Income tax notice reply attachments under 5 MB
Replying to an income tax notice through e-proceedings means attaching evidence — bank statements, ledgers, purchase bills, confirmations — as PDFs of 5 MB or less each. The trouble is never the typed reply; it is the 40-page scanned bank statement or the ledger printed to PDF with embedded images. KBcut keeps digital PDFs exactly as they are when they fit, compresses scans that do not, and splits long evidence into parts under 5 MB with page ranges in the file names so the assessing officer can follow them.
What people upload here
- Bank statements for the year under scrutiny
- Ledger extracts, purchase and sales registers exported from accounting software
- Scanned bills, confirmations from parties, loan agreements
- Computation of income, audit report extracts, and supporting schedules
What the Income Tax e-filing upload checks
- Each attachment is capped at 5 MB; a response can carry several attachments, subject to the portal's own total limit.
- Attachments are PDFs. Name them so the officer can map them to your reply (Annexure A – bank statement, part 1 of 3).
- Text PDFs exported from Tally or a bank portal should stay text — re-rendering them into images makes them larger and unsearchable.
- Scanned evidence can be compressed; greyscale is fine for statements and bills.
- If a document is DSC-signed, do not compress it — any rewrite breaks the signature. Split it or upload as is.
Caps on this page follow published portal guidance and commonly reported limits as of September 2026. The portal's own notice or on-screen error always wins — type its number into the cap box if it differs.
Why a generic compressor gets this wrong
For a 5 MB cap, the right tool is often a split, not a compressor. A 22 MB bank statement downloaded from net banking is text; rasterising it to hit 5 MB would make it blurry, unsearchable and paradoxically harder to verify. KBcut's rule is simple: if the PDF fits, it is returned untouched. If a scan does not fit, it is compressed from 300 DPI downwards. If the result is still too big — or you would rather keep the text — one tap splits the original into consecutive parts under 5 MB, each named with its page range, ready to attach as Annexure A-1, A-2 and so on.
How to do it
- Select the evidence PDF.
- Keep the cap at 5 MB (5120 KB). Colour stays on so text PDFs are returned untouched when they fit.
- Press Cut to size. If it cannot fit without blurring, use Split into parts instead and attach the parts in order.
Questions
Should I compress or split a bank statement?
Split. Statements are text; splitting keeps them searchable and exact. Compress only scanned paper.
Will compression break a DSC signature?
Yes — any tool that rewrites a signed PDF invalidates the signature. KBcut returns signed PDFs untouched if they fit; if they do not, split them instead.
Is 5 MB per file or per response?
Per attachment. The portal also has a limit on how many attachments and the combined size — it shows it on the response screen.
Confidential client data?
Nothing is uploaded. The PDF is processed inside your browser; you can disconnect the internet after loading the page.
Can I attach an Excel ledger?
Only the formats the response screen lists are accepted, and that is usually PDF. Export the ledger to PDF from Tally or Excel — text exports are small and almost always fit without compression.