Tax audit date extension plays out in courts, here is what taxpayers should do

With September 30 deadline for filing tax audit reports (TAR) less than a week away, taxpayers and professionals are facing challenges due overlapping compliance timelines and technical glitches. Some high courts have intervened in the matter and a number of tax bodies have requested extensions.

On September 24, the Jodhpur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court issued an interim order extending the TAR deadline to October 31. The Tax Bar Association of Jodhpur had approached the court for relief.

The Karnataka High Court, too, extended the filing deadline to October 31 on a plea filed by the Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association (KSCAA).

Pleas for extension

More petitions have been filed seeking extensions for the TAR and Income Tax Return (ITR) filing deadlines.

The All India