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.... Continue reading
