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IT returns deadline extended till Aug 5

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The income tax (IT) department on Monday extended the deadline for e filing of returns by five days, till August 5, after complaints were received that assessees were not able to submit returns.
The department had earlier ruled out extending the deadline for filing returns.
The department also eased the timeframe for linking permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar by August 30. Assessees can for now simply quote their Aadhaar number or enrolment ID. “In view of the difficulties faced by taxpayers, date for efiling of income tax returns for FY 2016-17 has been extended to August 5, 2017,” the department tweeted.
Last minute inundation and heavy traffic on the website of the efiling portal led to the extension.
Assessees, particularly those with some discrepancies in their name or year of birth, or any other data on their Aadhaar and PAN cards, were not able to submit returns.
Besides, it was reported the site was down forawhile. “Some people for whom PAN and Aadhaar data was not matching had problems and could not file returns,” Neeru Ahuja of Deloitte and Haskins said.
The department said there were some complaints that the taxpayers were not being able to log on to the efiling website or link their Aadhaar with PAN because their names on permanent account number and Aadhaar databases were not matching.
“While technical snags have been removed, the main reason for the login failure was because of lastminute rush and panic,” it said.
To ease out the panic situation, the department said it would be sufficient as of now to quote the Aadhaar or acknowledgement number for having applied for Aadhaar for the filing of ereturns.
The actual linking of PAN with Aadhaar can be done subsequently, any time before August 31, 2017, it said. “However, the returns will not be processed until the linkage of Aadhaar with PAN is done,” it added.
Electronic filing of income tax returns for 2016- 17 up to June grew 18 per cent.
The Business standard, New Delhi, 01st August 2017

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