new delhi the efiling of income tax returns have registered a 48 per cent rise with more than one crore assesses doing it in the first four months of the current fiscal year 2013 the ereturns filed during the current financial year upto july 31 2013 10321775 represent an increase of 48 per cent over the number of ereturns filed during the corresponding period of the last financial year 6963056 the central board of direct taxes cbdt said in a statement today the cbdt had extended the last date for filing of it returns for assessment year 201314 both manual and efiled because of pressure on the computer servers the maximum number of online returns during the same period were filed by salaried class of taxpayers a total of 5781252 people under the salaried class filed their ereturns till july 31 it was earlier erroneously reported that the total number ereturns filed by taxpayers till july 31 was less than the over 2 crore efiling numbers filed during the financial year 201213 in this connection it is clarified that the figure of 21486807 ereturns filed during the financial year 201213 pertain to the whole year ie between april 1 2012 to march 31 2013 whereas during the current year up to july 31 2013 between april 1 2013 to july 31 2013 10321775 returns have been efiled therefore it is clarified that the efiled returns during the current financial year up to 31 july 2013 have registered substantial increase compared to the ereturns filed during the corresponding period of the previous financial year and are not less compared to the returns filed during the financial year 201213 as reported the statement said