How to Access Form 26AS from the New Income-tax Website?

The income-tax department has launched a new e-filing portal www.incometax.gov.in on 7th June 2021. The new e-filing portal is aimed at providing taxpayer convenience and a modern, seamless experience to taxpayers.

The new website has various interesting features such as all interactions and uploads, or pending actions will be displayed on a single dashboard for follow-up action by the taxpayer, free software is provided for filing of ITR-1 and ITR-4.

Further, the manner of downloading Form 26AS is also simplified under the new portal.

Form 26AS is a tax passbook that contains the following information:

1. Information relating to tax deducted at source;
2. Information relating to tax collected at source;
3. Information relating to Specified Financial Transactions (SFT);
4. Information relating to the payment of taxes;
5. Information relating to demand and refund;
6. Information relating to pending proceedings;
7. Information relating to completed proceedings; and
8. Information received from any officer, authority, or body performing any functions under any law or information received under an agreement referred under section 90 or section 90A or information received from any other person to the extent it may be deemed fit in the interest of the revenue.

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For downloading Form 26AS, a taxpayer needs to follow the following steps:

1. Log in to income tax new website incometax.gov.in;
2. Click on Login on the top right of the home page;
   
3. Go to the ‘e-file’ menu> click on Income tax returns> Select ‘View Form 26AS ‘
   
4. Read the disclaimer and click on the ‘Confirm’ button;
5. After confirming, you will be redirected to the TDS-CPC website;
6. At the TDS-CPC website, agree to the acceptance and usages of Form 16 / 16A generated from TRACES and click on ‘Proceed’;
7. Click on the ‘View Tax Credit (Form 26AS)’ option;
8. Select the relevant assessment year for which Form 26AS is required and Select ‘View Type’ (HTML or Text);
   
9. Click at ‘View/Download’; and
10. Your Form 26As will be displayed

If you want to download Form 26AS in PDF, click on Export as PDF and save the Form 26 AS for future use.