Filing 15CB certificate on new Income Tax portal

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Milind M. Kulkarni

Practicing CA

446 Points Posted on 01 July 2021

There seem to be a lot pf problems in assigning form 15CB from assessee to his selected CA in new Income Tax portal due to which, CA's cannot file/ upload X M L of 15CB prepared by him to the new Income Tax portal. Also, it is not clear whether X M L generated from utility downloaded from old Income Tax portal will be accepted on the new portal after the same gets activated.

I request others to share their experiences and if they have any news/ updates on submission of form 15CB, kindly share the same here. Non facilitation of 15CB is causing a lot of hardship to everyone - assessees as well as CA's.

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Users are experiencing significant difficulties assigning Form 15CB to Chartered Accountants on the new Income Tax portal, hindering the filing process. There are also concerns about the compatibility of XML files generated from the old portal's utility with the new system. This is causing considerable hardship for both assessees and CAs. While the new portal is expected to accept updated XML schemas, using the old utility might lead to rejection due to format mismatches. An Excel-based utility is available to generate compliant XML files for Form 15CA & 15CB.

Tide

Taxpayer

54 Points Posted on 05 July 2021

Hello. Did you manage to file 15CB?

Milind M. Kulkarni

Practicing CA

446 Points Posted on 20 July 2021

Not till date. Have asked the assessee to check with his bank if they are accepting manual form 15CB, but there is no update on this. Meanwhile, any update on this from anyone else?

Roodita Gaikwad

Practice

627 Points Posted on 22 April 2025

Yes, currently many users are facing issues with assigning Form 15CB to Chartered Accountants on the new Income Tax portal. This is primarily due to transition-level technical glitches or incomplete integration of DSC and authorization modules. Until the portal stabilizes, these issues may persist.

Regarding XML compatibility — the new Income Tax portal accepts XML files generated as per the latest schema. If your XML was created using the old utility, it may not be accepted if there are format mismatches or schema changes.

To avoid such issues, it is recommended to generate XML using an updated and portal-compatible utility that adheres to the current schema version.

Our Excel-based utility allows you to prepare and validate Form 15CA & 15CB XML files in bulk, as per the latest schema.