{"id":302071,"date":"2018-09-02T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T10:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302071"},"modified":"2018-09-02T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T10:48:38","slug":"itrs-filed-till-august-31-registers-71-surge-compared-to-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/itrs-filed-till-august-31-registers-71-surge-compared-to-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ITRs filed till August 31 registers 71% surge compared to last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302072 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/incometax-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/incometax-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/incometax-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/incometax.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>An indication of India moving steadily towards a more tax compliant society has been witnessed as there is a marked improvement in the number of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) filed during FY 2018 (upto 31\/08\/2018, the extended due date of filing) compared to the corresponding period in the preceding year. The total number of ITRs e-filed upto 31\/08\/2018 was\u00a05.42\u00a0crore\u00a0as against 3.17 crore upto 31\/08\/2017, marking an increase of\u00a070.86%. Almost 34.95 lakh returns were uploaded on 31\/08\/2018 itself, being the last date of the extended due date of filing of ITRs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A remarkable increase is seen in the number of ITRs in 2 categories ie ITRs filed by salaried Individuals (ITR-1&amp; 2) as also those availing the benefit of the Presumptive Taxation Scheme (ITR-4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of e-returns of salaried Individual taxpayers filed till 31\/08\/2018 increased to 3.37 crore from 2.19 crore returns filed during the corresponding period of 2017, registering an increase of 1.18 crore returns translating into a growth of almost\u00a054%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A stupendous growth has been witnessed in the number of returns e-filed by persons availing the benefit of Presumptive Tax, with 1.17 crore returns having been filed upto 31st August 2018 compared to 14.93 lakh returns upto 31st August 2017 registering a massive increase of\u00a0681.69%.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An indication of India moving steadily towards a more tax compliant society has been witnessed as there is a marked improvement in the number of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) filed during FY 2018 (upto 31\/08\/2018, the extended due date of filing) compared to the corresponding period in the preceding year. The total number of ITRs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[4589,4591,4590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302073,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302071\/revisions\/302073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}