Income Tax Return Last Date 31st December 2021
Income tax Act of India

Income Tax Return Last Date 31st December 2021

As per the guidelines from the CBDT, if an individual taxpayer misses the income tax return (ITR) filing deadline of December 31, 2021, then they will have to pay a late fee and file the belated ITR. From this year onwards, the deadline for filing the belated ITR is December 31.

Penalty for late filing of income tax return:

If you file your ITR after the deadline, then a late filing fee will be levied. Till last year, if a taxpayer missed the ITR filing deadline, the maximum penalty he/she would have had to pay was Rs 10, 000. With effect from FY 2020-21, a person filing belated ITR will have to pay a penalty of up to Rs 5,000.

There is a relief given to small taxpayers — the IT department has stated that if the total income does not exceed Rs 5 lakh, the maximum penalty levied for delay will be Rs 1000.

ITR filling Due Dates for FY 2020-21 (AY 2021-22)

  • ITR filing by taxpayers not covered under audit is 31st Dec 21
  • ITR filing for tax audit cases is 15th Feb 22 
  • ITR filing for transfer pricing is 28th Feb 22
  • ITR filing of belated or revised return for FY 20-21 is 31st March 22

Furnishing audit report:

  • Due date to furnish the audit report is extended to 15th Jan 22
  • Due date to furnish the audit report for transfer pricing cases is extended to 31st Jan 22

New Annual Information Statement

The new AIS includes taxpayer’s information on interest income from savings account, recurring and fixed deposits, income from dividend, securities transactions including mutual funds, and remittances from abroad and more. To ease ITR filing, AIS also provides a simplified Taxpayer Information Summary (TIS), which shows the aggregated value for taxpayers.

Please be sure that your AIS information while filing ITR for this year.

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Prateek Jain (CDCS,CAIIB)

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3y

I was expecting an extension in due date. However there is no such notification published till now.

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Good information thanks 😊👍

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Neetu Jain, all the best from Naifa Maruf Foundation

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I fail to understand why so much pressure is created for return filing. Rather than making this process a pleasant one it is one which makes people lose sleep. We actually need more tax payer friendly process for filing return more so when tax payers have already paid their taxes by way of TDS/TCS/ Advance tax / self assessment tax... Getting repeated messages and reminders is damm irritating and nothing short of harrasment..

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