The numbers are anticipated to be revised because the submitting window closes at midnight right this moment. Round 50 lakh filings had been made on Saturday alone.
As of Sunday 6 p.m., the full filings on the earnings tax portal have touched 5.5 crore with no information from the ministry concerning any extension.
Final week Tarun Bajaj instructed PTI that there was no plan to increase the submitting date.
“Folks thought the routine now’s that dates will likely be prolonged. So that they had been slightly sluggish in filling the returns initially however now each day, we’re getting between 15 lakhs to 18 lakh returns. This can barely go as much as 25 lakh to 30 lakh returns,” he instructed PTI.
Representations for extensions have been made on the microblogging web site and through letters to the chairman of the CBDT by people and trade our bodies alike. The requests come as a number of customers took to Twitter to specific their difficulties with glitches within the Revenue Tax portal. A majority of the returns are filed within the final week of due date, taking a heavy toll on the servers.
Filings made previous the due date will likely be levied a positive as much as Rs 5,000 if the returns are filed by the top of the 12 months.
The part 234F of the Revenue Tax Act states that late filers can be levied a late payment of Rs 5,000 if their annual earnings of over Rs 5 lakh they usually file their returns by December 31 of the evaluation Yr. The late payment can go as much as Rs 10,000 if the ITR is filed after Dec. thirty first however earlier than March 31 of the Evaluation Yr.
These with an annual earnings beneath Rs 5 lakh will likely be chargeable for a late payment of Rs 1,000.
The division has been tweeting the previous week, urging tax payers to not wait until the final date and responding to the complaints of tax filers on twitter and through helplines.
