new delhi more than 123 crore ereturns were filed by taxpayers during the current filing season a 68 per cent jump in numbers as compared to last year latest data compiled after deadline for filing of income tax returns closed on august 5 shows more than 87 lakh salaried class taxpayers filed their tax returns online this year registering an overwhelming rise of 85 per cent in this category as compared to the last time 12303 lakh returns have been efiled till august 5 2013 which is 683 per cent higher than 7311 lakh returns efiled in the corresponding period during last year upto august 5 8713493 returns were efiled under itr 1 and itr 2 salaried class of taxpayers which is 858 per cent higher than the 4690279 returns efiled under itr 1 and itr 2 in the corresponding period last fiscal the central board of direct taxes cbdt said in a statement on wednesday the board had earlier extended the last date for filing of it returns for assessment year 201314 to august 5 both manual and efiled because of pressure on the computer servers of its bangalorebased central processing centre cpc which deals with efiling the cbdt said the deadline was extended from july 31 to august 5 as there was an overwhelming response to efiling from every corner of the country interestingly 692 lakh returns were efiled on august 5 alone the last date of filing the departments servers according to official data received a peak rate of 2303 returns per minute during the current filing spree a special team of the department has been deployed to continuously monitor the web portals and other technological parameters of the official efiling website of the it department incometaxindiaefilinggovin electronic filing has been made mandatory for assesses having net taxable above rs five lakh from this year