Income Tax Return Preparation Software Excel Utility Usage Prompts

————————— Microsoft Excel ————————— This utility is for Assessment Year 2012-2013 ————————— OK   —————————   ————————— Microsoft Excel ————————— Green cells are for data entry CAUTION : DO NOT USE CTRL X OR CUT PASTE WHILE DATAENTRY. Red labels indicate compulsory fields ————————— OK   —————————     ————————— Microsoft Excel ————————— Please enable macros to be able to use the excel utility To enable your macros, please follow these steps (steps may change with Versions of Excel) Select Tools -> Macros -> Security and Select Low / Medium . Restart Excel If prompted to enable macros, select Yes and then […]

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Directorate of Income Tax: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on e-Filing

GENERAL QUESTIONS QUESTIONS RELATED TO FORMS QUESTIONS RELATED TO E-FILING PROCESS QUESTIONS RELATED TO DIGITAL SIGNATURE QUESTIONS RELATED TO CPC QUESTIONS RELATED TO REVISED RETURN & RECTIFICATION QUESTIONS RELATED TO ITR- V GENERAL QUESTIONS 1. What is e-Filing of Returns? 2. How is e-Filing different from the regular filing of returns? 3. What are the steps in brief to upload the tax returns on this website? 4. I have forgotten my password. What is to be done to retrieve it ? 5. What to do if there is an “INTERNAL ERROR” at the time of registration? 6. In case, taxpayer […]

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HOW TO ENABLE MACROS IN MICROSOFT EXCEL FOR RETURN PREPARATION UTILITY

It is necessary to ENABLE the execution of macros in Return-Preparation-Utility in order to enter, validate and generate an .XML file for upload. Follow these steps to ENABLE execution of macros depending on the version of [Microsoft Office Excel] being used to open the Return-Preparation-Utility : [Microsoft Office Excel 2003] Navigate through the following excel menu option to reduce the level of security in executing macros : Tools –> Macros –> Security –> Low OR Tools –> Macros –> Security –> Medium Save the excel-utility and re-open it.   [Microsoft Office Excel 2007] Navigate through the following excel menu options […]

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