Exempt income treated as other source by IT in prefilled form

Respected Sir/Madam.

I have a PPF a/c and the interest earned on PPF is exempt income from Tax. I also have some other income apart from Bank sav & FD interest. This other income is not visible to IT. But want to declare it to be fair and honest.

Now in my prefilled JSON form, IT has put the PPF interest as Other income and wrongly added it to the taxable income.

I have removed it from there and added Exempt income schedule in my ITR2 form and shown it over there. I have then added my actual other income in Other field for tax computation.

I logged a grievance just in case mismatch query comes from IT dept.

Is there anything else to be done here. Thank you.

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A user encountered an issue where their PPF interest, an exempt income, was incorrectly classified as 'other income' in their pre-filled tax return. They successfully rectified this by moving it to the 'exempt income' schedule in their ITR-2 form and separately declaring their actual other income. The user also logged a grievance as a precautionary measure. The discussion also notes a positive trend of faster ITR processing times by the Income Tax department.

No. As of now it is complete.  

Good improvement in ITR processing by Income tax dept. Processed within one month of filing and received my refund the same day intimation was received.

Yes, average processing time for ITR 1 & 2 has reduced to 10 to 25 days.

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