Now you can download intimation order u/s 143(1) from e filing website profile.

All the people filing Income tax return get Intimation u/s 143(1) and many a times as a professional its difficult to ask the client for the email he has received for intimation order or even as a taxpayer its difficult to know if you have received such intimation or not because many a times the intimation goes in spam and then you need to again request for such intimation from e-filing website which is again sent to the registered email id on e filing website.

However now as the income tax website is constantly into automation and making the website more user friendly, the most awaited feature has been launched on e filing website where below your message where it used to show the e-mail id to which intimation order has been sent, now there will be a link from where you can download the intimation order and hence you are not required to request the intimation order again and again and this was required by many professional and tax payer as after requesting they had to wait for 2-3 days for such service request to get processed but now they can directly download the notice and take suitable action.

All previous years’s intimation would also be available for you to download in respective assessment year.

What is Intimation order u/s 143(1)?

In a nutshell you can say that intimation order u/s 143(1) is a preliminary assessment/ processing of your return of income filed by you by Income Tax department. From past few years such processing of your return is done by Central Processing Centre (CPC) (on computer), situated in Bangalore. All the return filed need to processed and in mostly all cases intimation u/s 143(1) is issued and if in some cases it is not issued then acknowledgement of return of income can be assumed as intimation.