CBDT extends due date of 31st July 2019 for filing ITR to 31.08.2019-Download CBDT Order

CBDT extends due date of 31st July 2019 for filing ITR to 31.08.2019. The due date of 31st July is primarily meant for salaried emplaoyee and non audit cases.

CBDT has finally extended the due date of 31.07.2019 for filing the income tax return (ITR) by salaried employees to 31.08.2019.

It was long anticipated that CBDT shall be passing an order u/s 119 for extension of the due dates.

The extension of the due date was inevitable in view of the recent extension made to the due dates for furnishing Form 16 to employees by the employers.

The order of extension is as under:

F. No. 225/157/2019/ITA.II
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Direct Taxes
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North-Block, ITA-II Division
New Delhi, the 23rd of July, 2019

Order under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961

The  ‘due-date’  for  filing  income-tax  returns  for  Assessment Year 2019-20 is 31.07.2019 for certain categories of taxpayers. It has been reported that some of the taxpayers are facing difficulties in filing their income- tax returns due to various reasons including extension of due date for issue of Form 16 for the Assessment-Year 2019-20.

2. In this regard, the Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of its powers conferred under section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (‘Act’), hereby extends the ‘due-date’, as prescribed under section 139(1) of the Act, for filing income-tax returns from 31st July, 2019 to 31st August, 2019 in cases of all taxpayers who are liable to file their income-tax returns by the said ‘due-date’.

Sd/

(Rajarajeswari R.)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Copy to:-

1. PS to F.M./OSD to FM/PS to MOS(F)
2. PS to Finance/Revenue Secretary
3. . Chairman (CBDT), All Members, CBDT
4. All CCsIT/CCsIT/Pr. DsGIT/DsGIT
5. All Joint Secretaries/CsIT, CBDT

6. Directors/Deputy Secretaries/Under Secretaries of Central Board of Direct Taxes
7. ADG(Systems)-4 with a request to place the order on official income-tax website
8. CIT (M&TP), Official Spokesperson of CBDT with a request to publicise widely
9. Addl. CIT, Data Base Cell for placing it on irsofficers website
10. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, IP Estate, New Delhi
11. All Chambers of Commerce

Sd/
(Rajrajeswari R.)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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