the central board of direct taxes cbdt has extended the due dates for filing tax audit reports and income tax return for certain category of taxpayers for fy 202021 this was announced by the income tax department via a press release issued on january 11 2022the itr deadline extension has come after various taxpayers asked the tax department and finance ministry to extend the itr filing dates due to the rising coronavirus cases and issues with the new income tax portal on consideration of difficulties reported by the taxpayers and other stakeholders due to covid and in electronic filing of various reports of audit under the provisions of the incometax act 1961 the central board of direct taxes has decided to further extend the due dates for filing of income tax returns and various reports of audit for the assessment year 202122 said the press releasevarious tax associations taxpayers tax professionals and so on appealed to the government to extend the due date of submission of tax audit reports and filing of itr for this category of individuals tax professionals and various charted accountant associations trended the hashtags on twitter appealing government to extend the due dateson consideration of difficulties reported by taxpayersstakeholders due to covid in efiling of audit reports for income tax india incometaxindia 1641904025000as per the press release issued by the department the due date of furnishing of report of audit under any provision of the incometax act for the financial year 202021 which was 30th september 2021 in the case of assessees referred in clause a of explanation 2 to subsection 1 of section 139 of the it act as extended to 31st october 2021 and 15th january 2022 by circular no92021 dated 20052021 and circular no172021 dated 09092021 respectively is further extended to 15th february 2022the due date of furnishing of report of audit under any provision of the it act for the financial year 202021 which was 31st october 2021 in the case of assessees referred in clause aa of explanation 2 to subsection 1 of section 139 of the act is extended to 15th february 2022 the due date of furnishing of report from an accountant by persons entering into international transaction or specified domestic transaction under section 92e of the act for the previous year 202021 which was 31st october 2021 as extended to 30th november 2021 and 31st january 2022 by circular no92021 dated 20052021 and circular no172021 dated 09092021 respectively is further extended to 15th february 2022the due date of furnishing of return of income for the financial year 202021 assessment year 202122 which was 31st october 2021 under subsection 1 of section 139 of the act as extended to 30th november 2021 and 15th february 2022 by circular no92021 dated 20052021 and circular no172021 dated 09092021 respectively is further extended to 15th march 2022 the due date of furnishing of return of income for the financial year 202021 assessment year 202122 which was 30th november 2021 under