World's highest ever tax returns filed in a day: CBDT
New Delhi, Sep 1 (UNI) With a highest ever increase in the e-filing of income tax, 49,29,121 Income Tax Returns were filed in a single day.
According to an officials statement, this has perhaps created a history as the tax administration nowhere in the world has achieved such huge online e-filing of tax returns in a single day.
According to the IT department 49 lakh 29 thousand and 121 ITRs were filed in a single day on August 31.
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said that setting new records in e-filing on August 31, the peak filing rate per second was at 196 ITRs and peak filing rate per minute was at 7447 ITRs while peak filing rate per hour was at 3,87,571 ITRs.
The Information Security team of IT department thwarted over 2205 malicious attacks on the website aimed at disrupting services in the peak period, the statement added.
CBDT said that taxpayer grievances on e-Nivaran, email and on call were responded immediately with a turnaround time for twitter being 4 hrs on queries related to e-filing.
CBDT also issued two circulars to clarify issues raised by taxpayers, ensuring that taxpayer queries and stress were taken care.
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