IT e Filling due date extended up to 31 August 2019

IT e Filling due date extended up to 31 August 2019

F. No. 225/157/2019/ITA.I!

Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes North-Block, ITA-I 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.

In this regard, the Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of its powers conferred nder section 119 of the Income-tax 1 Act'), hereb extends the 'due-date', as prescribed under section 139(1) of the Act, for filing income-tax returns from 31t 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 -Sa (Rajarajeswari R.) Under Secretary to the Government of India

Copy to:

o EMUSU to FM/PS to MOS(F) PS to Finance/Revenue Secretary 1 2 Chairman (CBDT), All Members, CBDT 3 All Pr.CCSIT/CCSIT/Pr.DSGIT/DSGIT 4 All Joint Secretaries/CSIT, CBDT 5 Directors/Deputy Secretaries/Under Secretaries of Central Board of Direct Taxes ADG(Systems)-4 with a request to place the order on official income-tax website 6. 7 CIT (M&TP), Official Spokesperson of CBDT with a request to publicise widely Addl. CIT, Data Base Cell for placing it on irsofficers website The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, IP Estate, New Delhi 10 All Chambers of Commerce 11 5.5cior (Rajarajeswari R.) Under Secretary to the Government of India