The Income Tax Department has redrawn the deadline map for filing returns for assessment year 2026-27 with a single July 31 date for everyone no longer in place. The due date now depends on which ITR form you file.
The big change are the staggered ITR deadlines. Salaried people, pensioners and investors filing ITR-1 or ITR-2, which include those with salary, capital gains, interest or one to two house properties, are still required to file income tax returns by July 31.
But taxpayers with business or professional income who are not subject to audit and are filing ITR-3 or ITR-4 now get a full extra month until August 31. This comes as a relief for freelancers, consultants, doctors, lawyers, small proprietors, partners and those under presumptive taxation, who earlier had to scramble against the same July date as salaried filers. The extra weeks give them room for bookkeeping, reconciliation and cleaner returns.
Tax audit cases are due on October 31 with the audit report to be filed a month earlier. The date for transfer pricing cases is November 30.
Also read: ITR rules under new I-T Act to be notified by January
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