5GB of RAM or more, HDD – 500MB or more of free space

Excel Utilities:

Macro enabled MS-Office Excel version 2010/2013/2016 on Microsoft Windows 7 / 8 /10 with .Net Framework (3.5 & above)

Java Utilities:

Microsoft Windows 7/8/10, Linux and Mac OS 10.x with JRE (Java Runtime Environment) Version 8 with latest updates.