If you are filing online your Income Tax return, the paper copy of the ‘ITRV’ should only be sent through “speed post” to the Central Processing Centre (CPC) of the department in Bengaluru.ITRV or ‘Income Tax Return – Verification’ form is issued as an acknowledgement to returns filed online.
As part of facilitating better taxpayer services, the I-T department has now changed the procedure and has disallowed sending the paper statements through ordinary post or to a designated post box number. “This is to ensure that there are no grievances with regard to non-receipt of ITRV at CPC. Even if the document is not received at CPC, the taxpayer will have a documentary proof to show that he has sent his ITRV through post to the CPC,” a senior official told the news agency PTI.