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STEP 1: Please visit the site: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/. You’ll be greeted by the following screen.

If you don’t have an account, please click “Register”.

STEP 2: The screen will ask for your PAN number. The PAN number is 10 characters long, printed on your PAN card.

As highlighted in the image, please type in your PAN number.

STEP 3: The screen shows “Registration Details”. Here, the website helps you to set up your account. To do so, you must enter the details that each field is asking.

Note that in the image we have stressed that fields having asterisk (*) sign are mandatory. If these fields are not filled with information, the website cannot set up your account. Give a working e-mail address which you can access in the box that asks for e-mail address because you may be required to access it during this tutorial.

After filling all the information, click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the webpage.

STEP 4: You land on the SUCCESS page.

Activate your account by logging in to the e-mail address that you provided in step 3.

STEP 5: In the e-mail ID please check for an email having:

FROM: donotreply@incometaxefiling.gov.in
SUBJECT: Confirmation mail from DIT for profile creation

This e-mail has a link that has been highlighted in the image.

On clicking that link, your account becomes active. So please click the link highlighted in the image above and move to the next step.

STEP 6: You’ll see the following webpage which will change in a few seconds.

STEP 7: You’ll then be greeted now with the login page. It looks like the image below.

Please fill the right information that you had used while setting up your account in Step 3 into the highlighted boxes shown in the image and click “Login” button.

STEP 8: The webpage you see now seems familiar to the webpage you saw in step 1. The difference is that the name is visible. This is the same name that you used when setting up the account.

Move your mouse to the “My Accounts” option visible on the orange bar situated at the top left. Under the menu that opens, please select “View Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS)”. That opens your Form 26AS statement that you can either view online or download to your computer to view it later.