ITR Filing Deadline Extension: Now Karnataka commerce body, Surat CA unit seek ITR due date extension

A number of Income Tax Return Filing-related bodies have been requesting the Income Tax (I-T) Department to extend the September 15, 2025, ITR filing deadline, and now two more bodies have joined the chorus. The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FKCCI) and the Chartered Accountants Association, Surat (CAAS) have urged the government to extend the ITR filing deadlines for different types of ITRs for the Assessment Year 2025–2026. The bodies claim that there have been many cases where people are facing many technical and compliance-related issues, and frequent changes in ITR forms are causing a delay in ITR filing.

Both bodies have written a letter each to the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), requesting extensions for various ITR deadlines.

ITR filing deadline extension now demanded by this Tax Bar Association due to many issues including technical glitches with ITR portal

Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FKCCI) demands ITR deadline extensions
FKCCI brought attention to the difficulties that professionals and taxpayers have been facing because of extensive changes to ITR forms, technical malfunctions, system-related problems, etc.

In its letter to CBDT, FKCCI president MG Balakrishna wrote, “Due to the implementation of the extensive changes in the ITR Forms and the systems to comply with the changes, there have been significant glitches and technical issues, which are being addressed to the respective authorities tasked with the functioning of the systems at hand. These technical glitches have significantly caused delays in being prepared with the filing of the returns, and compromised our ability to comply with the timelines as proposed in the notification by the board.”

The Karnataka CCI body has requested the following extensions be made to avoid any unwanted hardships by the taxpayers and the professionals alike.

• Ensures accurate and complete compliance with the issues involved
• Grants due relief to the parties involved.
• Avoids avoidable and unscrupulous litigation.
• Facilitates compliance, transition, reliable adoption, and accurate administration of the revised ITR forms.

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Chartered Accountants Association, Surat (CAAS) raises concerns

In a letter to the CBDT chairman, CAAS complained about many things and criticised the department for overlooking some problems. It wrote-
Utilities Released Late: ITR-5 released only on 08-08-2025, ITR-6 on 14-08-2025, ITR-7 on 21-08- 2025.
Tax Audit Utilities (Form 3CA/3CB-3CD) released only on 14-08-2025. For Audit-assessees, whose statutory deadline remains 30-09-2025, the Government has left barely 40 days to execute the most exhaustive compliance work of the year.

Portal Glitches: Despite judicial directions, where CBDT was clearly directed to attend to portal glitches “at the earliest”, the Department still displays the same nonchalance. Grievances continue to be closed without redressal, uploads fail at the eleventh hour, and acknowledgements vanish into thin air.

First-year Burden of NCE Formats: Every proprietorship, partnership, AOP, trust, HUF, and BOI now needs to re-map its accounts to the prescribed format, prepare comparative figures in the new style, and draft additional disclosures and notes to accounts that were never required earlier.

Natural Calamities: States including Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Delhi are under the duress of the worst floods in decades. Offices are submerged, staff are stranded, power and internet services are disrupted, data servers are down, and yet, no thought seems to be spared by those who sign off compliance circulars from the comfort of their air-conditioned rooms in North Block.

Demand for Time Compensation: We do not beg for “extensions”. We demand time compensation for the days and weeks lost due to systemic failure, which are attributable solely to delayed approvals of forms and the software agency’s sluggish execution.

Festive season ahead: We cannot ignore that the great festivals of Navratri, Dusshera, Diwali, Bhai Dooj and Chhath fall between 22nd September 2025 and 27th October 2025. These are days for cultural celebration, devotion, and family bonding-not days to engage, involve, or submerge ourselves in statutory compliances. Festivals are meant for enjoying, not for slogging over half-functional utilities and glitchy portals.

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Chartered Accountants Association, Surat (CAAS ), President Hardik Kakadiya says, "Tax portals dominate the various processes in taxation these days. Thus, the timely release of utility for filing various forms assumes paramount importance. But it is a regular feature of CBDT to notify these forms late for reasons best known to them. The software vendor, presently Infosys Ltd, takes considerable time in rolling out these updated forms for users to fill up. When these forms are released, various glitches come as a complementary gift for the hapless users to test.

"What we are demanding (not begging) is the compensation for time, because an extension is for people who missed the bus, but here in fact, we had been waiting since long. In 2021-22, CBDT had issued a couple of circulars while granting the extension where interest for late filing of ITR was waived in cases where the final tax payable was less than Rs 1 lakh and was discriminatory. This discrimination was exactly challenged in the writ petition, which is pending till today. Thus, we have pre-emptively warned CBDT not to engage in such discriminatory tactics in exemptions while granting time compensation”, Kakadiya says.