Due Date of Income Tax return for AY 2019-20 Extended

CBDT has issued circular to extend the due date for filing Income tax return for the assessment year 2019-20 from 31.07.19 to 31.08.19 for the tax payers who were liable to file their income tax return by 31st July 2019.

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 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’