{"id":5733,"date":"2019-09-02T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:34:34","slug":"income-tax-department-made-history-with-a-quantum-jump-in-the-e-filing-of-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/income-tax-department-made-history-with-a-quantum-jump-in-the-e-filing-of-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Income Tax department made history with a quantum jump in the e-filing of Income"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Income Tax department has made history with a quantum jump in the e-filing of Income\u2013Tax Returns (ITRs) with an all time high record of 49 lakh 29 thousand and 121 ITRs filed in a single day on 31st August 2019. This has perhaps created a history as the tax administration nowhere in the world has achieved such huge online e-filing ITRs in a single day and that too so smoothly; with the IT department actively interacting with taxpayers on social media to help them resolve their grievances and e-filing related queries and getting accolades in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today releasing the\ndata on e-filing of ITRs for which last date of submission was 31st August 2019\nsaid that this is a remarkable achievement as taxpayers are experiencing a\nwhole new facet of the I-T department which is not only taxpayers\u2019 friendly but\nalso is of a facilitator providing informational assistance with the pre-filled\nforms and handholding e-filers besides being proactively responsive on social\nmedia to help and guide taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBDT said that setting new records in e-filing on 31st Aug\n2019, the peak filing rate per second was at 196 ITRs and peak filing rate per\nminute was at 7447 ITRs while peak filing rate per hour was at 3,87,571 ITRs.\nThe Information Security team of IT department thwarted over 2205 malicious\nattacks on the website aimed at disrupting services in the peak period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBDT said that as per the data, at TRACES there were\n42,75,913 – 26AS views on 31st Aug 2019 as compared to highest of 29,94,406 of\nlast year, i.e., almost 43% increase as compared to last year peak views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBDT said that out of the 5.65 Cr ITRs filed so far, 3.61 Cr\nITRs have been verified. A large number of taxpayers about 2.86 Cr (79%) have\nopted for e-verification, mostly using Aadhaar OTP. The I-T Department intends\nto carry out campaigns to increase awareness about e-verification of ITRs where\nverification is still pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBDT further said that taxpayers\u2019 grievances on e-Nivaran,\nemail and on call centre were responded immediately with a turnaround time for\ntwitter being 4 hrs on queries related to e-filing. CBDT also issued two\ncirculars to clarify issues raised by taxpayers, ensuring that taxpayer\nanxieties were allayed. Social media using Twitter was effectively used to\ncounter fake messages regarding extension of date apart from responding to\ntaxpayers\u2019 queries. Taxpayers would also be educated about the need for linking\ntheir bank account with PAN to ensure direct credit of refund to taxpayer bank\naccount through ECS and the requirement for linking PAN with Aadhaar by 30th\nSeptember 2019. The department was able to effectively counter all perceptions\nabout speed and performance of the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to CBDT, from the last week of July, the twitter\nhandle of the Income Tax Department, @IncomeTaxIndia was integrated to a\nlanding page to obtain details of taxpayers having last minute grievances. A\nback end team comprising of helpdesk resources from CPC ITR, E-filing, CPC TDS,\nPAN, Directorate of Systems was assembled to provide responses within 24 hrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Income Tax department has made history with a quantum jump in the e-filing of Income\u2013Tax Returns (ITRs) with an all time high record of 49 lakh 29 thousand and 121 ITRs filed in a single day on 31st August 2019. This has perhaps created a history as the tax administration nowhere in the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-income-tax-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}