The government has extended the income tax filing date by two months to September 30 for the financial year 2018-2019 (assessment year 2019-20). In a tweet, the Income Tax Department said, “The Central Board of Direct Taxes has now extended this date from 31 July to 30 September for the purpose of facilitating taxpayers amid the Kovid epidemic.” This date has been extended for the third time this year for taxpayers.
The government had fixed July 31 as the last date for filing income tax returns for the financial year 2018-19, which has now been extended to 30 September. By extending the date, the taxpayers have now got an additional time of about two months to file the return.
In view of the constraints due to the Covid pandemic & to further ease compliances for taxpayers, CBDT extends the due dt for filing of Income Tax Returns for FY 2018-19(AY 2019-20) from 31st July, 2020 to 30th September, 2020,vide Notification in S.O. 2512(E) dt 29th July, 2020.
The Income Tax Department has given information in this regard through a tweet. This decision has provided huge relief to the taxpayers. The reason that people were facing difficulty in filling ITR was because of Corona epidemic and lockdown.
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Tax Department has said in its tweet that due to the Kovid epidemic and for the convenience of taxpayers, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) for FY 2018 The last date for filing of income tax returns for the year 19 (assessment year 2019-20) has been increased from 31 July 2020 to 30 September 2020.
July 31 was the last date for filing returns
Explain that the last date for filing income tax returns for the financial year 2018-19 (assessment year 2019-20) was 31 July. But due to the Kovid-19 epidemic and lockdown, taxpayers were facing problems in filing returns. Keeping this in mind, now additional time has been given for filing ITR.
