You won’t get any income tax refund unless you verify your ITR; Here’s how you can do it online and offline using ITR-V

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

income tax return (ITR) within 30 days of filing it, or all the time and resources you invested in filing it will be wasted. Verification of the ITR is the last step of the tax return filing process and is a mandatory requirement for processing of the filed ITR. The filed ITR will not even be considered for processing by the tax department unless you verify it using the prescribed methods.
«If you do not verify in time, your return is treated as not filed and it will attract all the consequences of not filing ITR under the Income Tax Act, 1961,» said the tax department on its website.

Needless to say, if your filed ITR is not processed, you will not get income tax refund (if any) and it will be assumed that you have not filed your ITR. The deadline to file ITR for those not liable for an income tax audit is July 31, 2024, for FY 2023-24 (AY 2024-25).

There are a few ways of verifying one's ITR including an offline method.

What are the ways you can verify your income tax return online

According to the income tax department website as of July 5, 2024, you can verify your ITR using any of the following methods:

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• OTP on mobile number registered with Aadhaar, or
• EVC generated through your pre-validated bank account, or
• EVC generated through your pre-validated demat account, or
• EVC through ATM (offline method), or
• Net Banking, or
• Digital Signature Certificate (DSC).

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