New portal used to file Rs 5.9 crore I-T returns till December 31: Finance ministry

Jan 2, 2022

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NEW DELHI: Almost 5.89 crore revenue tax returns (ITRs) have been filed on the brand new e-filing portal of the tax division as on December 31, 2021, the prolonged due date, the finance ministry mentioned on Saturday. Greater than 46.11 lakh ITRs have been filed on December 31. With a view to help taxpayers with a easy expertise on the portal, 16,850 taxpayer calls and 1,467 chats have been responded to by the helpdesk. As well as, the division has been proactively partaking with and reaching out to taxpayers and professionals for help on its official Twitter deal with. On December 31, greater than 230 Tweets from taxpayers and professionals have been responded to.
The Centre on Friday had mentioned there was no proposal to increase the deadline for submitting revenue tax returns. Addressing a information convention after the tip of the GST Council assembly on Friday, Income Secretary Tarun Bajaj had made it clear that submitting of returns was happening easily. The deadline ended on December 31 midnight. There had been calls to increase the deadline given the rise in Covid instances and the brand new variant.
Bajaj had mentioned there was no technical concern in any respect and figures for returns filed have been going up each hour. The deadline for submitting the returns for this yr had been prolonged earlier because of the impression of the second wave of Covid-19 and the technical glitches linked to the tax submitting portal.
Out of 5.89 crore ITRs filed for the evaluation yr 2021-22 as on December 31, 49.6% of those are ITR1 (2.92 crore), 9.3% are ITR2 (54.8 lakh), 12.1% are ITR3 (71.05 lakh), 27.2% are ITR4 (1.60 crore), 1.3% are ITR5 (7.66 lakh), ITR6 (2.58 lakh) and ITR7 (0.67 lakh). Over 45.7% of those ITRs have been filed utilizing the net ITR kind on the portal and the stability have been uploaded utilizing the ITR created from the offline software program utilities.



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