Quick Summary
The Income Tax Department has released the Excel-based utility for ITR-5 for Assessment Year (AY) 2026-27, enabling eligible taxpayers to begin preparing and filing their income tax returns for Financial Year 2025-26. The utility was made available on July 7, 2026, through the Income Tax e-Filing portal.
ITR-5 is applicable to taxpayers other than individuals, Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs), companies and persons required to file returns using ITR-7. The form is generally used by entities such as partnership firms, LLPs, Associations of Persons (AOPs), Bodies of Individuals (BOIs) and certain other non-corporate taxpayers.
Utility Excel Based (Version 1.0) (14.1 MB)
- Date of release of latest version of utility: 07-Jul-2026
- Date of release of first version of utility: 07-Jul-2026
Schema (0.97 MB)
- Date of first release of JSON Schema: 07-Jul-2026
- Date of latest release of JSON Schema: 07-Jul-2026
Validations (1.29 MB)
- Date of first release of validation: 07-Jul-2026
- Date of latest release of validation: 07-Jul-2026
FAQ :
The ITR-5 Excel utility for AY 2026-27 was released on July 7, 2026.
The ITR-5 utility can be downloaded from the Income Tax e-Filing portal.
ITR-5 is for taxpayers other than individuals, HUFs, companies, and those required to file using ITR-7. It is generally used by entities like partnership firms, LLPs, AOPs, BOIs, and other non-corporate taxpayers.
This utility is for preparing income tax returns for the Financial Year 2025-26.
The version of the Excel utility released is Version 1.0.
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