How to e-verify your income tax return using your Netbanking account?

• Your return is successfully e-filed when you have received an acknowledgement number from the income tax department.
• You’ll also receive an email from ClearTax confirming that your return has been successfully submitted.

Now comes the very important step of VERIFYING your tax return.

ClearTax recommends NET BANKING as the easiest and fastest way to verify your returns.

{Note: If you successfully e-verify your return, you don’t have to send the ITR-V to CPC, Bengaluru.

However, if you do not want to e-verify, you will have to send the physical ITR-V.

STEPS to SEND ITR-V are here.}

Follow the steps here to verify your return using your Netbanking account:

Step 1.

Login to your Netbanking account and locate the income tax e-filing tab. This differs from bank to bank. You will be redirected straight to the Department website from here.

Step 2.

Select the “View Returns/ Forms” option to see e-filed tax returns.

Step 3.

Select the option “Click here to view your returns pending for e-verification”

Step 4.

Select the option “e-verify”.

Step 5.

A new pop-up window appears. Click on “Continue” to generate EVC and get your income tax return verified.

Step 6.

A confirmation message will be displayed with a transaction ID and EVC code. Click on the green button to download the attachment. This is for your record only. No further action is required.

If you have successfully e-verified you don’t have to submit the physical ITR-V to CPC, Bengaluru.