How To Check Income Tax Return Status Online?

Once you have filed your income tax return, the next step is to check status of your filing. Keeping track of your ITR filing will help you to know whether your Income Tax Return is successfully processed by the income tax department or not and it any further step is required from your part. Along with this, it is necessary to check your income tax refund status as well if any. Meanwhile, the income tax filing season has already ended, it is therefore, essential to check each and every keypoint of ITR filing.

If you want to check your ITR status online, then by following these steps you can easily track the ITR status of e-filed ITR online-

Step 1-The taxpayers who have applied for ITR filing for the financial year 2018-19 can check the status throughincome tax e-filing website- incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in,by clicking on the ITR status option, one can easily check the status of their income tax return.

Step 2: The next step is to submit the details of PAN, ITR acknowledgment number which you have received from the income tax department and the captcha code on the new page that opens and hit the Submit button.

After you fill out your details and submit, the status will be displayed on your screen.

On the other hand, if you have registered on the government's e-filing portal, you can directly login and click on the view returns that will be given on the dashboard. Click the Income Tax Returns on the drop menu and you will see your full history of ITRs filed and their respective status.

Apparently, you can also check the status of your income tax refunds, if the intimation is not received from the Income Tax department or you have missed the email or SMS.

Here’s the ways to track your tax refund-

Taxpayers can track income tax refund status through income tax e-filing website

Step 1: Visit the income tax e-filing website.

Step 2: Click on the e-filing Portal login showing on the right side of the homepage.

Step 3: Log in to your account through your PAN, e-filing password and enter the captcha code.

Step 4:Last step is to click on ‘View returns/forms’ appearing on the screen.