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A total of 16.92 lakh individual taxpayers including 2.13 lakh new ones filed their income tax returns within the deadline ended on Sunday, in the current fiscal year of 2018-2019, according to National Board of Revenue data, reports The New Age.
The number of tax returns rose by 14 per cent in this fiscal year compared with that in last fiscal year (2017-18) when 14.78 lakh taxpayers filed their tax returns, the data showed.
The number of taxpayers is still much below than the expectations of the government high-ups who on various occasions said that the number should be at least 50 lakh.
The number of tax returns filers is also very low as the number of registered taxpayers is 38.16 lakh.
NBR member (tax administration and human resource management) Zia Uddin Mahmood on Monday said that the number of income-taxpayers would increase to 20.07 lakh if the number of petitions filed by taxpayers seeking more time for filing tax returns were considered.
Some 3.15 lakh taxpayers sought time extension this year from NBR, he said.
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