Filing your ITR electronically at income tax website

The format for submitting your income taxes thru the income tax website has changed slightly this year. last two year you submittied your ITR(ITR-1 usually) forms online and the website generated ITR-V forms of which you needed to take a print out and go to their offices to get it stamped, now the changes are as follows( data from the income tax website https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in):

on successful uploading of e-Return, the ITR-V Form would be generated which needs to be printed by the tax payers. This is an acknowledgement cum verification form. The tax payer has to fill-up the verification part and verify the same. A duly verified ITR-V form should be mailed to “Income Tax Department – CPC, Post Bag No - 1, Electronic City Post Office, Bangalore - 560100, Karnataka, ” BY ORDINARY POST ONLY within 30 days after the date of transmitting the data electronically.

ITR-V sent by Speedpost, Registered Post or Courier will not be accepted.

No Form ITR-V shall be received in any other office of the Income-tax Department or in any other manner. In case, Form ITR-V, is furnished after the above mentioned period, it will be deemed that the return in respect of which the Form ITR-V has been filed was never furnished and it shall be incumbent on the assessee to electronically re-transmit the data and follow it up by submitting the new Form ITR-V within thirty days. This completes the Return filing process for non-digitally signed Returns.