Extend Due Date of filing Income Tax Return & TAR for F.Y 2020-21 till 31st Mar 2022

District Taxation Bar Association has requested Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman (Hon’ble Finance Minister)  to to extends the due dates for filing income tax returns and submitting tax audit report for FY 2020-21 (AY 2021-22) till 31st Mar 2022

District Taxation Bar Association requests your worthy self to extend the time for filing of all forms & returns for this year to 31st March 2022 without any penal actions.

Many problems, which are being faced by the stakeholders besides the issue of late functioning of the portal, which has resulted in piling of work with professionals and other stake holders requiring time to smoothly file the data with the Government and an Extension till the end of Financial Year i.e.31/03/2022, would give a sense of cooperation.

Below is a copy of the Representation Submitted :

Hon’ble Smt Nirmala Sitharaman Ji
Union Minister of Finance,
Ministry of Finance,
Govt. of India,
North Block. NEW DELHI – 110001

Sub: Representation regarding Extension of Due Dates.

At the outset, we would like to appreciate the initiatives taken by the Worthy Government with the launch of new Income Tax Portal for providing better services to the Tax payers. We also understand that any such change takes time to stabilize the smooth functioning of the same. With the launch of new Income Tax Portal in June 2021, many glitches noticed in its working have been removed, which has led to filing of quite a good number of Income Tax Returns and Forms. However, if the filing data is analyzed, we find that most of the ITRs filed are of Assesses who have Income from Salary, Other Sources etc. as the Income Tax Returns for Companies, Business Income, TAR etc. are not getting through smoothly due to certain technical issues, which still persist in the portal and the filings getting delayed and taking considerable time and energy of the Assesses and Professionals.

To mitigate the hardships of the Assesses and the Professionals, we request your worthy self to extend the time for filling of all forms & returns for this year to 31st March 2022 without any penal actions as the same would go a long way in stabilizing the portal and would also allow the stakeholders to have a better feel of the portal. The following points further vouch for the above requested extension: –

1. In case ITR-6 for Companies Return, the companies opted for concessional Tax u/S115BAA or 15BAB last year, The Portal is not allowing the filing of ITR and is asking for filing of Form10-IC again but not allowing its filing.

2. The Portal is not allowing filing Form 10-IE in many cases and showing unknown r

3. The non-working of DSC functionality in many cases.

4. The wrong Schema for TAR, which is getting updated on daily basis and resulting in wrong data getting reflected in already filed TARs.

5. The portal is not allowing the filling of Forms for New Registration of Trusts and societies and thus denying filing of ITR-7 For

6. The threat posed by Omicron Virus has further adversely affecting the normal functioning of the offices of the professionals.

7. Still many times even as of date the Site stops working randomly.

8. These are some of the many problems, which are being faced by the stakeholders besides the issue of late functioning of portal, which has resulted in piling of work with professionals and other stake holders requiring time to smoothly file the data with the Government and an Extension till the end of Financial Year i.e.31/03/2022, would give a sense of cooperation and a feeling that the Government and other stakeholders are moving together in making the new initiative of the government a success.

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