Income Tax Department on Friday said that more than 4 crore returns have been filed through the e-filing portal till July 28 for the financial year 2021-22. Income Tax Returns (ITR) filing last date extend: what we know so far. The department also reminded taxpayer who are yet to file the returns to do so before the deadline, July 31.
”Over 4.09 crore ITRs filed till 28th July, 2022 & more than 36 lakh ITRs filed on 28th July, 2022 itself. The due date to file ITR for AY 2022-23 is 31st July, 2022.,” the I-T department said in a tweet. Over 3 crore ITRs were filed till July 25 for the financial year 2021-22.
Last fiscal (2020-21), about 5.89 crore ITRs were filed by the extended due date of December 31, 2021. ITR filing is an annual activity seen as a duty of every responsible citizen of the nation. Taxpayers can claim the refund of the excess tax paid/deducted during a financial year by filing it.
The I-T department has established an independent portal for e-filing of income tax returns incometaxindia.gov.in. Additionally, there are certain private entities, registered by the Income Tax Department that allows taxpayers to e-file through their websites.
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As the July 31 deadline for filing income tax returns approaches, netizens are doing a series of tweets under the hashtag #Extend_Due_Dates to extend the last date on Twitter. As the deadline for filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) filing approaches, netizens have highlighted several issues with the Income Tax portal and have also called for an immediate extension of the deadline. But the government does not seem to have any plan to extend the July 31 deadline.
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