Income Tax Return Filing Dates Extended to 7th September (All Taxpayers)

Last date for filing Income Tax Return for AY 2015-2016 was extended earlier to 31st August from 31st July 2015. After the end of due date CBDT has been receiving a lot of representations from various groups regarding hardships faced in filing of Income Tax Returns. The dates were Increased for Gujarat recently but nothing was done for Other states taxpayers. After a lot of representations CBDT has finally increased the due date for filing the Income Tax Returns for AY 2015-2016 to 7th September, 2015.

How to Claim Income Tax Refund of Earlier Years

In India, most of us still file Income Tax Returns just to claim refunds of Taxes which are deducted by the payer of our Income i.e. Banks, Governments, Insurance Companies etc or taxes paid extra by us either at the time of Self Assessment or Advance. These taxes are refunded after filing of Income Tax returns.Now most of us even being well educated forget to file the Income Tax return or we don't have knowledge of the process to get the Income Tax refund. Many of the cases are still pending and there are a lot of persons who have refund of Lakhs of rupees but are not being able to get the refund due to non filing of Income Tax returns.

10 Benefits of Efiling Income Tax Returns

Income Tax Efiling is a very common term during this part of the year i.e. June-July, after the months of Feb-March or September. Many of us always had a question as to what is Income Tax Efiling and why are we hearing the word Efiling Income Tax more and more these days. In a laymans terms Income Tax Efiling is nothing but Electronic filing of Income Tax returns which are filed every year. As most of us know that Income Tax returns are to be mandatory filed by all the persons having total income exceeding the income not chargeable to tax.(Sec 139 of Income Tax Act, 1961).