File Your Own Income Tax Return
Free course, with a certificate from insiderOne University
A free Income Tax Return course from insiderOne University, in English, that takes about 2 hours. File your own income tax return on the official portal, check it against your AIS, verify it and track your refund, step by step. It ends in one assessed project. The course and the certificate are free. Anyone can verify the certificate at its own link, without an account.
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What you will be able to do
- Decide whether you must file, and list what filing would get you even when you need not
- Collect Form No. 130, your AIS, TIS and Form 26AS and check them against each other
- Choose the right ITR form and tax regime for salary, interest and freelance income
- File a return on incometax.gov.in from the pre-filled data, correcting every wrong line
- Work out total income and tax both ways, then verify the return and track the refund
- Fix a mismatch, a defective return or a missed deadline with the right return and party
Students and first-job earners in India who have never filed a return, or who let someone else file it. You need a phone, and later your own PAN and documents, kept on the official portal only.
What is in it
- 1Do I need to file?12 min
- 2Your documents: Form 130, AIS, TIS and Form 26AS11 min
- 3Which ITR form, and which regime11 min
- 4Registering and logging in safely10 min
- 5Filing step by step with pre-filled data12 min
- 6Deductions and exemptions in each regime12 min
- 7Verifying the return, and your refund11 min
- 8Notices, corrections and deadlines12 min
Ritika's first return: form, tax both ways, mismatches and refund
A filing plan for Ritika's sample return for tax year 2026-27: form, tax both ways, regime, schedules, mismatch fixes and verification dates, using only the given figures.
About 125 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Income Tax Return Filing at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing. The course and the certificate are free, and so is verifying it.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
The course and the certificate are free, and anyone they send it to can check it.