Issues In New Tax Portal Continues As Govt Again Extends Manual filing of Forms 15CA /15CB To 15th Aug

Citing difficulties being faced in the new income tax portal, CBDT through a press release dated 20.07.2021 has once again extended the date of submitting Forms 15CA /15CB in manual form to the authorized dealer from previously extended date of 15th July 2021 to 15^th August 2021

It seems the problems with the new tax portal seems not to be ending as the compliance dates are being extended again and again by the government. amid lot of hue and cry for difficulties in the working of new income tax portal is all over the news. Social Media is full with posts and memes for the same.

For foreign remittances i.e. payments made outside India, individual is required to file Form 15CA and Chartered Accountant certificate in Form 15CB (wherever applicable) as per Income Tax Act.

These forms were required to be submitted electronically by the taxpayers on e-filing portal and on successful uploading the downloaded Forms 15CA /15CB were then submitted to the authorized dealer.

But this time around, taxpayers were facing difficulty in uploading these forms on the new income tax portal, it was therefore decided by the government to allow the taxpayers to submit Forms 15CA /15CB manually till 30^th June vide press release by CBDT on 14.06.2021.

Later the date of submitting Forms 15CA /15CB manually was again extended to 15th July 2021. Press release for the same was issued by CBDT on 05.07.2021.

Now, since the issues in e-filing portal are not yet resolved the Government has once again extended the last date of submitting Forms 15CA /15CB manually till 15^th August 2021.

Authorized dealers have also been directed to accept these manually submitted forms till 15^th August 2021 for the purpose of foreign remittances.

Government would later make the facility available on new e-filing portal to upload these forms. Once the facility is available, individuals would be required to upload the manually submitted Form 15CA/15CB on e-filing portal using the facility and generate the Document Identification Number.