Instructions for filling out FORM ITR-3 These instructions are guidelines for filling the particulars in this Return Form. In case of any doubt, please refer to relevant provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and the Income-tax Rules, 1962. 1. Assessment Year for which this Return Form is applicable This Return Form is applicable for assessment year 2012-2013 only, i.e., it relates to income earned in Financial Year 2011-12. 2. Who can use this Return Form? This Return Form is to be used by an individual or an Hindu Undivided Family who is a partner in a firm and where income chargeable to income-tax under the head "Profits or gains of business or profession" does not include any income except the income by way of any interest, salary, bonus, commission or remuneration, by whatever name called, due to, or received by him from such firm. In case a partner in the firm does not have any income from the firm by way of interest, salary, etc. and has only exempt income by way of share in the profit of the firm, he shall use this form only and not Form ITR-2. 3. Who cannot use this Return Form? This Return Form should not be used by an individual whose total income for the assessment year 2012-13 includes Income from Business or Profession under any proprietorship. 4. Annexure-less Return Form No document (including TDS certificate) should be attached to this Return Form. All such documents enclosed with this Return Form will be detached and returned to the person filing the return. 5. Manner of filing this Return Form This Return Form can be filed with the Income Tax Department in any of the following ways, - (i) by furnishing the return in a paper form; (ii) by furnishing the return electronically under digital signature; (iii) by transmitting the data in the return electronically and thereafter submitting the verification of the return in Return Form ITR-V; (iv) by furnishing a Bar-coded return. In the case of an assessee to whom Schedule FA applies [a resident assessee having assets (including financial interest in any entity) located outside India or signing authority in any account located outside India], he has to furnish the return in the manner provided at 5 (ii) or 5 (iii).
