The final date for submitting tax returns for earnings earned within the earlier fiscal by people and people who don’t have to get their accounts audited is July 31. So for earnings earned in 2022-23 (April-March) fiscal, the deadline to file ITR for this class of taxpayers was July 31, 2023.
In July, which is the final month of I-T return submitting, over 5.41 crore returns had been filed, taking the overall variety of submitting to over 6.77 crore by the month-end.
As per the comparative statistics of ITR submitting obtainable on the I-T e-filing portal, over 70.34 lakh tax returns had been filed in April-June 2022-23. This quantity surged 93.76 per cent to over 1.36 crore in April-June 2023-24.
The 1 crore ITR submitting milestone was additionally reached 13 days forward on June 26 within the present fiscal, in comparison with July 8 final monetary 12 months.
The earnings tax division has attributed the comparatively early ITR submitting for AY 2023-24 to social media campaigns together with focused e-mail and SMS campaigns to encourage taxpayers to be early filers.
