Income Tax Return: Excel utility released for ITR-2 and ITR-3, you can download it from here..

The Income Tax Department on Friday released Excel utilities for ITR-2 and ITR-3 forms, which can be used by taxpayers to file ITR on income from Taxable Capital Gains, crypto income, and others. The IT department had earlier released only ITR-1 and ITR-4 forms (both online and Excel utility), which helped a limited number of taxpayers to file their ITR with specified income classification.

How can you download?

The Income Tax Department gave this information on the social media platform X and wrote, "Attention taxpayers! Excel utilities for ITR-2 and ITR-3 for Assessment Year 2025-26 are now live and available for filing." It further said, "In the download section of the e-filing ITR portal of the Income Tax Department, you can download ITR-2 and ITR-3 utilities. After downloading, you will get a Windows zip file from which the Excel file can be obtained."

These people can file ITR-2 from today.

According to the Income Tax Department website, from July 11, ITR-2 can be filed by individuals or HUFs who are not eligible to file ITR-1 (Sahaj). Apart from this, according to the department, individuals who do not have income of profit and loss from business or profession, as well as income of profit and loss from business or profession in the form of interest, salary, bonus, commission, or remuneration from a partnership firm, can also file ITR-2. Individuals whose income includes the income of any other person, such as spouse, minor child, etc., if the income to be added to it also comes under ITR-2.

15 September is the last date
The Income Tax Department on May 27 extended the last date for filing income tax returns for the financial year 2024-25 (assessment year 2025-26) from July 31, 2025, to September 15, 2025. The IT department had said that this extension is expected to alleviate the concerns raised by the stakeholders and provide sufficient time for compliance, thereby ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the return filing process.

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