The Earnings Tax Division in a late night time announcement at 1148 PM IST granted a one-day extension until September 16 to taxpayers to file their revenue tax returns for Evaluation 12 months 2025-26. The extension got here after a number of taxpayers, tax professionals and chartered accountants on social media platform X raised a collection of complaints about glitches within the revenue tax portal over the previous few days.
The complaints ranged from the deadlines of each advance tax and revenue tax returns coinciding with one another to the portal abruptly logging out the customers. Many customers additionally complained about having paid extra tax via self evaluation however not having the ability to generate challan because the portal was getting caught and never permitting a clean login course of. The session would present to be expired for a lot of customers, whereas some complained about not having the ability to file returns via the net and offline utilities out there on the portal.
Regardless of these points and the final minute rush, the Earnings Tax Division recorded submitting of over 7.3 crore returns until September 15. That is larger than 7.28 crore returns filed by the deadline of July 31 final 12 months.
“The due date for submitting of Earnings Tax Returns (ITRs) for AY 2025-26, initially due on thirty first July 2025, was prolonged to fifteenth September 2025. The Central Board of Direct Taxes has determined to additional lengthen the due date for submitting these ITRs for AY 2025-26 from fifteenth September, 2025 to sixteenth September, 2025,” the Earnings Tax Division mentioned in a submit on X.
The Division additionally mentioned that the e- submitting portal will stay in upkeep mode from 12:00 AM to 02:30 AM on September 16 to allow modifications within the utilities.
The extension will apply to revenue tax returns for people and entities who don’t have to get their accounts audited.
In Could, the Earnings Tax Division had prolonged the submitting date for revenue tax returns for evaluation 12 months 2025-26 (monetary 12 months 2024-25) to September 15 from July 31. Citing “structural and content material revisions”, the Earnings Tax Division had mentioned the modifications have “necessitated extra time for system growth, integration, and testing of the corresponding utilities”.
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Despite the fact that the Earnings Tax Division had notified revenue tax returns for the Evaluation 12 months 2025-26 in April-end this 12 months, the utilities to file returns hit a hurdle because the backend work was not accomplished by Infosys, which is managing the tech platform for the Earnings Tax Division.
The I-T Division, which features underneath the CBDT, had included a provision to file particulars of long-term capital good points inside the ITR-1 and ITR-4 codecs this 12 months onwards. Earlier, taxpayers submitting ITR-1 needed to file the small print of capital good points in ITR-2 individually. It had additionally included extra detailed disclosures for overseas revenue and property.
The Division had notified ITR-1 Sahaj and ITR-4 Sugam on April 30. ITR-1 might be filed by a person having revenue as much as Rs 50 lakh and who receives revenue from wage, one home property, different sources (curiosity, and many others), long-term capital good points underneath part 112A as much as Rs 1.25 lakh, and agricultural revenue as much as Rs 5,000. ITR-4 might be filed by people, Hindu Undivided Households (HUFs) and companies with whole revenue as much as Rs 50 lakh, having revenue from enterprise and career, and having long-term capital good points underneath part 112A as much as Rs 1.25 lakh.
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