The Income Tax Department has launched a new feature on its e-filing portal that allows taxpayers to identify errors in certain types of ITR applications and directly ask authorities to correct them.
This comes amid calls to extend the current deadline for filing revised ITR forms of December 31, 2025 for the Assessment Year (AY) 2025-26 (FY 2024-25).
As per the new update, ITR correction applications can now be filed directly before the Assessing Officer (AO)—using the e-filing portal—in just three steps:
1) Login to the e-filing portal.
2) Go to Services Tab --> Rectification --> Request to AO seeking rectification.
3) Fill in the details, carefully identifying the errors in the ITR application you had filed for AY 2025-26, and submit it.
This change speeds up the previous process, which involved the taxpayer manually submitting rectification requests or routing them through the AOs, an Economic Times report said.
The report added that this new feature can be used to rectify mistakes like calculation errors, incorrect interest charges, figure mismatches or clerical mistakes for the following cases:
a) Transfer Pricing (TP) orders;
b) Directions from the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP), an additional mechanism to assist legal cases around TP orders;
c) Revision orders, such as those passed under Section 263/264 of the Income Tax Act 1961. Section 263 empowers officials like the I-T Commissioner/Principal Commissioner to revise an assessment order if it is found to be "erroneous" in a way that is "prejudicial to the interests of the revenue". Section 264 gives the I-T Commissioner the power to grant relief to a taxpayer—either via the taxpayer's application or on their own—by revising an order that is prejudicial to the taxpayer.
Still, a number of taxpayers have been urging the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to extend the December 31 deadline over concerns about getting time to correct ITR filing errors as well as returns that are simply delayed.
A number of taxpayers that have been identified by the I-T department are being contacted via SMS and email under the government’s “Non-intrusive Usage of Data to Guide and Enable (NUDGE)” campaign.
"The outreach is advisory and reflects a trust-first approach, enabling voluntary correction, wherever required," the department said in an X post on Tuesday.
"Why the ITR website is non-functional since 2 days?" an X user wrote, tagging the I-T department.
"Im raising the issue on X and even on @IncomeTaxIndia grievance portal, all went on vain," another X user pointed out.
The hashtag, #Extend_Due_Date_Immediately, has again been trending on X for the past few days.