{"id":2294,"date":"2016-08-10T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T06:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2017-01-15T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T05:50:38","slug":"over-75-lakh-taxpayers-availed-e-verification-facility-for-filing-income-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/over-75-lakh-taxpayers-availed-e-verification-facility-for-filing-income-tax-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 75 lakh taxpayers availed e-verification facility for filing Income Tax Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/over-75-lakh-taxpayers-availed-e-verification-facility-for-filing-income-tax-returns\/download-84\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3317 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-84.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-84.jpg 281w, https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download-84-150x61.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 75 lakh taxpayers availed the e-verification facility of their income tax returns filed till August 5 against around 33 lakh taxpayers last year till September 7, which will ensure faster processing of their returns. In all 226.98 lakh e-returns were filed in FY 2016-17 as compared to 70.97 lakh for the same period in FY 2015-16. The number is higher because last year the date of filing had been extended to September 7.<\/p>\n<p>By September 7, 2015 nearly 207 lakh returns had been filed, which yields 9.8% rise in e-filing this year. Aadhaar based e-verification was used by 17.68 lakh taxpayers during the current year as against 10.41 lakh taxpayers during the same period in 2015-16, finance ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to these, 3.32 lakh returns were digitally signed. Thus, over 35% of taxpayers have already completed the entire process of return submission electronically,&#8221; it added. The forms that are not electronically verified have to be physically mailed to processing centre in Bengaluru before they can be processed.<\/p>\n<p>The revenue department is encouraging all taxpayers who have submitted their returns to e-verify them as an easy alternative to sending their ITR-V form to CPC, Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>The government said tax refunds of Rs 14,332 crore have been issued this year till August 5. &#8220;The Central Processing Centre (CPC) Bengaluru has already issued over 54.35 lakh refunds totaling to Rs 14,332 crore have been issued this year till August 5. &#8220;The Central Processing Centre (CPC) Bengaluru has already issued over 54.35 lakh refunds totaling to Rs 14,332 crore which includes 20.81 lakh refunds for AY 2016-17 (current year returns) totaling to Rs 2,922 crore till August 5, 2016,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/53607133.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/53607133.cms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 75 lakh taxpayers availed the e-verification facility of their income tax returns filed till August 5 against around 33 lakh taxpayers last year till September 7, which will ensure faster processing of their returns. In all 226.98 lakh e-returns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/over-75-lakh-taxpayers-availed-e-verification-facility-for-filing-income-tax-returns\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,493,491],"tags":[454,832,455,451,523,295],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-business-advisory-services","category-financial-corporate-services","category-economy-business-updates-corporate-affairs","category-income-tax-e-filing-of-returns-for-individuals-partnerships-companies","tag-cpc-bengaluru","tag-electronic-verification-code-evc","tag-income-tax","tag-income-tax-return-itr","tag-online","tag-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunkrish.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}