Income Tax E-Filing
An income tax return must be filed online at incometax.gov.in and then e-verified — via Aadhaar OTP, net banking, or a Digital Signature Certificate — within 30 days, or it's treated as never filed. Khata World reconciles your income against AIS/Form 168 (26AS), picks the correct ITR form, and files and e-verifies for you the same day.
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Every income tax return in India is filed electronically on the Income Tax Department's e-filing portal. The technology isn't the hard part — choosing the correct ITR form for your income sources, reconciling it against what the department already knows from your AIS and Form 168 (formerly Form 26AS, renamed under the Income Tax Act 2025), and e-verifying it within the deadline is.
We handle all of it. If your income is only salary, we file it under our dedicated ITR Filing service. This page covers e-filing more broadly — including business, partnership, company and trust returns, each of which has its own page linked below.
- Correct ITR form selection
- AIS & Form 168 (26AS) reconciliation
- Filing and same-day e-verification
- Acknowledgement (ITR-V) shared with you
Charges depend on your income sources and the applicable ITR form — ask us for an exact quote.
What We Handle
The Parts of E-Filing That Actually Cause Problems
Submitting a return takes minutes. Getting it right the first time is where the work is.
AIS & Form 168 (26AS) Reconciliation
We match every entry in your Annual Information Statement and Form 168 — formerly Form 26AS, renamed under the Income Tax Act 2025 — against your own records before filing, so nothing you already paid tax on gets missed or double-counted.
The Correct Form, Every Time
Filing the wrong ITR form makes your return defective under Section 139(9). We determine the right form from your actual income sources first.
Pre-Submission Review
A second set of expert eyes checks your draft return before it goes to the department — the single biggest reason returns get flagged is a mismatch nobody caught.
On Time, Every Year
We track your filing deadline and reach out before it arrives, instead of you having to remember it every July.
Which Form Applies to You
Seven Forms, One Correct Answer for Your Situation
Filing the wrong form makes your return defective under Section 139(9) — this is decided by your income sources, not your preference.
| Form | Who it's for |
|---|---|
| ITR-1 (Sahaj) | Salaried individuals, one house property, other income under ₹50 lakh |
| ITR-2 | Individuals/HUFs with capital gains or more than one house property, no business income |
| ITR-3 | Individuals/HUFs with income from a business or profession |
| ITR-4 (Sugam) | Presumptive income under Sections 44AD, 44ADA or 44AE |
| ITR-5 | Partnership firms and LLPs |
| ITR-6 | Companies, other than those claiming exemption under Section 11 |
| ITR-7 | Trusts, political parties, charitable and religious institutions |
A simplified guide, not exhaustive — thresholds and eligibility conditions change with each year's Finance Act. We confirm the applicable form for your specific situation before filing.
The Process
Four Steps From Documents to Acknowledgement
Share Your Documents
Form-16, bank statements, investment proofs and any other income details — over WhatsApp or email.
We Reconcile & Prepare
Your figures are checked against AIS/Form 168 (26AS) and the correct ITR form is prepared.
You Review the Draft
We walk you through the computation before anything is submitted.
We File & E-Verify
The return is e-filed on the income tax portal and e-verified the same day.
E-Filing Deadlines & Rules at a Glance
Key figures every filer should know — sourced from incometax.gov.in and CBDT Notification No. 2/2024, current as of 25 August 2026. Processing and verification rules change by CBDT notification; verify against incometax.gov.in before relying on these for a specific filing.
- E-verification deadline
- 30 days from the date of filing (uploading) the return — CBDT Notification No. 2/2024, effective 1 April 2024. Verify after 30 days and the verification date, not the upload date, becomes your date of filing, with late-filing consequences following.
- If never e-verified
- An unverified return is treated as if it was never filed — invalid, not merely late. A condonation request can be filed for a genuine delay, but approval isn't automatic.
- E-verification methods
- Aadhaar OTP, net banking, a bank or demat account EVC, or a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC — mandatory for company returns and audit cases). A signed physical ITR-V can also be posted to the CPC in Bengaluru.
- Section 143(1) intimation window
- Sent within 9 months from the end of the financial year in which the return is filed. No intimation within that window means the return is accepted as filed, with no adjustment.
- Defective return correction window (Sec. 139(9))
- 15 days from the date of the defect notice, or the period specified in it, to correct and refile — otherwise the return is treated as if it was never filed.
- Wrong ITR form filed
- Filing income under the wrong ITR form makes the return "defective" under Section 139(9), triggering the 15-day correction window above.
Last updated: 25 August 2026
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