The date of filing the return varies according to the category of the taxpayer. Salaried individuals have to file income tax returns by 31 July while corporates and businessmen have to file returns by 31 October.
67,97,067 ITRs were filled till 11 pm on the last day of ITR filing i.e. 31st July. Between 10 and 11 pm, ie 4,50,013 ITRs have been filed in 1 hour. This information has been given on the Twitter handle of Income Tax Department. Explain that the date of filing the return varies according to the category of the taxpayer. Salaried individuals have to file income tax returns by 31 July while corporates and businessmen have to file returns by 31 October.
The Income Tax Department has said that taxpayers whose mobile numbers are not linked with Aadhaar can enter a new password on the income tax e-filing portal by logging in to internet banking or using a valid digital signature certificate.
As the deadline for filing income tax returns is approaching for taxpayers with business income and the corporate world, the Income Tax Department has issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). Here are the answers to 10 major questions that taxpayers asked while filing returns (ITR).
The Income Tax Department said that various banks send the information to the department in three to four days, only after that the information is added to the tax-return/details already filled. The tax payment information starts showing automatically in the ITR but taxpayers will have to wait a bit.
