Why Income Tax due Date needs to be extended

CA Aakarsh Jain | Last updated: 24 December 2021

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Several critical issues are hindering taxpayers from filing their income tax returns on time, prompting calls for an extension of the due date. These problems include difficulties in downloading Annual Information Statements (AIS) and Taxpayer Information Summaries (TIS), with the portal often displaying 'YOUR DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE'. Additionally, filing returns for deceased assessees presents significant challenges, as representative assessees cannot be added to the portal, and requests to add legal heirs are sometimes rejected due to date discrepancies.

Few of the problems listed out are as below which calls for immediate resolution or for extension of the return filing dates.

1. Problem in downloading AIS / TIS

Apart from recently introduced AIS/ TIS near the last dates, increasing the burden of reconciliations, there has been problems in downloading AIS. Downloading of AIS has been witnessed sometimes as very user friendly and sometimes as non-friendly.

Extend Income Tax Due Date: Why It s Needed

In few of the cases, following message / screenshot props up as
YOUR DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE

2. How to file ITR of deceased assessee's

This has been a major concern wherein the Representative assessee cannot be added in the income tax portal of the legal heir/ representative assessee.

In few cases, the application or the request to add legal heir has been rejected with the reason that the date of death does not match with the date mentioned on the death certificate.

3. Name of deceased not showing in the earmarked cell after mentioning of PAN of the deceased

The portal is not picking the name of the deceased against the PAN mentioned of the deceased while adding the legal representative request.

4. Errors in filing Form 10IE

In many instances, there have been errors in filing form 10IE since the portal is not accepting such.

5. Option to Revise 3CB-3CD is not yet available

6. ITR of some other person reflected in the login of some other individual having different name and PAN.

7. OTPs are still not available at the right time and are received after their expiry and sometimes, in the late hours; increasing the work pendencies.

8. Problems in filing Form 29B and uploading the form.