 "More than one crore taxpayers file income tax e-returns")
New Delhi:The e-filing of income tax returnshas crossed the one crore mark with the maximum of suchfilings done by the salaried class of taxpayers.
In a latest data released by the Central Processing Centre(CPC) of the I-T department based in Bangalore, a total of1,03,21,775 e-returns were filed by taxpayers till July 31,which is quite less than the over 2 crore e-filing numbersfiled during the financial year 2012-13.The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), theadministrative authority of the Income Tax department, hasrecently enhanced the last date for filing of I-T returns,both manual and e-filed, to August 5 for the 2013-14 fiscal.
A total of 57,81,252 people under the salaried class filedtheir e-returns till July 31 through the Internet which isalso less than the over 64 lakh figure filed by salariedtaxpayers during the same period last year.
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“The Income Tax department and the CBDT are aiming toencourage more and more taxpayers to file online returns.These figures are expected to rise drastically by August 5,” asenior I-T officer said.
The department’s web based servers, according to theofficial data, received a peak rate of 2,303 returns perminute during the current filing spree even as the tax returnfiling season ends tomorrow.
A special team of the department is continuouslymonitoring the web portals and information technologyparameters of the official e-filing website of the I-Tdepartment– https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.
Electronic filing has been made mandatory for assesseeshaving net taxable above Rs five lakh from this year.
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