Department’s latest initiative to verify an Income Tax Return by Aadhaar or other bank database has received positive response from ITR filers
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New Delhi: In what could be a good news for lakhs of taxpayers, the Income Tax department will now process and send refunds in a short time of 7-10 days as its latest technology upgrade of electronic and Aadhaar-based ITR verification has begun on a successful note.
The department’s latest initiative to verify an Income Tax Return by Aadhaar or other bank database has received positive response from ITR filers because of which the taxman, for Assessment Year 2015-16, was able to process and send refunds to bank accounts of eligible taxpayers in less than 15 days time.
“The days are gone when getting an I-T refund used to take months or in some cases even a few years. The new electronic verification e-filing system has proved to be very customer-friendly and as a token of thanks to the taxpayers, the department is working to ensure their refunds are sent in a week’s time or a maximum of ten days.
“This is surely the way forward in the administration of tax affairs in the country,” a top officer of the department involved in these operations said. According to latest statistics, the department received 2.06 crore returns on its e-filing portal as on September 7, 2015, which is an increase of 26.12 per cent over the last year when 1.63 crore returns were filed online.
The department’s CPC as on September 7 processed 45.18 lakh returns and issued refunds to 22.14 lakh tax payers, it added.
( Source : PTI )
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