Large Number of Taxpayers Receive Pending Income Tax Refunds in Two Days, Say CAs

In the last two days, a significant number of taxpayers have received their tax refunds for the financial year 2024-25, according to the experts. Many of these refund claims were high-value.

Chartered Accountant (CA) named Himank Singla, in his post on platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), has shared that a large number of taxpayers received their income tax refunds last night and this morning. His words, “A large number of income tax refunds have been issued yesterday night and this morning! Did you get your income tax refund?”

A large number of Income Tax Refunds have been issued yesterday night and today morning! 😍

Did you get your Income Tax Refund ?

— CA Himank Singla (@CAHimankSingla) February 13, 2026

Another user at platform ‘X’ named Pratibha Goyal said that she has highlighted that several tax refunds were issued yesterday to her firm as well.

Many Tax Refunds were issued yesterday!

I got for my firm as well. Did you get yours?

— Pratibha Goyal (@PratibhaGoyal) February 13, 2026

The Income Tax Department has also recently released data for direct tax collection for the financial year 2025-26 (as of February 10, 2026). The data also includes the amount of tax refunds released this FY 2024-25.

Data on Gross Direct Tax Collections, Refunds and Net Direct Tax Collections for FY 2025-26 as on 10.02.2026 has been released.

The data is available on the national website of Income Tax Department at the following link:https://t.co/RD8DcguCBC pic.twitter.com/sOZKb69wup

— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) February 11, 2026

In answer to an unstarred question asked by Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash, Pankaj Chaudhary (Ministry of Finance, Minister of State) gave the key reasons behind the delay in income tax refund release this year, especially for senior citizens. Prakash also asked for disclosing data about how many refunds that are more than 90 days old are pending with the Income Tax (I-T) Department as of January 31, 2026.

Pankaj Chaudhary responded that the tax refunds are delayed due to the Central Board of Direct Taxes’ (CBDT) NUDGE (Non-intrusive Usage of Data to Guide and Enable) campaign. Through the said campaign, taxpayers were sent large-scale messages flagging discrepancies discovered in their returns and advised to revise their initially filed returns.

Chaudhary said, “Under these campaigns, communications are sent to select taxpayers to review and revise/update their ITRs already filed. The taxpayers are selected on the basis of advanced risk analysis, identifying incorrect or non-reporting of assets or income, or excess claims of deductions or exemptions in their ITRs.”

Disclosing the data, Chaudhary stated that a total of 87,962,234 returns were furnished for AY 2025-26 by the taxpayers as of February 4, 2026, and a total of 2,464,044 returns are pending for processing for over 90 days.