Income Tax return Filing- Extension of due dates
The Finance Ministry has again extended various due dates for filing of Income Tax Returns and various audit reports for the Assessment year 2021-22 under the Income Tax Act, 1961. The decision has been taken after the consideration of the difficulties reported by the various taxpayers and other stakeholders in filing the ITR and Audit Reports.
ITR Filing Due date Extension |
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Compliance |
Existing Due Date |
Extended Due Date |
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The due date of furnishing of Income Tax Return for the AY 2021-22 (Individuals and non-audit cases) |
30th September, 2021 (Extended from 31st July, 2021) |
31st December, 2021 |
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The due date of furnishing Income Tax Return for AY 2021-22 (Companies and Audit cases, excluding TP Cases) |
30th November, 2021 (Extended from 31st October, 2021) |
15th February 2022 |
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he due date of furnishing Income Tax Return for AY 2021-22 (TP Cases) |
31st December, 2021 (Extended from 30th November, 2021) |
28th February 2022 |
Extension in the due date for furnishing Audit Report |
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Audit Report for the Previous year 2020-21 |
31st October, 2021 (Extended from 30th September 2021) |
15th January 2022 |
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Audit Report for Transfer Pricing cases |
30th November, 2021 (Extended from 31st October 2021) |
31st January 2022 |
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Belated / Revised Income Tax Return for AY 2021-22 |
31st January 2022 (Extended from 31st December 2021) |
31st March 2022 |
There was a lot of chaos among the taxpayers as it was difficult for them to meet the statutory and regulatory compliance due to the whole pandemic COVID 19 outbreak. Keeping in view there were a lot of requests made for taking up certain relief measures under Income Tax Act, 1961, including the extension various due dates for Income Tax Returns and Audit report filing by various organization of Chartered Accountant.
Keeping in view these requests, the Income Tax Department finally announced the extension of the due dates for various Income Tax Return filings and Audit Reports. The announcement about the extended due date of ITR filing was made by publishing a press release on the official twitter handle of the Income Tax Department of India.
Income tax Returns & Audit Reports Filing– Extended Due dates
Particulars |
Earlier Due date |
Extended Due date |
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The due date for filing Income tax Returns by taxpayers, Including their partners (who are required to get their accounts audited) for FY 2019-20 |
31.01.2021 |
15.02.2021 |
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The due date for filing Income tax Returns by other taxpayers (who does not require to get their accounts audited) for FY 2019-20 |
31.12.2020 |
10.01.2021 |
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The last date for filing Income Tax Returns for the taxpayers required to furnish report in respect of international transactions |
31.01.2021 |
15.02.2021 |
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The due date for furnishing Tax Audit Report and report in respect of international/specified domestic transaction for the FY 2019-20 |
31.12.2020 |
15.01.2021 |
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Payment of Tax under Vivad se Vishwas act, 2020 |
31.12.2020 |
31.01.2021 |
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Passing of order or issuance of notice by the authorities under the Direct taxes and Benami Acts |
30.03.2021 |
31.03.2021 |
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Payment of Self assessment tax for small and middle class taxpayers for tax liability up to 1 lakh (who are required to get their accounts audited & report in respect of international transactions) |
31.01.2021 |
15.02.2021 |
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Payment of Self assessment tax for small and middle class taxpayers for tax liability up to 1 lakh (who does not require to get their accounts audited & international/specified domestic transaction for the FY 2019-20) |
31.12.2020 |
10.01.2021 |
Suggested Read: Tax and Compliance Due date for the month of January 2021
Also, the same press release said that the Government has also extended the due date of furnishing of annual return for the FY 2019-20 GSTR 9 and GSTR 9C is extended from 31.12.2020 to 28.02.2021.
The extended due date for ITR will prove to be a great relief for the taxpayers. These announcements will definitely give a great relief to the taxpayers including the Chartered Accountants, CSs, Auditors & Tax Consultants who were panicking to meet the compliance before the due dates.
Download- PDF of the Press Release for the Extension of the due date for ITR filings
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