Govt extends date for filing of ITR up to Aug 5, 2017

New Delhi: Taking the technical glitches in filing the returns into account, the Government has extended the date for filing of Income Tax Returns (ITS) for 5 days up to August 5, 2017.
After getting a lot of complaints from various part of the country, the Government today said that in order to facilitate the e-filing of the returns, it has decided to give extension of five days for e-filing of the returns.
Now, the returns can be filed up to 5th August, 2017.
Similarly, for the purpose of e-filing return, it would be sufficient as of now to quote Aadhaar or acknowledgement number for having applied for Aadhaar in e-filing website.
The actual linking of PAN with Aadhaar can be done subsequently, but any time before 31st August, 2017.