After extending the due date of filing an Income Tax Return (ITR) by months in the last two assessment years – mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the Income Tax Department this time is trying to put things in place by sticking to the original due date of July 31, 2022, even as the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is closely monitoring the ground situation before taking any decision on ITR due date extension.
While the CBDT has found no merit in the argument that a section of taxpayers is confused as the due date of filing a return for the current Assessment Year (AY 2022-23) comes within seven months of the extended due date of the last year (AY 2021-22), which was extended till December 31, 2021, the Department may consider a date extension after a problem in ITR-2 has been reported to it.
The problem surfaced when the attempts to validate ITR-2 of a senior citizen taxpayer – drawing regular income through systematic withdrawal plan (SWP) in debt-oriented mutual fund (MF) schemes along with investments in senior citizen schemes – failed before submission of the return online on the income tax portal on July 30, 2022.
While the validation errors on the Tax Paid page was resolved, those on the Schedule Capital Gain page were not. Despite entering quarter-wise information on short-term capital gains on the sale of debt funds repeatedly in Section F of the page (information about accrual/receipt of capital gain) the online tax filing utility failed to add the figures to calculate the total gains to match with the figures in the Schedule BFLA page.
The issue was brought to the notice of CBDT at around 11.30 pm, following which, the CPC tried to guide the taxpayer through an online meeting around midnight, but the link to join the meeting became inactive by the time the required app was installed.
The attempts to communicate with the CPC team failed after the cancellation of the online meeting.
As the problem was not solved even on the morning of July 31, 2022, which is incidentally the due date for filing returns, it was expected that the government would extend the due date to provide more time for taxpayers to file their returns after the issue gets resolved.
The issue was, however, resolved later in the day through step-by-step guidance by CPC officials through an online meet, in which many other taxpayers were also present to get their problems solved.
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