ITR Processing Weekly Update

Last updated: May 28, 2026 — weekly updates paused while the portal transitions to AY 2026-27

What the Last Published Figures Showed

The IT portal's final AY 2025-26 daily snapshot (recorded 31 March 2026) showed cumulative ~8.74 crore e-verified returns against ~8.59 crore processed, leaving roughly 15 lakh pending at end of March. CPC's subsequent monthly publication then reported approximately 1.5 lakh additional returns cleared in April 2026, leaving roughly 13.5 lakh implied still pending at end of April.

This is an upper bound on queue delay — some of the 13.5 lakh is held for scrutiny, refund verification, or pending additional information from the filer, not pure queue position. And because the portal does not publish updated AY 2025-26 figures after 1 April 2026, this is an inference from the last published numbers, not a fresh daily reading.

The FY-End Push and April Clearance

Two clearance events define the recent AY 2025-26 picture:

For context on what CPC can do when it pushes hard: the all-time one-day record remains 6.97 lakh returns on 14 February 2026. The 31 March push wasn't a record day, but it was an unusually large clean-out for an end-of-FY date.

Why Weekly Updates Are Paused

This article was originally a weekly snapshot of AY 2025-26 daily processing data from the IT portal's success-enablers dashboard. Two things changed on 1 April 2026:

• The portal stopped publishing the AY 2025-26 success-enablers series.
• The series was reset for AY 2026-27, but the new series didn't begin publishing until 25 May 2026, and at very low volume.

Until either AY 2026-27 reaches enough volume to characterise a weekly trend or CPC publishes the next monthly AY 2025-26 update, there isn't enough fresh signal to reconstruct a meaningful weekly view. Projecting a clearance date from old March 2026 daily counters would be misleading.

What To Do If You're Still Waiting

If your AY 2025-26 return is still pending after the March-April 2026 clearance pushes, the next step is to check whether your return has a flag attached to it — not to wait for queue movement.

1. Check the e-Filing portal for any notices — login → View Filed Returns → look for any Section 143(1), 143(2), or 139(9) notice. A pending notice blocks further processing.
2. Confirm bank pre-validation — your bank account must be pre-validated for refund credit and PAN-Aadhaar linkage must be current.
3. If still under processing after 9+ months — raise a grievance through the e-Nivaran tab on the e-Filing portal.
4. If you haven't e-verified yet — e-verify immediately. Your timeline only starts after verification.

When Updates Will Resume

We'll resume this weekly cadence as soon as either of these signals returns:

• AY 2026-27 daily data fills in enough to characterise meaningful week-on-week movement. Filing volume typically picks up in June-July ahead of the 31 July due date, so this is most likely to happen mid-to-late June 2026.
• CPC publishes the next monthly AY 2025-26 update. That will give us a concrete data point on backlog clearance to write about.

Until then, the page above describes the last known state. For live AY 2026-27 numbers as they fill in, check the dashboard.