It is requested that The chartered accountants are not in a position to complete audits under Income Tax Act and meet the specified timelines for furnishing of Tax Audit Report which is falling at the end of September 2019 Therefore extension of at least two months of Due Date for filing TAR, ITR to 30th November 2019 is been requested.
AN OPEN LETTER TO UNION MINISTER OF FINANCE FOR TAR EXTENSION
To,
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Hon. Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
Government of India
North Block
New Delhi
SUBJECT: MEMORANDUM SEEKING EXTENSION OF DUE DATE FOR TAX AUDIT REPORT & INCOME TAX RETURNS
Hon’ble Madam,
ICAI_CIRC_MEERUT_CA, an online yahoo group is PAN India professional group of Chartered Accountants, having a membership of 25000 and in actively participating for the welfare of Chartered Accountants and always represented before various regulatory authorities to resolve the professional problems faced by chartered accountants and the business community. We have already written to your good selves many a time populating issues and possible solutions.
First of all, we would like to congratulate the revolutionary decisions pronounced by you today at Goa in corporate taxes. You have created a history by your confident announcements and signals of your confidence have already reached to the desired level and surely will be helpful in dealing with the on-going economic scenario and possible resolutions.
In the year 2019, CBDT already extended the date for filing Income Tax Returns for those assessees whose accounts are not required to be audited for a month without levy of any interest till 31st August 2019.
The Tax Audit report is required to be furnished to the Department within the prescribed due date which at present, is 30th September 2019 For non-submission / delayed submission of the above report, a penalty under section 271B of the Act may be levied at the rate of ½ % of turnover etc. (up to the maximum of Rs. 1, 50,000/-). We are presenting before your good selves the difficulties and hardship faced by Chartered Accountants in completing their assignments in time. Such as :
1. Lessen time is available for Tax Audits & other audits to be completed till 30th September 2019. The residual period of 30 days is not sufficient to complete the audits. This is because of a reason of the extension of the date for filing Income Tax Returns by those assessees whose accounts are not required to be audited for a month without levy of any interest till 31st August 2019.
2. An extension is requested in view of enormous delay on part of the department to provide IT forms preparation software, Dynamic amendment of Return Preparation Utility, TDS details and extension for filing ITRs to the non-audited assessee. The due date for filing TDS returns in respect of salary payments was extended up to 30.06.2019 and the due date for issue of form no 16 by tax deductor was extended up to 10.07.2019 and in many cases form no 16 and form no 26AS is not yet updated. As you are aware filing ITRs without matching with 26AS results into defective notice from the CPC.
3. There is a nature’s fury across India severely affecting the normal life of the pupil and business community in particular. As you are aware that due to the heavy rains and flooding positions throughout the country and in particular the Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Himachal and Karnataka. There were severe and destructive rains and floods. The impact of floods in states ultimately results in paralysing business activity across India. This impact should be kept in mind while assessing the situation and allowing the extension of dates.
4. Almost every year demand is raised by Tax Payers / CAs etc. for extension of the above due date. Chartered Accountants always took lead in challenging you for extension of Tax Audit Dates. Many quarters feel that it’s the FICCI/Chamber of Commerce etc. to go take a legal battle with you but the Tax Audit is a matter between auditors and the department. Section 44AB gives the provisions relating to the class of taxpayers who are required to get their accounts audited to ensure that the books of account and other records are properly maintained and such books of accounts reflect the income of the taxpayer and claims for deduction correctly. It is also to check fraudulent practices if any and such provision facilitates authorities to see the ready-made information and ultimately save the considerable time of Assessing Officers in carrying out routine verifications. This is a direct work to be performed by the chartered accountants for the department for executing the audits & uploading the same in digital form directly to your site. Their role cannot be ignored.
5. Rationalise the on-going penalty u/s 271B is the solution to get rid of this year to year legal tussle among the Assessee, Professionals and CBDT, There is a simple solution to overcome the above problem i.e the penalty provisions should be rationalized and the penalty amount should be linked with the number of days of delay, say for example Rs. 200/500/1000/- per day of delay. This provision will directly hit the present penalty provision of a sum equal to one-half per cent of the total sales, turnover or gross receipts, as the case may be, in business, or of the gross receipts in profession, in such previous year or years or a sum of one hundred fifty thousand rupees, whichever is less. Such rationalisation shall scrap the need to do the extension of a due date, therefore; there may not be a loss of revenue in the form of a waiver of interest U/s. 234A, the delayed collection of taxes etc. Rather, there may be the increase in revenue because many taxpayers may opt to avail some more time for proper accounting and auditing, by paying the above slight amount of penalty as per their affordability.
Due to above mentioned reasons, The chartered accountants are not in a position to complete audits under Income Tax Act and meet the specified timelines for furnishing of Tax Audit Report which is falling at the end of September 2019 and further in this hour of severity it would be inhumane and unjust to force assessee until their livelihood returns to normalcy.
Therefore we request an extension of at least two months of Due Date for filing TAR, ITR to 30th November 2019.
Sincerely yours,
CA Amresh Vashisht
Moderator & Owner, ICAI_CIRC_MEERUT_CA
Ex-National Council Member, CA Cell, BJP, New Delhi
CC; The Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes
New Delhi
Author Bio
The due of TAR and ITR filing should not be extended by the Honorable Finance Minister. However, I will not oppose the extension of due dates this time. However, in future any attempt to get the due dates extended will be opposed tooth and nail and I have very strong reasons for the same.
Congratulations to the Chartered Accountant fraternity for the extension of TAR & ITR from 30th September 2019 to 31st October 2019
Humbly request Madam to extend the due date to 30th November, 2019.its a genuine request for extention please do the needful..
Respected mam pls extend the due date of audit 30 Sep 19 to 30 Nov 19
dear extension needed very much sir. see sir one fake notification has come extended till 15.10.2019 we request them not to joke at this time we are in very much tension of this work load. Clients are coming now and tension started we are working till late night but not completing the task. Request not to message this type of fake notifications. we need till 30.11.2019 or 15.11.2019.
Announce it early and give relief to all concerned.
Extend Due Date of Tax Audit Reports & Income Tax Returns up to 30.11.2019
Resp Madam, Please Extend due date up to 30/11/2019
Respected mam pls extend the due date of audit 30 Sep 19 to 30 Nov 19
Respected mam pls extend the due date of audit 30 Sep 19 to 30 Nov 19
extension is sought on genuine grounds and known causes.Nature’s fury has hampered the professional work. Act of God is there. Hope Madam FM will certainly see the reasoning and extend her helping hand to Professionals wing also, as she has done to
business community to recoup the economy.
Extension in due date of filling of Tax Audit report needed and announcement for the same should be as early as possible otherwise last minute extension will result in medicine after death to patient…..
A Humble request for people who are requesting extension of time for TAR for one month… Please ask for two months… Specially due to festival which will be in October month.. 10 days of navratri and 5-7 days of Diwali, where many staffs and even assesees are not available.. And we too are human being and have family and school holidays are in the same period where we already have some plans for family.. If only one month is extended then we wont be able to give time to family and even staffs wont come during festival. Here in mumbai many assessees close their business for 5-7 days during diwali so we cant do our work smoothly.
So please request to support for two month time extension.
THANKS SIR, FOR YOUR REQUEST FOR EXTENSION, BEING NEEDS MOST.
yes sir date to be extended till 30 november . Madam please extend the date madam humble request from tax payers
KUCH AAYA NEWS
KUCH AAYA DATE EXTANTION KA
Respected mam pls extend due date of audit 30 sep 19 to 30 Nov 19
Please Date Extend 15-11-19 So Diwali Festival is Oct
Humbly request Madam to extend the due date to 30th November, 2019.
I fully support my professional collegue Mr Amresh and more particularly I support and endorse his suggestion as mentione in Para 5 for rationalisation of provision of section 271B in form of late fees to avoid every year tussel with the department in this respect .Do consider this view as advanced by my collegue to whom i extended my support in next Budget. In this year be positive in granting of extension.
Plz extend the tax audit date plz .
I WANT MY CLIENTS BOOKS BE PROPERLY AUDITED AND ALL THINGS BE DONE PROPERLY BUT THE GOVT APPEARS BE TO BE ARROGANT BY NOT LISTENING TO VOICES OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS WHO ARE UNDER IMMENSE PRESSURE OF AUDIT, EXTENSION OF 1 MONTH TIME WILL NOT COST ANYTHING TO GOVT BUT IT WILL IMMENSELY AFFECT THE HEALTH OF CA AND PEOPLE WORKING UNDER THEM
CBDT is not concerned about the plight of thousands of tax payers & professionals crying for extension of the due date. Not listening the voice of business community is totally undemocratic, and there is no penal provision for the default of bureaucrats who failed.
Plz extend the tax audit date till 30 Nov.
MARNE KE BAD SANJIVNI DENGE
RESPECTABLE FINANCE MINISTER,
KINDLY ENSURE EXTENSION OF TAX AUDIT DUE DATE MINIMUM BY ONE MONTH AS ALL OVER INDIA CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS DID NOT GET SUFFICIENT TIME TO COMPLETE TAX AUDIT WORK. TAX AUDIT EXERCISE, IF DONE IN PROFESSIONAL MANNER, IS ALWAYS HELPFUL TO INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT AND THUS INDIRECTLY TO NATION. KINDLY EXTEND DUE DATE AND GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE NATION, PROFESSION AND BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN AN EXCELLENT MANNER AND IN THIS WAY WE WILL PROVE TO BE A PARTNER IN NATION BUILDING
THANKS A LOT
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Due Date of Tax Audit Reports & Income Tax Returns should be extended up to 30.11.2019