ITR Filing 2025: All the forms for filing income tax returns have been issued. If you want that after filing ITR, there should be no notice from the Income Tax Department and no refund money should be stuck, then definitely check two important documents Form 26AS and AIS. It contains complete information about the tax deducted on your salary or other income.
Taxpayers should know that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has released ITR forms 1 to 7 for filing Income Tax Return (ITR).
The last date for filing ITR for common taxpayers is 31 July 2025. After this deadline, a fine will have to be paid. Apart from this, you cannot avail the benefits of many types of tax deductions. In such a situation, file ITR before the last date. If you want that after filing income tax return, neither any notice nor refund money is stuck from the Income Tax Department, then definitely check two important documents. These two documents are Form 26AS and AIS (Annual Information Statement). Let’s know about 26AS and AIS.
What is Form 26AS
Form 26AS is a Tax Credit Statement. It contains complete information about the tax deducted on your salary or other income. Form 26AS contains information about TDS and TCS, advance tax, refund. It contains details of high value transactions of a person like purchase of a property or big mutual fund investment. If there is any mistake in it like missing TDS entry, then you can contact the person or organization who has deducted the tax and ask them to correct it. Form 26AS can be downloaded from the Income Tax Department website.
What is AIS?
The Income Tax Department introduced the Annual Information Statement (AIS) in the year 2019. The detailed version of Form 26AS is the Annual Information Statement. It contains all the information of the taxpayer. AIS includes many types of information including your salary, interest received from the bank, dividend income, rental income, large purchases like property, mutual fund transactions, foreign transactions, share trading, GST sales, large credit card expenses.
In this way, AIS collects and displays information like your income, investment and tax deduction at one place. With this, you can know which income details are available with the Income Tax Department. If you see something in it that is not correct, then you can go to the portal and give feedback on that entry and request for correction. In AIS, taxpayers also get the option to give feedback on every transaction. You can download AIS from the Income Tax Department website.
Why is it necessary to check 26AS and AIS before filing ITR?
When taxpayers visit the Income Tax Department’s website to file ITR, they see that many information related to their income is already auto-filled there. Actually, this information is taken from 26AS and AIS. Now you must be thinking that when all the information related to your income is already available on the Income Tax Department’s website, then why is it necessary to check 26AS and AIS before filing ITR.
We are giving you the answer to this question. Actually, 26AS and AIS give you a chance to double check before filing ITR. By looking at these two documents, you can know whether any important detail has been missed or whether any entry of tax deduction has been left out. If you file ITR without looking at 26AS and AIS form, then it is possible that due to wrong information, your tax refund may not come and you may get a notice from the Income Tax Department. In such a situation, before filing ITR, you should check that your income, tax deduction, bank interest etc. recorded in Form 26AS and AIS are recorded correctly.
Download Form 26AS like this:
1. First of all go to the income tax website https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/ link.
2. After this, log in to the e-filing account.
3. Then click on the View Form-26AS link in the My Account option.
4. After this, select the assessment year and click on View Time.
5. Then click on the download option and download the form.
How to download AIS
1. First of all go to the Income Tax Department website and log in to your e-filing account.
2. To log in, you will need your PAN or Aadhaar number and password.
3. After this, you can visit the AIS portal and see your statement.
4. Then you can download your AIS in PDF, JSON or CSV file format.
5. The Income Tax Department has also launched a free mobile app AIS for Taxpayers.
6. Through this app, you can view AIS on your mobile phone itself.
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