The Central
Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Tuesday refuted reports in social media about
changes being executed in ITR forms 2 and 3. The income tax department stated that
only the utility software has been updated which is not going to hamper the
filing of returns. Meanwhile, there were reports in social media that the
taxpayers were facing difficulties in efiling
of income tax return in ITR-2 and ITR3 for the financial year 2018-19
due to wide-scale amendments in the ITR form for the AY 2019-20
“No changes
have been made in any of the Income-tax Return (ITR) forms
including ITR-2 and ITR-3 since the notification made on April 1 2019, i.e. on
the 1st day of the Assessment Year 2019-20,” CBDT said.
The income
tax authority has clarified that the software utility for e-filing of all the
ITR forms has been released long back on 2nd May and on 10th May 2019
respectively. However, the software utility update is a dynamic process and is
continuously taken up as per the feedback received from the users/filers to
ease their experience in electronic filing of returns.
Besides
with this, it has further clarified that the updating of utility does not
hamper filing of return as the taxpayers are allowed to file ITR using the
utility which is available at that point of time. Even though the utility is
being updated regularly to provide ease to taxpayers, the returns filed by
using the previous version of utility will continue to be valid. It is
pertinent to state that the updation in the utility of ITR forms is based on
feedback and mainly aimed at easing the compliance burden of the taxpayers by
facilitating easier e-filing. For instance, this year, the facility of
pre-filling of return forms has been provided based on the information
furnished in the TDS statements.
This
facility has been updated in the utility subsequently. This would substantially
reduce the efforts of taxpayers in filling of return forms. It is reiterated
that there are no changes in the notified ITR forms; only the utility has been
updated to facilitate the taxpayers. Therefore, the assertion that numerous
changes have been made in ITR-2
and ITR-3 on July 11, 2019, does not give a correct picture.
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