How to file ITR-5 – ITR Form-5 (ITR 5) must be submitted by companies such as Businesses, LLPs (Limited Liability Partnerships), AOPs (Personal Association), Artificial Judicial Individual and BOIs (Body of Individuals). In addition, any cooperative society or municipal government can submit an income tax return utilizing the ITR-5 form.

Taxpayers who are qualified to submit an ITR-3 form may submit a duly completed form directly to the Income Tax Department’s e-filing portal. You can register and validate ITR remotely via digital signatures. Or else, you can validate the ITR by ITR-7 or by using the Electronic Verification Code (EVC) or the aadhaar/bank account.

It must be remembered that perhaps the accounts which have been subject to audit as per section 44AB of the Income Tax Act, 1961 are required to file an ITR digitally utilizing digital signatures. In addition, ITR-5 is a free form of annexure. You shouldn’t need to bind any papers to it. That being said, in order to file an ITR, you have to be enrolled with the e-filing portal.

How to download ITR-5 Form

You can conveniently obtain the ITR-5 form for free from the Income Tax Department’s official website or by clicking this link. 

If you want to download ITR-5 from the official website please follow these steps.

  • First, visit the official income tax portal
How to file ITR-5
  • After that navigate to the download section as highlighted in the above image.
  • Select “ITR notified Forms AY 2020-21”
  • Now you will see the screen as shown in the image below
  • Select ITR 5 and save it.

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