New Delhi, Dec 28 (FN Agency) With three days remaining to file returns, over 4.67 crore income tax returns (ITRs) have been filed on the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department as on December 27. Out of 4.67 crore ITRs filed for assessment year 2021-22, 53.6% of these are ITR1 (2.5 crore), 8.9% is ITR2 (41.7 lakh), 10.75% is ITR3 (50.25 lakh), 25% are ITR4 (1.17 crore), ITR5 (5.18 lakh), ITR6 (2.15 lakh) and ITR7 (0.43 lakh),” Income Tax department said on Tuesday.
Over 48.19% of these ITRs have been filed using the online ITR form on the portal and the balance has been uploaded using the ITR created from the offline software utilities. As per the latest update, over 3.91 crore returns have been verified, out of which more than 3.35 crore are through Aadhaar based OTP. “In the last 3 days itself, 27.7 lakh Aadhaar OTP requests have been generated on new e-filing portal. Taxpayers are advised to complete e-verification at the earliest in pending cases,” the Tax department said. Of the e-verified ITRs more than 2.88 crore ITRs have been processed and over 1.07 crore refunds for AY 2021-22 have been issued. The Income Tax department has been issuing reminders to taxpayers through emails, SMS and media campaigns encouraging taxpayers not to wait till the last minute and file their ITRs without further delay. “All taxpayers who are yet to file their Income Tax returns for AY 2021-22 are requested to file their returns at the earliest to avoid any late fee,” it said.