New Delhi: Around 5.89 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) have been filed on the new e-filing portal of the tax department till the extended due date of December 31, 2021. Finance Ministry Said on Saturday. Over 46.11 lakh ITRs were filed on December 31. To assist taxpayers with a seamless experience on the portal, 16,850 taxpayer calls and 1,467 chats were answered by the helpdesk. In addition, the department is actively engaging and reaching out to taxpayers and professionals for assistance on its official Twitter handle. On December 31, over 230 tweets from taxpayers and professionals were replied to.
The Center on Friday said that there is no proposal to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns. Addressing a press conference after the end of GST Council In the meeting held on Friday, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj had clarified that the return filing work is going on smoothly. The deadline expired on December 31st. Calls were made to extend the deadline in view of the increase in the number of COVID cases and the new version.
Bajaj had said that there is no technical issue and the number of returns filed is increasing every hour. The deadline for filing returns for this year was earlier extended due to the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 and technical glitches related to the tax filing portal.
For the assessment year 2021-22, out of 5.89 crore ITRs filed till December 31, 49.6% are ITR1 (2.92 crore), 9.3% ITR2 (54.8 lakh), 12.1% ITR3 (71.05 lakh), 27.2%. ITR4 (1.60 crores), 1.3% are ITR5 (7.66 lakhs), ITR6 (2.58 lakhs) and ITR7 (0.67 lakhs). More than 45.7% of these ITRs have been filed using online ITR The form and balance is uploaded on the portal using ITR generated from the offline software utilities.
The Center on Friday said that there is no proposal to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns. Addressing a press conference after the end of GST Council In the meeting held on Friday, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj had clarified that the return filing work is going on smoothly. The deadline expired on December 31st. Calls were made to extend the deadline in view of the increase in the number of COVID cases and the new version.
Bajaj had said that there is no technical issue and the number of returns filed is increasing every hour. The deadline for filing returns for this year was earlier extended due to the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 and technical glitches related to the tax filing portal.
For the assessment year 2021-22, out of 5.89 crore ITRs filed till December 31, 49.6% are ITR1 (2.92 crore), 9.3% ITR2 (54.8 lakh), 12.1% ITR3 (71.05 lakh), 27.2%. ITR4 (1.60 crores), 1.3% are ITR5 (7.66 lakhs), ITR6 (2.58 lakhs) and ITR7 (0.67 lakhs). More than 45.7% of these ITRs have been filed using online ITR The form and balance is uploaded on the portal using ITR generated from the offline software utilities.
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