ITR-V - Do's and Dont's for printing and submitting to ITD-CPC Bangalore

Friends,

After filing your Income Tax Return ONLINE and on successful submission of the same one have to send the ITR-V Form generated by the system to the Income Tax Department by Ordinary Post to CPC- Bangalore address which has been mentioned here at the last of this post . After sending the ITR-V Acknowledgement Form to the Income Tax Department, you will get a SMS regarding the status of your return. The SMS will be send on your mobile number which you have used while filing your Income Tax Return. SMS looks like as " ITR V of PAN ABCxxxxx4D for Assessment Year 2012-13 has been received and accepted." 

Here are some Do's and Dont's regarding ITR-V which should be carefully followed by everyone. 

• Please use Ink Jet /Laser printer to print the ITR-V Form.
• Avoid printing on Dot Matrix printer.
• The ITR-V Form should be printed only in black ink.
• Do not use any other ink option to print ITR V.
• Ensure that print out is clear and not light print/faded copy.
• Please do not print any water marks on ITR-V. The only permissible watermark is that of "Income tax Department" which is printed automatically on each ITR-V.
• The document that is mailed to CPC should be signed in original in BLUE INK.
• Photocopy of signatures will not be accepted.
• The signatures or any handwritten text should not be written on Bar code.
• Bar code and numbers below barcode should be clearly visible.
• Only A4 size white paper should be used.
• Avoid typing anything at the back of the paper.
• Perforated paper or any other size paper should be avoided.
• Do not use stapler on ITR V acknowledgement.
• In case you are submitting original and revised returns, do not print them back to back. Use two separate papers for printing ITR-Vs separately.
• More than one ITR-V can be sent in the same envelope.
• Please do not submit any annexures, covering letter, pre stamped envelopes etc. along with ITR-V.
• The ITR-V form is required to be sent to Post Bag No.1, Electronic City Post Office, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560100, by ordinary post or speed post.
• ITR-Vs that do not conform to the above specifications may get rejected or acknowledgement of receipt may get delayed.

If you have lost your ITR-V Acknowledgement Form the same can be downloaded from the official site of the Income Tax Department using your credentials i.e. Login ID and Password under the Head My Account - My Returns/Download ITR-V Ack Tab. Please note that you will receive your ITRV/ITR ACK PDF file in a zip format. Please note that the ITRV/ITR ACK PDF document is password protected to ensure it is accessed by the appropriate user. The password is a combination of the pan(in lower case) and the date of birth in the format ddmmyyyy. For example, 1) if the pan is AAAAA0000A and the date of birth is 10-Jan-2008, then the password will be aaaaa0000a10012008 Please note that you will need Adobe Acrobat reader 8.0 or forward to open the password protected PDF file. If you have not got SMS regarding your Return the same can be checked on the i Main site under Service Tab as ITR-V Receipt Status by just entering your PAN, Assessment Year and the Code generated by the site automatically and submitting the same.