The Income Tax Department NEVER asks for your PIN numbers, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial accounts through e-mail.

The Income Tax Department appeals to taxpayers NOT to respond to such e-mails and NOT to share information relating to their credit card, bank and other financial accounts.

The procedure for responding to defective return notice and e-file rectified ITR under section 139(9) is as follows:

Go to https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/ and log in with your User ID and password;
Click on the e-proceedings tab, select the defective notice, and click on view;
On successful validation, the defective notice will be displayed;
Click on submit in the response column to submit a response;
Select the relevant ITR form from the drop down and upload the corrected XML file.

Go to https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/

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