2024-07-30 22:33:10
New Delhi: The last date for filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) for the financial year 2023-24 is July 31, 2024. Now less than two days are left for it to end. The Income Tax Department has advised taxpayers to file their tax returns before the deadline of July 31, 2024. Now only two days are left in this while crores of taxpayers have not filed ITR so far. In such a situation, the question arises whether there will be any extension in the deadline for filing ITR? There is little or no possibility of extending the deadline for income tax returns this year. More than 5 crore ITRs have been filed for AY 2024-25 till July 26 this year as compared to July 27 last year. Last year, 6.77 crore income tax returns were filed till July 31, 2023. Last year, the government did not extend the deadline for filing income tax returns. However, the government had extended the deadline for filing ITR two years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, a screenshot is being shared on social media claiming that the government has extended the deadline for ITR e-filing till August 31, 2024. However, the Income Tax Department has termed it as fake and said that the deadline for filing ITR for the financial year 2023-24 is July 31, 2024. There is a demand to extend the deadline on July 31 due to several technical problems being faced on the e-filing portal.
If you make this small mistake in ITR filing, you will keep waiting for tax refund, pay attention immediately!
What is the problem?
Users complain that there is a problem with Aadhaar-based OTP verification on the e-filing portal. Also, the page is loading slow and there are problems in uploading. The All India Federation of Tax Practitioners has urged the CBDT to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns for assessment year 2024-25 by one month to August 31. AIFTP National President Narayan Jain and Direct Tax Representation Committee Chairman SM Surana said that the process of filing tax returns in many states has been badly affected due to floods and landslides.
But the CBDT chairman last week ruled out the possibility of extending the e-filing deadline. He said that we are working closely with our service providers Infosys, IBM and Hitachi. The volume is very high and compliance is also good. I have been assured that the website will work properly. However, taxpayers are constantly complaining. Many taxpayers say that they are not able to download 26S. They are complaining about this with screenshots on social media platforms.