Income tax return filing deadline for FY20 extended

The Income Tax Department on Saturday issued a number of guidelines on the revision of dates for filing returns under different categories. The date for filing of individual income tax returns for FY 2019-20 has been extended for another month till December 31. The finance ministry said in the statement that for the taxpayers whose accounts need to be audited, the ITR deadline has been extended by two months till January 31, next year. Centre had in May extended the date for filing ITR for FY2019-20 from July 31 to November 30, in a major relief to taxpayers.