Last Date for Income Tax Form filling extended to August 5

The Income Tax office on Monday broadened the government forms recording due date from July 31 to August 5. The new last date will give citizens enough time to get ready archives and record their government forms.
The augmentation in due date has purportedly been allowed as individuals have confronted issues in documenting pay government forms on a day ago utilizing pay charge site. In addition, citizens have additionally griped that pay assess site was not acting as there was tremendous surge on to the site.
Prior, CBDT had said last date for recording of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for the budgetary year 2016-17 won’t be stretched out past the present due date, a best authority said. “The last date for documenting of ITRs remains July 31. There are no plans to expand this due date.
The office has effectively gotten more than 2 crore returns recorded electronically. The division demands citizens to document their arrival in time,” the authority said. On reports of the e-documenting site confronting some glitches, the authority said that no major glitches have been accounted for with the office’s e-recording site – http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/ – notwithstanding a couple of times when the entry was “hindered for upkeep”.
The division has likewise issued commercials in driving national dailies over the most recent couple of days expressing that citizens ought to uncover their pay “effectively” and document their ITRs at the very latest July 31. The connecting of Aadhaar number with the PAN (Permanent Account Number) of a citizen has likewise been made compulsory for documenting of an ITR, starting July 1.
The division has likewise requested that citizens proclaim trade stores made out financial balances amassing to Rs. 2 lakh or more, post demonetisation between November 9-December 30 a year ago, in the ITRs. The ITRs to be documented by July 31 relate to 2016-17 monetary or appraisal year 2017-18.