new delhi nearly 589 crore income tax returns itrs have been filed on the new efiling portal of the tax department as on december 31 2021 the extended due date the finance ministry said on saturday more than 4611 lakh itrs were filed on december 31 in order to assist taxpayers with a smooth experience on the portal 16850 taxpayer calls and 1467 chats were responded to by the helpdesk in addition the department has been proactively engaging with and reaching out to taxpayers and professionals for assistance on its official twitter handle on december 31 more than 230 tweets from taxpayers and professionals were responded to the centre on friday had said there was no proposal to extend the deadline for filing income tax returns addressing a news conference after the end of the gst council meeting on friday revenue secretary tarun bajaj had made it clear that filing of returns was going on smoothly the deadline ended on december 31 midnight there had been calls to extend the deadline given the increase in covid cases and the new variantbajaj had said there was no technical issue at all and figures for returns filed were going up every hour the deadline for filing the returns for this year had been extended earlier due to the impact of the second wave of covid19 and the technical glitches linked to the tax filing portal out of 589 crore itrs filed for the assessment year 202122 as on december 31 496 of these are itr1 292 crore 93 are itr2 548 lakh 121 are itr3 7105 lakh 272 are itr4 160 crore 13 are itr5 766 lakh itr6 258 lakh and itr7 067 lakh over 457 of these itrs have been filed using the online itr form on the portal and the balance have been uploaded using the itr created from the offline software utilities