Less Than 40% ITRs Processed: Govt Extends Filing Deadline to September 15

The Finance Ministry has extended the due date for filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) for the assessment year 2025-26 to September 15, 2025 providing everyone an extra 46 days after the original cut-off of July 31. This year, the Income Tax Department rolled out the Excel utilities for ITR-1 and ITR-4 on May 29 nearly two months later than usual. Utilities for other ITR forms (ITR-1 to ITR-6) have since been released. But the utility for ITR-7 is still pending.

The extension comes in reply to delays in return processing and the recent expand of updated ITR filing utilities.

Less Than 40% Returns Processed

Since filing started on May 29, around 3.29 crore returns have been submitted, with 3.19 crore verified. But, only 1.13 crore returns less than 40% of the total filed, have been processed by the government till now, even after three months.

Govt Extended the ITR filing deadline to September 15

The Finance Ministry on May 27 released the extended ITR deadline. She added that taxpayers who do not need their accounts to be audited will have time till September 15 to file their income tax return for the AY 2025-26. Whereas the original date was July 31.

Ministry added that the decision was taken considering the time required for system readiness.

What do you mean by ‘ITR Utility’?

Income Tax applies to the income earned by an individual or a body corporate in a specific financial year. Income is charged by the Government of India, as the revenue generated from the tax collected is the main source of funds for the government for carrying out the development activities throughout the country. There are different ways for filing of income tax returns with the income tax department. The following are the ways:

• Taxpayers can file Income tax returns online or
• Taxpayers can file Income tax through an offline channel.