Things Shouldn’t be miss while Filling New ITRs Form

What is the Challenges Faced By people When Filing Their ITR’s?

The taxation process is complex. The forms required to file returns are incredibly complicated. There are various fields on these forms that need to be filled in. The nomenclature being used must also be understood.

Any error made when filing the returns has the potential to ruin the whole thing. The main difficulties that people encounter when completing and submitting their income tax returns are covered here.

Things Shouldn’t be miss while Filling New ITRs Form

Increased focus on E-assessments to avoid tax evasion

• The Government’s focus on e-assessments is an effort to use information technology to effectively assess tax returns and fix tax compliance issues. The new income tax return (ITR) forms for financial year (FY) 2017-18 attempts to digitally collect as much information as possible, to process the tax returns efficiently.

Tenant’s PAN mandatory

• The new ITR-2 form requires tax payers to furnish the PAN of the tenant while providing details of income from house property, if available. This move should give more data to the Revenue Authorities to enable them to reconcile the PAN of the tenant and the landlord, where an exemption for House Rent Allowance (HRA) is claimed, since employees need to furnish PAN of their landlord to the employer.
  The new forms also requires the PAN of the tenant to be furnished (in the TDS Schedule) by landlords, since individual tenants paying rent in excess of Rs 50,000 are required to deduct tax at source from FY 2017-18 onwards.

New ITR-1 (Sahaj) only for Ordinary Resident Of India

• Similar to last year, Form ITR-1 (Sahaj) can be filed by individual taxpayers who have Income from salaries, one house property, other sources (interest etc.) and whose income is less than Rs 50 lakh.
• This is a simplified form, but can be used only by an Ordinary Resident (OR) in India. By removing Non-Resident (NR) and Not Ordinarily Resident (NOR) taxpayers from the scope of ITR-1,
• Income tax Authorities have made sure that all the returns filed under ITR-1 are simple and have the same scope of income. This should help the authorities process these returns faster.

Additional details required in ITR -1- on ‘Income from Salaries’ and ‘Income from House Property’

• The new ITR-1 seeks additional details on ‘Income from Salaries’ and ‘Income from House Property’ which were not required to be furnished last year. Tax payers would now be required to provide the breakup of salary, for example taxable allowances, value of perquisites, deduction for professional tax etc., and details of income from house property such as gross rent received, tax paid on property, interest payable etc. This would give a better picture of how income from these heads have been computed.

New ITR form Like ITR-2 and ITR-3

• The new ITR-2 form can be used by individuals and Hindu Undivided Families (HUFs) who do not have any income from business or profession, unlike last year where information regarding partnership firm could be furnished in ITR-2 itself. This change has separated the taxpayers with any kind of income from business or profession, who would now be required to file either form ITR-3 or ITR-4-Sugam, which require extensive details to be furnished. Individuals qualifying as NR can receive their refund in a foreign bank account, by providing the details of any one foreign bank account in the new ITR-2 form, which specifically mentions the same.

Required to fill Schedule Foreign Assets

• Applicability Of Schedule Foreign Assets: If an individual (not being a citizen of India) is in India for a business purpose, employment or student visa purposes and he acquires any asset during the previous year in which he was a non-resident, such asset shall not be required to be reported in Schedule FA – details of foreign assets and income if no income is derived from that asset during the current previous year. That means the requirement to fulfill schedule FA is only for Resident Indian who is having Income from any sources outside India, or signing authority in any account located outside India.

Report in Schedule ICDS?

Earlier there was two accounting standard for Income tax purpose:

• Method of Accounting
• Method of Valuation Of Stock

But from Current Assessment year 2017-18 Department introduced some new

Accounting standards and impact of these standards has to be disclosed by assessee while uploading return in schedule ICDS.

Effect of Income Computation Disclosure Standards on Profit (Reporting Under Schedule ICDS):

• Accounting Policies
• Valuation of Inventory
• Construction Contract
• Revenue Recognition
• Tangible Fixed Assets
• Change in Foreign Exchange Rates
• Government Grants
• Securities
• Borrowing Cost
• Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets

List of Documents are required to file ITR

There are a few documents that are typical when completing an ITR even if they vary according on the source of income. Also keep in mind that you do not need to submit or upload any papers to the internet; rather, it is recommended that you keep them on hand so that you can fill out the necessary information accurately, save time, and prevent common mistakes.

• PAN Card
• Aadhaar Card
• Bank Account Statements
• Bank Account Details
• Challan Details
• Original Return/Notice
• Information or documents of chapter VI Deduction

We may check the whole list of documents for Income tax return filing when we have house property, income from salary, other sources and capital gains

Due Date of ITR filling for the AY 2022-23

Person signing the tax return needs to declare in what capacity he is filing the tax return,

• Verification in the new ITR forms have added a new line, where the person signing the tax return needs to declare in what capacity he is filing the tax return and that he is competent to prepare the return and verify it. This puts more onus on persons preparing and filing the tax return by ensuring that they confirm the information submitted through the tax return. The previous forms only asked taxpayers to verify that the information submitted through the tax return is correct.

Consequences if we don’t file an ITR on or before the due date

Below are results if we do not file our ITR on or before the timeline:- Non-filing of Income tax return. Few of them are are mention below:

• We needed to Pay Interest U/s 234A @ 1% per month for late filing of income tax return.
• Late filing fee applicable u/s 234F up to INR 5000/- depending upon taxable income & date of income tax return filing will be levied.
  We can not carry forward the losses from our business or profession.
• Lose Interest on refunds.
• We may receive the income tax Notice from the Tax Dept.

What are the ITR filing deadline ? i.e July 31, 2022

• The FY 2022–23 (the AY 2022-23) ITR filing date is July 31, 2022. It is advised to submit your ITR prior to the deadline, which is July 31, 2022. Read on to learn what will happen and what choices are open to a taxpayer who wants to file his or her ITR beyond the deadline if, for any reason, you are unable to do so before the deadline of July 31, 2022.

Penalty for belated ITR

• Taxpayers would need to pay a fee of Rs 5,000, if their tax return is filed after the due date (i.e., 31 July) and before 31 December of the subsequent FY.
• Fee payable will be Rs 10,000 if the tax return is filed after 31 December of the subsequent FY.
• The new ITRs have appropriate space to capture this information wherever applicable.
• Taxpayers should be mindful of this change, as till FY 2016-17, there was no fee payable for delay in filing of tax return till the end of the subsequent FY (i.e., 31 March). This would ensure that tax returns are filed in a timely manner and the Revenue Authorities have adequate time to process the same.

The Penalty

• The deadline for submitting a belated ITR for the fiscal year 2021–22 (AY 2022-23) is December 31, 2022 Unless the government extends it. A late filing charge will be assessed if an ITR is submitted after the deadline (July 31) but before December 31, 2022.

Latest Update :

• The CBDT has announced the ITR forms for the FY 2021–22 (A Y 2022-23) in the first week of April, . Due to the complexity of the new forms and the early notification of them, assessees will have more time to prepare the necessary paperwork and supporting documentation.  So you must make sure that you disclose everything while filing your forms. There are roughly 30 changes in the new ITR forms, and while some of them might not relate to you, others you should be informed with.

ITR Forms for FY 2022-23 

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