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.
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 reasons.
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 Form.
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 success.
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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