District Taxation Bar Association (Direct Taxes), Ludhiana has made a representation to FM Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Ji and requested for extension of time for filing income tax returns in the light of the issues and problems being faced by the Members & the Assessees.
District Taxation Bar Association (Direct Taxes), Ludhiana
Dated: 27.12.2021
To
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Ji
Honorable Union Minister of Finance
Govt. of India
New Delhi.
Respected Ma’am,
Sub: Representation regarding Extension of Due Dates.
At the outset, we would like to appreciate the initiatives taken by the Worthy Government with the launch of new Income Tax Portal for providing better services to the Tax payers. We also understand that any such change takes time to stabilize the smooth functioning of the same. With the launch of new Income Tax Portal in June 2021, many glitches noticed in its working have been removed, which has led to filing of quite a good number of Income Tax Returns and Forms. However, if the filing data is analyzed, we find that most of the ITRs filed are of Assesses who have Income from Salary, Other Sources etc. as the Income Tax Returns for Companies, Business Income, TAR etc. are not getting through smoothly due to certain technical issues, which still persist in the portal and the filings getting delayed and taking considerable time and energy of the Assesses and Professionals.
To mitigate the hardships of the Assesses and the Professionals, we request your worthy self to extend the time for filling of all forms & returns for this year to 31st March 2022 without any penal actions as the same would go a long way in stabilizing the portal and would also allow the stakeholders to have a better feel of the portal. The following points further vouch for the above requested extension: –
1. In case ITR-6 for Companies Return, the companies opted for concessional Tax u/S115BAA or 15BAB last year, The Portal is not allowing the filing of ITR and is asking for filing of Form10-IC again but not allowing its filing.
2. The Portal is not allowing filing Form 10-IE in many cases and showing unknown r
3. The non-working of DSC functionality in many cases.
4. The wrong Schema for TAR, which is getting updated on daily basis and resulting in wrong data getting reflected in already filed TARs.
5. The portal is not allowing the filling of Forms for New Registration of Trusts and societies and thus denying filing of ITR-7 For
6. The threat posed by Omicron Virus has further adversely affecting the normal functioning of the offices of the professionals.
7. Still many times even as of date the Site stops working randomly.
8. These are some of the many problems, which are being faced by the stakeholders besides the issue of late functioning of portal, which has resulted in piling of work with professionals and other stake holders requiring time to smoothly file the data with the Government and an Extension till the end of Financial Year i.e.31/03/2022, would give a sense of cooperation and a feeling that the Government and other stakeholders are moving together in making the new initiative of the government a succ
Warm Regards & Thanks
For District Taxation Bar Association (Direct Taxes), Ludhiana
CA. Jasminder Singh
President
Mob. – 98141-60550
Copy to:
1. The Honorable Prime Minster of India
2. The Honorable, MOS Finance
3. The Revenue Secretary
4. Chairman, CBDT
5. The Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax NWR, Chandigarh
6. The Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Ludhiana
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About – District Taxation Bar Association (Direct Taxes), Ludhiana
District Taxation Bar Association (Direct Taxes), Ludhiana was formed on 29th day of May, 1981 and for more than 41 years, the Bar Association has been serving its Chartered Accountants, Advocates and Income Tax Practitioner members to promote the administration of law and justice and to promote up to date knowledge and study of taxation laws amongst the members by arranging seminars, talks and discussions on the subject of direct taxes. The Association has been working for safeguarding the rights, interest and privileges of its members and for creating the sense of fellowship and consolidating the bond of brotherhood.
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Even today the 3rd January 2022 OTP are not successful. Even after entering OTP confirmation on EVC is not being got. We have to repeat OTP. process more than once. AIS and 26as for common people is controversial.
ITR5 also not available till now.
I am salaried person, even my CA could not file my return. As there was issue of OTP not getting generated. However previous year was my 1st year of return filing which was done very smoothly. But this year my return couldn’t be done because of technical glitches.
Final Date for submission of income tax return to be extended till 28 th February 2022, due to COVID restrictions. We support for your request.
The funniest part of the new portal is… If you call their customer care no. the basic verification of PAN vis s vis your DOB is often unsuccessful. It appears that they haven’t yet mapped individual PAN with DOB of their sincere taxpayers BUT REGRETTABLY EXPECT COMPLIANCE!!
I have been trying to get my friend registered as legal representative of her deceased husband for filing his ITR2 gor more than a week. Finally today it was successful, however after incurring a penalty of 1000/- by the deceased soul. We never expected this regime of tax
compliance.
The software is not at all Tax Payers friendly from the day one. Even setting of forget password is next to impossible. IT spokespersons are briefing in the interest of the faulty software, which is a blatant lie. What we need is that either the software be made glitches free else there are many water bodies throughout the country with great respect it may be arranged for immersion.
Agree with every point made out in the representation. Further, tying up with the AIS, TIS, 26AS, TRANSACTIONS in securities, equities, analyzing SFT and last not least the cert of int issued by banks! In itself time consuming, but essential as any variance will result in queries from CPC And onward….. We were waiting till last moment for the extention but the news report at around 5 pm sealed the fate of those who were yet to file. The attitude seems to be that of contempt for honest taxpayer than appreciation for tirelessly contributing to maintainence majority of the officials who are strutting relics of a bygone era of masters and slaves. A sad tax payer
Individuals who are required to returns in ITR-1 orITR-2 is not clearly defined. Persons not having salary income seems to be eligible to use both. The forms are slightly different and refund of TDS deducted in excess is badly affected. ITR-2 asks for details of refund/adjustment claimed for previous financial year and current year refund is ignored.
Hon’ble Finance Minister,
I write this letter to draw your attention to the discrimination that has been done thru various provisions of The Income Tax Act, 1961.
1) Section 115 BAC: The small traders having income under the head ” Income from business or profession” are required to file Form No.10-IE, whereas other individuals need not file such form. Further, this class of assessees (small traders) can exercise the option to switch over only once in a lifetime.
You would appreciate that those small traders have a sale turnover of a couple of crores and a profit margin of 5-10 % earning Rs.5-15 lakhs. They have tremendous pressure of survival due to pandemics. They are earning much less than those employed by corporate houses and multinational companies, where they get a salary much higher, can exercise the option to switch over to the old regime of taxation and new regime without filing any form AND EVERY YEAR.
You have failed to appreciate the fact that they are self-employed and beyond they give jobs to 4-5 persons, an accountant, salesmen, office attendees, etc. They are not job eaters but job providers to lesser unskilled persons who could not get jobs in corporate and multinational companies.
In fact, they deserve more stimulatory steps, more liberties, and space for freedom. They are running their business with many restrictions like cash transactions, TDS/TCS compliance, and many more
What is the justification for this discrimination? What is their fault – They are self-employed and job providers IS IT THEIR FAULT?
2) Section 44AB- TAX AUDIT: The very objective of this section is killed by the present regime. Once it was considered a simple and much-desired provision of taxation. First by Late Jaitely and now by the present FM, this piece of the section is made complicated year on year. It has become very difficult to understand this section. Here again, you have taken away the space for freedom and it acts against the small traders.
There are various other amendments in the Income Tax Act that this Government has introduced that show their enmity towards the business class – Here I mean traders and businessmen – not industrialists like Ambanis and Adanis.
Our PM always talks about “ease in doing business” and ” Government has no business to do business”.
How these lines are becoming superfluous and election jhumala.
Could you show any relief that you have given to traders and businessmen even during the tough time like covid pandemics except for some extention in the timeline of numerous compliance? Every small relief is loaded with conditions like less than 5% of cash transactions etc.
I am leaving GST for the tax authorities to do the MANTHAN.
Ending this letter, not with any request- the government has developed the DNA not heed to any request. For that, they need a Rakesh Tikait.
DO MANTHAN, IF FEEL ANY REGRET, CORRECT YOURSELF.
JAI HIND
CA Hitesh K Chandarana
I am a practicing tax consultant at Mandapeta, East Godavari Dist., Andhra Pradesh. I am facing immense problem in validating the bank accounts of tax payers for enabling them for e-verification. I am having still 20 cases of Non-Tax Audits which have to be filed by tomorrow. The Income Tax web site is getting strucked and taking more time to respond. I am getting fear and tension by hour by hour. I urge and request the government and madam Nirmala Seetha Raman to extend the due date of filing of all Income Tax returns.
It is advisable to request for PM intervention in such crucial situation. Even if we get extension, the software doesn’t support, again the same situation on extended due date
Let us hope