ITR filing 2026-27: With the start of the new financial year from April 1, the government has also released all ITR forms for the Assessment Year (AY) 2026-27. With this, the upcoming filing season has started. In this sequence, taxpayers can start filing returns from this month.

Here the Income Tax Department has already notified forms like ITR-1 (Sahaj), ITR-2, ITR-4 (Sugam) and ITR-6. Now after some time, utilities (first offline and then online) will be started, with the help of which taxpayers can file returns. Now that ITR forms have been notified, utilities will also be started soon.

According to a News18 report, an income tax practitioner, on the condition of anonymity, said, “Generally, ITR filing starts in the month of April. Last year, it was delayed due to major changes in income tax rules—including LTCG, STCG and indexation. Since this time the Income Tax Department has already notified the tax return forms, it is expected that ITR filing will start this month. However, salaried individuals should wait for their Form 16 before filing ITR for AY2026-27.

keep this in mind

It is important to note here that even though the Income Tax Act, 2025, has come into force from April 1, which has replaced the Act of 1961, but since you are paying tax on the income for the financial year 2025-26, only the rules in effect that year will apply. That means only Income Tax Act, 1961 will guide this return. The new 2025 Act will be applicable to income that will be earned after April 1, 2026. Taxpayers will still see terms like ‘Previous Year’ and ‘Assessment Year’, which have been part of the system for decades; These words will be used in place of the proposed new ‘Tax Year’. Let us tell you that this year the ITR deadline will remain only 31st July.

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