Income Tax Department
The last date for filing Income Tax Return (ITR) for the assessment year 2026-27 is fast approaching. If you have left the work of filing your return incomplete till now, then complete it without any delay. According to the latest data of the Income Tax Department, till now more than 4 crore taxpayers have successfully filed their returns. The department has made a special appeal to all the taxpayers not to wait for the deadline of 31 July 2026. It is wise to file returns well in time to avoid technical glitches, server slowness and unnecessary stress due to heavy traffic on the e-filing portal in the last few days.
Leave the stress of deadline, file ITR immediately
Filling ITR-1 or ITR-2 form is a mandatory annual process for common taxpayers including working class and small businessmen. The Income Tax Department has issued an official statement on the social media platform ‘X’ saying that the important figure of 4 crore ITR filings has been crossed. This number is increasing rapidly every hour. The clear message of the department is to save yourself from the panic caused by the last date and complete your work in advance. By filing returns within the stipulated time, not only are you protected from heavy penalties, but if you have any TDS deducted, its refund is also credited to your bank account quickly.
4 Crore+ ITRs for AY 2026-27 filed and counting!
Avoid the 31 July, 2026 deadline stress and file your ITR 1 & 2 early.
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ā Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) July 27, 2026
Finance Minister’s emphasis on speeding up the refund process
Only last week the 167th Income Tax Day was organized. This event was also important because it was the first Income Tax Day after the implementation of ‘Income Tax Act, 2025′. In this program, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman praised the record number of ITR filings. He has given clear instructions to the Income Tax Department that the refund process should be expedited. Receiving refunds quickly strengthens taxpayers’ confidence in the system and also makes it easier for them to follow tax-related rules. Referring to responsive tax governance based on the principle of ‘5R’, the Finance Minister said that now the responsibility of the department is not only to collect revenue, but its main goal is to bring fairness in the system, increase ease of doing business and provide citizen-centric services.
Increased capacity of new portal, 1.6 crore interactions in a day
This time the tax filing experience has become much better and easier than before. The Income Tax Department has significantly increased the computing capacity and bandwidth of the e-filing portal. The result of this upgrade is that the portal is now easily handling the traffic of more than one crore taxpayers in a day without any stoppage. At peak times this figure had reached 16 million interactions. If we look at the figures, till July 21, 3.2 crore returns had been filed. Of these, 94 percent returns had been successfully verified, while 60 percent returns had also been processed. This simply means that the work of the common man is no longer getting stuck unnecessarily.
Taxpayers’ complaints are being resolved soon
There has been a big change in the attitude of the Income Tax Department towards the problems and complaints of taxpayers. Of the approximately 78,000 complaints received on the Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) during the financial year 2025-26, 94 percent have been resolved. Whereas earlier it used to take an average of 57 days to resolve a complaint, now this time has come down to just 28 days. Nearly two-thirds of the complaints were resolved within just three weeks. Apart from this, the performance of e-redressal platform has also improved. Here, out of about 3.5 lakh complaints, 95 percent have been resolved, where the average resolution time has also come down to 42 days.
