New Delhi, Feb 7 (FN Agency) The Income Tax (I-T) department on Monday said that around 6.17 crore income tax returns (ITRs) and about 19 lakh major tax audit reports have been filed on its new e-Filing portal. “Out of 6.17 crore ITRs filed for AY 2021-22, 48% of these are ITR-1 (2.97 crore), 9% is ITR-2 (56 lakh), 13% is ITR-3 (81.6 lakh), 27% are ITR-4 (1.65 crore), ITR-5 (10.9 lakh), ITR-6 (4.84 lakh) and ITR-7 (1.32 lakh),” the tax department said in a statement. According to the department, over 1.73 lakh Form 3CA-3CD and 15.62 lakh Form 3CB-3CD have been filed in FY 21-22. “More than 1.61 lakh other Tax Audit Reports (Form 10B, 29B, 29C, 3CEB, 10CCB, 10 BB) have been filed till 06.02.2022,” it said.
The department has been issuing reminders to taxpayers through emails, SMS and Twitter encouraging taxpayers and Chartered Accountants (CAs) not to wait till the last minute and file their TARs/ITRs without further delay. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had last month extended the deadline for corporates to file Income Tax returns for the financial year 2020-21 to March 15, 2022 in view of difficulties faced by them. The deadline to file tax audit report and transfer pricing audit report had been extended till February 15, 2022. “On consideration of difficulties reported by the taxpayers and other stakeholders due to Covid and in electronic filing of various reports of audit under the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act), the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided to further extend the due dates for filing of Income Tax Returns and various reports of audit for the Assessment Year 2021-22,” the CBDT had said in a statement on January 11.