ITR Filing 2025: This year many taxpayers are getting income tax refund within a few hours of filing ITR online. Whereas a decade ago it used to take about 90 days to get the refund. In such a situation, the system has improved a lot compared to earlier. After all, how did this big change happen? Let’s know the full details
ITR Filing 2025: The process of filing Income Tax Return (ITR) for the financial year 2024-25 (FY 2024-25) has started. This time the last date is 15 September 2025. At the same time, ITR-2 and ITR-3 forms have also been activated on the Income Tax website, due to which the number of ITR filers is increasing rapidly. The faster the number of income tax filers is coming, the faster the refund is also being issued. This time the Income Tax Department is sending refunds to the people faster. There was a time when one had to wait for a long time for refund after filing the return. Earlier it used to take 90 days or more for the refund to come, while in the assessment year 2025-26, some taxpayers got their refund in their bank account within just 4 hours of filing the return.
Till about 12–13 years ago, the same refund used to take more than 3 months to come. Now it is not so. Refund has started coming within a few hours as soon as the return is filed. At present, due to fast digital processing, this time has come down to hours.
Refund received in a few hours, taxpayers shared the experience
According to the news published in Financial Express, Arun Prakash, a media professional from Noida, told that the refund was received within 4 hours of filing ITR on the e-filing portal of Income Tax. He further told that the return was filed using ITR Form-1 at 05.03 pm. Exactly 4 hours later, at 09.02 pm, the refund amount was credited to the bank account. In this case, tax experts say that earlier it used to take an average of 30 to 40 days for the Income Tax Department to send the refund, but this time some taxpayers got the refund on the same day they filed ITR.
How can you fill income tax return?
1 – First of all you have to go to the income tax website incometax.gov.in.
2 – If you are already tax registered, then you have to enter your PAN and login.
3 – After this, click on ‘File Income Tax Return’ inside the e-file tab and then select the assessment year.
4 – Then select your category like Individual, HUF and others and then choose (ITR-1,2,3,4).
5 – Now fill in all the information and follow the process.
6 – When the form is completely filled, do not forget to E-Verify your ITR at the end.
7 – If you do not verify within 30 days of filling the ITR, you will not get a refund.
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