More than 6.63 ITRs filed for Assessment year 2021-22

New Delhi: More than 6.63 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed for Assessment Year 2021-22 on the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department till 15th of March this year.  March 15 was the due date for filing of ITRs by Companies and other taxpayers who were required to file Tax Audit Reports. As of 15th March 2022 more than 5.43 lakh, ITRs were filed compared to 4.77 lakh last year on the due date and over 13.84 lakh ITRs were filed in the last 5 days.

Out of the 6.63 crore ITRs filed for Assessment Year 2021-22, 46 percent are ITR-1, 9 percent are ITR-2, 15 percent are ITR-3, 26 percent are ITR-4, 2 percent are ITR-5, ITR-6, and ITR-7. This reflects an increase of over 16.7 lakh ITRs over total filing



of ITRs for Assessment Year 2020-21 till 15th March 2021.

Over 43 percent of these ITRs have been filed using the online ITR form on the portal and the balance have been uploaded using the ITR created from the offline ITR preparation software utilities, including Departmental software.

The Income Tax Department has expressed gratitude to all tax professionals and taxpayers for their support in timely compliances. Taxpayers and tax professionals have been requested to note that the last date of filing a belated return, revised return, linking of Aadhaar and PAN, and compliance to the e-proceedings for assessment etc is 31st of this month.