Income Tax Department Releases ITR-6 Excel Utility for Assessment Year 2026–27; Excel-based return-filing utility, JSON Schema and Validation Rules made available on the Income Tax e-Filing Portal

The Income Tax Department has released the Excel-based utility for Income Tax Return Form ITR-6 for Assessment Year 2026–27. The utility is now available for download and use on the official Income Tax e-Filing Portal.

ITR-6 is applicable to companies other than those claiming exemption under Section 11 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. Eligible corporate taxpayers may use the newly released utility for preparing and filing their income-tax returns for the relevant assessment year.

ITR 6

For Companies other than companies claiming exemption under section 11

Document: Utility Excel Based (Version 1.0) (14.4 MB)

Date of release of first version of utility 04-Aug-2026

Document: Schema (1.2 MB)

Date of first release of JSON Schema 04-Aug-2026

Document: Validations (1.2 MB)

Date of first release of validation

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