I-T Dept extends return filing deadline by one day after complaints of portal glitches

ITR Filing 2025 Extended Due Date and Time: The extension came after several taxpayers, tax professionals and chartered accountants on social media platform X raised a series of complaints about glitches in the income tax portal over the last few days.

ITR Filing 2025 Due Date and Time: The Income Tax Department in a late night announcement at 1148 PM IST granted a one-day extension till September 16 to taxpayers to file their income tax returns for Assessment Year 2025-26. The extension came after several taxpayers, tax professionals and chartered accountants on social media platform X raised a series of complaints about glitches in the income tax portal over the last few days.

The complaints ranged from the deadlines of both advance tax and income tax returns coinciding with each other to the portal abruptly logging out the users. Many users also complained about having paid more tax through self assessment but not being able to generate challan as the portal was getting stuck and not allowing a smooth login process. The session would show to be expired for many users, while some complained about not being able to file returns through the online and offline utilities available on the portal.

Despite these issues and the last minute rush, the Income Tax Department recorded filing of over 7.3 crore returns till September 15. This is higher than 7.28 crore returns filed by the deadline of July 31 last year.

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“The due date for filing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) for AY 2025-26, originally due on 31st July 2025, was extended to 15th September 2025. The Central Board of Direct Taxes has decided to further extend the due date for filing these ITRs for AY 2025-26 from 15th September, 2025 to 16th September, 2025,” the Income Tax Department said in a post on X.

The Department also said that the e- filing portal will remain in maintenance mode from 12:00 AM to 02:30 AM on September 16 to enable changes in the utilities.

The extension will apply to income tax returns for individuals and entities who do not need to get their accounts audited.

In May, the Income Tax Department had extended the filing date for income tax returns for assessment year 2025-26 (financial year 2024-25) to September 15 from July 31. Citing “structural and content revisions”, the Income Tax Department had said the changes have “necessitated additional time for system development, integration, and testing of the corresponding utilities”.

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Even though the Income Tax Department had notified income tax returns for the Assessment Year 2025-26 in April-end this year, the utilities to file returns hit a hurdle as the backend work was not completed by Infosys, which is managing the tech platform for the Income Tax Department.

The I-T Department, which functions under the CBDT, had included a provision to file details of long-term capital gains within the ITR-1 and ITR-4 formats this year onwards. Earlier, taxpayers filing ITR-1 had to file the details of capital gains in ITR-2 separately. It had also included more detailed disclosures for foreign income and assets.

The Department had notified ITR-1 Sahaj and ITR-4 Sugam on April 30. ITR-1 can be filed by an individual having income up to Rs 50 lakh and who receives income from salary, one house property, other sources (interest, etc), long-term capital gains under section 112A up to Rs 1.25 lakh, and agricultural income up to Rs 5,000. ITR-4 can be filed by individuals, Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) and firms with total income up to Rs 50 lakh, having income from business and profession, and having long-term capital gains under section 112A up to Rs 1.25 lakh.

Aanchal Magazine

Aanchal Magazine is Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express and reports on the macro economy and fiscal policy, with a special focus on economic science, labour trends, taxation and revenue metrics. With over 13 years of newsroom experience, she has also reported in detail on macroeconomic data such as trends and policy actions related to inflation, GDP growth and fiscal arithmetic. Interested in the history of her homeland, Kashmir, she likes to read about its culture and tradition in her spare time, along with trying to map the journeys of displacement from there. ... Read More

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