In a major development, the government on Friday said there is no proposal to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns beyond its current deadline of December 31, as per a PTI report.

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Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said December 31, 2021, remains the official deadline for filing of income tax returns.

He said returns filed so far are more than those filed in the previous year.

Meanwhile, Income Tax India @IncomeTaxIndia tweeted, "More than 5.78 crore #ITRs for AY 2021-22 filed till 7pm today compared to 5.95 crore #ITRs for AY 2020-21 filed till 10th January, 2021(extended due dt for AY 2020-21). This includes 35.74 lakh ITRs filed today with 4.55 lakh ITRs filed in last one hour."

(With PTI inputs)