India Audit Lens
Use the available ITR filing route and record evidence
ITR is a live module. For each supported return, the workspace shows the exact action available: direct submission when that operation is available, or a server-reviewed published-schema JSON and official portal…
By India Audit Lens product team · Updated 2026-08-03
Before you begin
Confirm the client, PAN, assessment year, filing kind, and selected ITR form. Recalculate after the latest source, schedule, or challan change. Clear blocking messages and reconcile any tax payable. Keep the authorised filer and the official portal or displayed provider route available. Never enter a portal password, bank credential, OTP, or EVC in a manual evidence field.
Confirm and download the package
Open File for the correct client and assessment year. Confirm that the calculation is valid and any payable liability is reconciled. Review the form, assessment year, totals, payable or refund and complete JSON checksum. Confirm the exact filing package. Select Download schema-checked JSON.
Any later source, schedule, challan or calculation change makes the previous review stale. Confirm and download the new package instead of filing an older copy.
Use the official portal route
Open the official e-Filing portal from the workspace. Choose the same assessment year and the portal's offline filing mode. Upload the downloaded IndiaAuditLens JSON. Review every portal validation and final return value. Submit only under the firm's authorised filing process. Complete the required verification outside IndiaAuditLens.
A successful schema check is not a promise that every taxpayer return will pass every current portal rule. If the portal rejects the file, stop and retain the exact error; do not alter the JSON outside the owned return record.
Use Quicko only when explicitly available
For ITR-3, the provider workspace may expose the pinned Quicko submission operation. A live connection alone does not enable filing. The operation remains subject to the exact return, environment, provider contract, static canary allowlist, frozen JSON checksum and final typed confirmation.
For ITR-1, ITR-2, ITR-4, ITR-5 and ITR-7, use the official portal route unless a future qualified contract is displayed. Other Quicko services such as supported prefill or validation do not imply that direct submission is available.
Record filing and verification evidence
Record whether the portal upload was uploaded, acknowledged, rejected or corrected. Enter the real upload date and acknowledgement number where applicable. Upload the acknowledgement or ITR-V PDF as encrypted evidence. Record the verification status and method. Never enter an OTP in IndiaAuditLens. Review the filing history and its source label.
Operator-entered portal facts are labelled User recorded. A Quicko/provider label is reserved for a matching successful provider run stored against the same return and checksum.
Continue the lifecycle
The workspace can retain verification, processing, refund, demand and defective-return status. A Revised return starts only from a verified filed predecessor and carries its exact acknowledgement and filing date into the new return.
ITR-U is unavailable. Use the official ITR-U workflow rather than treating an Updated Return as an Original or Revised return in IndiaAuditLens.
Expected result
The filed package is the exact package reviewed in IndiaAuditLens, and the real portal or qualified provider outcome, acknowledgement and verification evidence remain linked to the return. Nothing recorded manually is presented as independently fetched portal status.