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<strong>Odisha Tax Advocates Association sends legal notice to CBDT demanding ITR due date extension</strong>

All Odisha Tax Advocates Association has sent a legal notice to the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/central-board-of-direct-taxes/">Central Board of Direct Taxes [CBDT]</a> for refusing to extend the due date of filing returns of the assessees of Odisha for the Assessment Year: 2021-2022 after 31/12/2021 and imposing late filing fee u/s. 234F of the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/income-tax-act-1961/">I.T.Act, 1961</a> in spite of many technical glitches in the new portal of the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/income-tax-department/">Income Tax Department</a>.

<strong>The same is given below for your kind reference:</strong>

To
Shri J.B. Mohapatra, IRS
Hon'ble Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes,
North Block, New Delhi-110001

Sub:- Legal Notice on behalf of All Odisha Tax Advocates Association, Regd. Office:-CTBA Centre, Sector-2, CDA, Markat Nagar, Cuttack-753014 represented through its General Secretary Shri Bibekananda Mohanti for refusing to extend the due date of filing returns of the assessees of Odisha for the Assessment Year:2021-2022 after 31/12/2021 and imposing late filing fee u/s.234F of the I.T.Act,1961 in spite of many technical glitches in the new portal of the Income Tax Department.

Ref:- Our request letter dated-27/12/2021 to extend due date and not to impose late filing fee.

Respected Sir,

In inviting a reference to the subject cited above we the members of All Odisha Tax Advocates Association, a premier State level Association of Tax Advocates of Odisha, want to draw your immediate attention as under:-

01. That as per Circular No.17 of the CBDT dated:-09/09/2021 the due date for filing of Income Tax returns of the assessees was extended to 31/12/2021 and submission of <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/tax-audit-report/">Tax Audit Reports</a> to 15/01/2022 considering the difficulties of the assessees due to the second surge of pandemic COVID-19 and glitches in the new Income Tax portal.

02. That although the old portal of the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/income-tax-department/">Income Tax Department</a> was working flawlessly and it was user-friendly, but the Union Finance Ministry entrusted M/s Infosys Ltd to develop the new portal after the beginning of the Assessment Year: 2021-2022.

03. That as per earlier directions of the Hon'ble High Courts <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/cbdt/">CBDT</a> failed to upload schema of the returns forms in the portal in time.

04. That the new portal has been so designed that it takes maximum time to fill up the return ms and upload the same. In certain occasions, the portal was hanged in between filling TR forms, which caused inconveniences to the assessees for which the assessees, as well as Tax Professionals, faced a lot of difficulties in filing those forms by 31/12/2021.

05. That in the request letter dated-27/12/2021 the aforesaid Association has raised other points of sufferings of the assessees of Odisha viz:- facing frequent cyclones, rain due to low pressure, poor internet and electricity facility, assessees as well as professionals suffering from COVID-19, non-cooperation from banks in getting transaction statements etc.

06. That before filing the return of income it takes more time to verify the Form No.26-AS, AIS and TIS etc. Pertinent to mention here that in most of the cases, the AIS data were not made available to be downloaded due to server issues. Further, in most of the cases, there is a lot of mismatch in the information reported in TIS as compared to the actual details and the same reported in Form No.26AS as well. This has resulted an additional burden on the taxpayers to reconcile the differences before filing the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/itr/">ITRs</a> in order to ensure that there would be no further notices, unwarranted adjustments u/s.143(1) of the Act and unnecessary hassles post filing of the Income Tax Returns.

07. That the technical glitches in the new portal was the top most woo of the Tax Professionals as well as assesssees to file their return of income in time.

08. That the <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/government/">Government</a> has no kiosks or helpdesks etc. to facilitate the assessees to file their return of income and at the same time the assessees were also not educated by the Government to file their return of income online.

09. That the return forms have been made so complicated that it took hours to fill up the same by the Tax Professionals. The condition was even more dreadful in cases of the assesses who wanted to file their own ITRs.

10. That the Infosys Ltd has developed the portal in such a new design so that at times the screen page vanishes without any reason and the technical glitches are that it cannot be described in words.

11. That the assessees from various parts of India including the State of Odisha requested your Honour to extend the due date in order to file the returns of income of the assessees within time allowed under the statute, but the same were not accepted.

12. That to the utter surprise, on the eve of 31st December, 2021, the Learned Principal Secretary (Revenue), Union Ministry of Finance in a Press Meet. has intimated the tax payer community that time limit for filing the ITRs would not be extended.

13. That many assessees have submitted some of the papers with the Tax Professionals but their returns could not be filed in time fo_r which the said Professionals will be paying late filing fee (u/s. 234F) to the Government on behalf of the assessees.

14. That there is an urgent need to extend the dates of filling Returns and the Tax Audit Reports to a suitable date so as to allow reasonable time for the Tax Payers and Professionals to comply with the mandatory statutory compliances.

15. That it is needless to mention here that, the levy of late filing fees on the assessees st u/s. 234F needs to be postponed till 31 March 2022 in the above circumstances.

Thus being aggrieved the All Odisha Tax Advocates Association is going to file a Public Interest Litigation petition before the Hon'ble <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/orissa-high-court/">High Court of Orissa</a> in order to safeguard the interest of the assessees as well as the Tax Professionals of Odisha.

Please take notice that after receipt of this letter if your good office doesn't extend the due date for filing of <a href="https://studycafe.in/tag/income-tax-return/">Income Tax Returns</a> as well as Tax Audit Reports to 31/03/2022, then our Association would be constrained to file PIL in the Hon'ble High Court of Orissa with a prayer to direct you to extend the due date for filing of return and Tax Audit Reports for the Assessment Year: 2021-2022 and return back the late filing fees collected u/s.234F of the Act. The entire cost of litigation would also be borne by you.

Yours faithfully,
For &amp; on behalf of
All Odisha Tax Advocates Association

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