Income Tax: Changing these details on e-Filing website? Here's are the ways you can e-verify it

The Income-Tax Department relies on the registered mobile number and email ID for all important communications related to e-Filing. Taxpayers should ensure that their contact details on the income tax portal are valid, updated, and personally accessible. To maintain direct and secure communication, taxpayers must verify and update their contact information on the e-Filing portal at the earliest.

When updating contact details on the Income Tax e-Filing portal, taxpayers must now complete an additional step of e-verification. This added layer of security ensures that only the rightful owner updates the contact information. Taxpayers can choose from multiple e-verification methods, including Aadhaar OTP, Digital Signature Certificate (DSC), net banking, linked bank account, or demat account. One of these methods must be used to authenticate and successfully update the contact details.

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Here are the steps to change contact details by e verification

Step 1: Log in to the income tax e-filing portal by entering your credentials.
Step 2: Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select ‘My Profile’ from the dropdown. Alternatively, you can select the ‘Update Profile’ button.
Step 3: On the personal details page, click on the ‘Edit’ button under the ‘Contact’ section.
Step 4: You can update the contact details here, such as mobile number, email ID and address as per your PAN or Aadhaar card and click on ‘Save’. On the ‘Verify your Contact Details’ page, enter the OTP received on your mobile number and email ID and click ‘Submit’.
Step 5: Next page will ask ‘How do you want to e-verify?’

Select from the below list
I would like to verify using OTP on mobile number registered with Aadhaar
I would like to verify using Digital Signature Certificate
Generate Electronic Verification Code
Through Net banking
Through Bank account
Through demat account

A success message page is displayed along with a Transaction ID. Please keep a note of the Transaction ID for future reference. You will also receive a confirmation message on your email ID and mobile number registered on the e-Filing portal.

Things to note when updating contact details

Mobile Number and Email ID
If you update your mobile number and email ID as per bank details, you will receive the OTP on the primary mobile number and primary email ID respectively entered on the e-Filing portal.
If you update your mobile number and email ID as per Aadhaar and no other edits have been made, you will not be required to verify the mobile number, however, you will be required to verify the email ID.

Address
In case you only update address details (as per PAN / Aadhaar), no OTP authentication will be required. On successful updation of the address an email will be sent to you on the primary email ID registered on the e-Filing portal.