Giving a breather to the tax payers who had been beneath tremendous stress to meet the December 31, 2020 deadline to file their returns, the Government on Wednesday have extended the deadline for ITR filing. The deadline for filing earnings tax returns by folks is extended by only 10 days to January 10, 2021.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) mentioned the government has been getting numerous representations on the will need to extend the deadline, on account of obstruction to company due to COVID-19-associated restrictions.
Meanwhile, according to the statistics released by the earnings tax division on Friday 1,40,098 ITRs have been filed up to 4.00 pm today and 25,927 ITRs filed in the final one particular hour, it mentioned.