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 received 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 only a limited taxpayers to file their ITR with the specified income classification.

How can you download?

Giving information about this on the social media platform X, the Income Tax Department wrote, "Attention taxpayers! Excel utilities of 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 profit and loss income from business or profession as well as income 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., are also covered under ITR-2.

September 15 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.