Over 34.84 lakh income tax audit reports filed on e-filing portal up to Oct 7: Finance Ministry

The concern ministry connected Wednesday said much than 34.84 lakh audit reports, including astir 34.09 lakh Tax Audit Reports (TARs), person been filed for appraisal twelvemonth 2024-25 connected the e-filing portal till October 7.

The income taxation section had extended the day for filing the audit study from September 30 to October 7.

There is an summation successful the filing of TARs for the AY 2024-25 by astir 4.8 per cent compared to the filings of TARs connected the owed day for AY 2023-24.

"To assistance taxpayers, the section conducted extended outreach programmes done emails, SMSs, webinars, societal media campaigns and messages connected the Income Tax portal to make and rise consciousness among the taxpayers astir filing TARs and different audit forms by the owed date. Various idiosyncratic consciousness videos were uploaded connected the Income Tax portal to supply guidance," the ministry said successful a release.

It further said that these concerted efforts person been adjuvant to taxpayers and taxation professionals successful timely compliance successful filing TARs.

According to the concern ministry, the e-filing Helpdesk squad handled astir 1.23 lakh queries from taxpayers during September and October 2024, proactively supporting them passim the filing period.

The squad assisted taxpayers and taxation professionals successful resolving complexities and facilitated the creaseless submission of audit forms.

Helpdesk enactment was provided done inbound calls, outbound calls, unrecorded chats, WebEx, and co-browsing sessions. The squad besides supported the solution of queries received connected the department's X grip done Online Response Management (ORM) and assisted them connected assorted issues connected a adjacent real-time basis.