JB Mohapatra, Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) informed that all the glitches and hiccups with regard to the filing of income tax returns have been resolved.
Inaugurating the Taxpayers' Lounge at IITF, 2021 in Delhi, the chairman said that around 2.5 crore ITR has been filed and by December, the numbers are expected to go up to 4 crores.
Taxpayers can now access the new Annual Information Statement (AIS) along with additional categories of information such as interest, dividends, securities and MF transactions, and remittances from abroad, on the e-filing portal.
Various activities like assistance in applying for PAN or e-PAN, Aadhaar-PAN linking and PAN related queries, assistance in e-filing and form 26AS (tax-credit) related queries and providing taxpayer information Series brochures on various topics are available both in e-format and paper format at taxpayers’ lounge.
In October, the IT department expanded the list of high-value financial transactions, which would be available to taxpayers in their Form 26AS by including details of mutual fund (MF) purchases, foreign remittances, as well as information in ITRs of other taxpayers.
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