The cumulative revenue tax returns (ITRs) filed for the monetary yr 2021-22 stand at 5.83 crore with a report 72.42 lakh ITRs filed on the final day which was July 31.
“The surge of submitting ITRs peaked on July 31, 2022 (due date for salaried taxpayers and different non-tax audit instances) with over 72.42 lakh ITRs being filed on a single day,” based on an official assertion issued on Monday.
“The e-filing portal additionally set different benchmarks on July 31, 2022, together with – highest per second fee of ITR submitting: 570 (at 4:29:30 pm), highest per minute fee of ITR submitting: 9573 (at 7:44 pm), and the best per hour fee of ITR submitting: 5,17,030, between 5 PM to six PM,” the assertion added.
Within the final fiscal of 2020-21, about 5.89 crore ITRs had been filed by the prolonged due date of December 31, 2021.
This time, the Union authorities refused to increase the July 31 deadline for ITR submitting regardless of a number of individuals taking to social media to level out the glitches on the revenue tax portal which was not permitting them to file their returns.
Over the past two monetary years, the deadline had been prolonged.
“With the Authorities asserting that there can be no extension of the due date, there was a surge in submitting of ITRs and by July 25, 2022, 3 crore ITRs had been filed. By the tip of the day on thirty first July 2022, 72.42 lakh ITRs had been filed, shattering all earlier data (most being 49 lakh ITRs in 2019). Within the month of July 2022 alone, over 5.13 crore ITRs have been filed,” Monday’s assertion additional mentioned.
