If you file an income tax return with the old regime, then know this new rule of 2025

If you are claiming interest on an education loan under section 80E, then you should have its details with the Income Tax Department, so that it can be verified from there.

ITR Rules: If you are on the list of salaried persons and want to file an income tax return, then there are some important things, which are important for you to know. Now just filling Form 16 will not be considered sufficient, but some more evidence will be demanded from you by the Income Tax Department. That is, earlier when your income came only from salary, you used to use ITR-1 Form 16 only to file the return.

For this, you had to give LIC, mutual funds to health insurance as income tax saving documents to your employer company. Form 16 itself had the details of all these things, and it was sufficient in itself. Apart from this, no other documents had to be uploaded.

Emphasis on transparency

But experts say that the Income Tax Department is now focusing more on transparency so that fake claims can be prevented. Therefore, whenever you file returns, you will have to keep some records with you.

If you are claiming interest on education loan under section 80E, then you should have its details with the Income Tax Department so that it can be verified from there. Apart from this, when you are claiming for a disabled person dependent on you under section 80DD or 80U, then Form 10-IA, PAN or Aadhaar of the dependent and if possible his UDID will have to be given.

Along with this, taxpayers will have to provide proof to make deduction of section 80C, 80D and HRA, which was not mandatory last year. That is, now according to the new Income Tax rules, now comprehensive records will have to be given, in which taxpayers will have a big responsibility to consolidate and maintain all kinds of records before filing income tax.