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The deadline for filing your ITR (ITR Filing 2025) has passed. After filing your ITR, you receive a message and an email from the Income Tax Department within a few days. This email and message inform you whether you have filed your ITR correctly. If there are any errors in your ITR, you will be notified. This process is called an ITR intimation. You will receive two numbers in the message and email. One number indicates everything is OK, and the other indicates something is wrong.

What does the number sent in the ITR intimation mean?
ITR Intimation simply refers to the processing of your ITR return. An intimation under Section 143(1) is an income tax notice that summarizes the details of your processed income tax return (ITR). This may result in a refund, a demand, or a requirement to take no action.

Intimation received under Section 143(1). If there is no problem with the ITR filed by you, you will receive a message from the Income Tax Department stating - Please find attached the Income Tax Intimation u/s 143(1) with respect to the return of income filed by you for the Assessment year 2025-26.

If there is any error while filing the ITR, you will be informed under Section 143(2). During this, you will receive a message from the Income Tax Department stating - Please find attached the Income Tax Intimation u/s 143(2) with respect to the return of income filed by you for the Assessment year 2025-26.

Receiving a notice under Section 143(2) means that the Income Tax Officer is satisfied with the ITR filed by you. There are some deficiencies in it. Or it could be that the Assessing Officer has not received any documents. If you receive a notice under Section 143(2), it means that your assessing officer has selected your return for detailed scrutiny.

The notice does not mean that you have evaded tax, but rather that the department seeks additional clarifications and explanations through the notice. This is to ensure that there is no underreporting of income, errors, discrepancies, or fraudulent deductions.

ITR Intimation: What to do if you receive a 143(2) notice?
If you have received a 143(2) notice from the Income Tax Department on your ITR, you must respond. You can do so by following the process below.

Log in to your Income Tax portal.
Follow the process below and click on "Go to Worklist" and then click on "E-Proceedings."
Select the notice you want to respond to and click "View Notice."
Click "Submit Reply."
You can choose "Agree" or "Disagree."
If you agree with the notice, you can submit it by uploading the JSON file of the ITR generated by the offline utility.

If you disagree, select the reason for disagreement and submit.

You will receive a successful submission dialog box with the transaction number.

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