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ITR Filing Last Date FY 2024-25 (AY 2025-26)

By Mohammed S Chokhawala

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Updated on: Feb 4th, 2025

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7 min read

Filing your Income Tax Return (ITR) is an essential part of managing your tax obligations, and it’s important to stay updated with the latest deadlines and requirements. This guide highlights the ITR filing due dates for different categories of taxpayers, helping you navigate the tax filing process with ease.

Budget 2025 Update

In Budget 2025, the deadline for taxpayers to file updated income tax returns has been extended from 2 years to 4 years from the end of the relevant assessment year.

When is the Last Date to File ITR?

ITR filing last date for non audit tax payers for Financial Year 2024-25 (AY 2025-26) is July 31, 2025. However, if you miss filing within the due date, you can still file a belated return before December 31, 2025. 

ITR filing last date

Income Tax Filing Due Dates for FY 2024-25 (AY 2025-26)

 

Category of Taxpayer

Due Date for Tax Filing - FY 2024-25
*(unless extended)

Individual / HUF/ AOP/ BOI     
(books of accounts not required to be audited)

31st July 2025

Businesses (Requiring Audit)

15th October 2025

Businesses requiring transfer pricing reports   
(in case of international/specified domestic transactions)

30th November 2025

Revised return

31st December 2025 

Belated/late return

31st December 2025 

Updated return

31 March 2030 (4 years from the end of the relevant Assessment Year)

Here's an image for your easy understanding:

ITR filing due date

Consequences of Missing the ITR Filing Deadline

Interest

If you submit your return after the deadline, you will be liable to pay interest at a rate of 1% per month or part month on the unpaid tax amount as per Section 234A.

Late fee

In case of late filing, Section 234F imposes a late fee of Rs.5,000, which shall be reduced to Rs.1,000 if your total income is below Rs.5 lakh.

Loss Adjustment

In case you have incurred losses from sources like the stock market, mutual funds, properties, or any of your businesses, you have the option to carry them forward and offset them against your income in the subsequent year. This provision substantially reduces your tax liability in future years. However, you will not be allowed to carry forward these losses if you miss filing your ITR before the deadline.

What if ITR Filing is Missed?

Belated Return

If you miss the ITR filing due date, you can file a return after the due date, called a belated return. However, you will still have to pay the late fee and interest charges, and you will not be allowed to carry forward any losses for future adjustments. The last date for filing a belated return is 31st December of the assessment year (unless extended by the government). 

Updated Return

Still, if you miss the 31st December deadline due to unavoidable reasons still you can file the updated (ITR U) return subject to the conditions specified therein. Click here to know more.

What are Financial Year (FY) and Assessment Year (AY)?

The return you will file in the upcoming year is for the income you earned in FY 2024-25, i.e. for the income earned between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. The assessment year is the review year for FY 2024-2025, where you file your returns and declare your returns by declaring all the incomes, exemptions, deductions, losses etc., already made or incurred during the year for tax assessment. For the income earned during the FY (here FY 2024-25), the assessment year would be the immediately next year, i.e. 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026. Hence, the assessment year would be AY 2025-26.

Important Due Dates for Paying Advance Tax Instalments for FY 2025-26

Whenever we talk about income tax, there are certain tax formalities that need to be followed within the specified due dates, such as filing income tax returns, paying advance tax on time, etc.   

The due dates for the payment of advance tax are:

Due date

Nature of compliance

Tax to be paid

15th June 2024

First instalment

15% of tax liability

15th September 2024

Second instalment

45% of tax liability

15th December 2024

Third Instalment

75% of tax liability

15th March 2025

Fourth instalment

100% of tax liability

15th March 2025

Presumptive scheme

100% of tax liability

TDS Payment Due Dates for FY 2024-25

Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) is the tax deducted from the money paid at the time of making specified payments such as salary, rent, commission, professional fees, interest etc. by the persons making such payments

The due dates for depositing the tax deducted at source and filing of TDS return for the financial year 2023-24 for deductors is as shown in the below table -

Quarter ending

Month of deduction

Due dates for depositing TDS   

(FY 2024-25)*

TDS Return Due Date  

(FY 2023-24)

30th June 2024

April 2024

7th May 2024

31st July 2024

May 2024

7th June 2024

June 2024

7th July 2024

30th September 2024

July 2024

7th August 2024

31st October 2024

August 2024

7th September 2024

September 2024

7th October 2024

31st December 2024

October 2024

7th November 2024

31st January 2025

November 2024

7th December 2024

December 2024

7th January 2024

31st March 2025

January 2025

7th February 2025

31st May 2025

February 2025

7th March 2025

March 2025

7th April 2025 (for tax deducted by govt. office)

30th April 2025 (for other deductors)

*For the government deductors, making the TDS via book entry (Treasury Challan) should be deposited on the same day of deduction, whereas for March month by the 7th of April.

TCS Payment Due Dates for FY 2024-25

Tax Collected at Source(TCS) is the tax collected by the seller from the buyer on the sale of specified items and deposited by the seller to the Government.  For other cases, sellers must deposit the TCS amount within 7 days after the end of the month in which the tax was collected. Tax collectors are required to submit a quarterly TCS return in Form 27EQ for the tax collected during that quarter. Form 27D serves as the certificate issued for the filed TCS returns.

The due dates for depositing the tax collected at source and filing of TCS return for the financial year 2023-24 is as shown in the table below - 

Quarter Ending

Due date to file TCS return - Form 27EQ

Due Date for generating Form 27D

For the quarter ending on 30th June

15th July

30th July

For the quarter ending on 30th September

15th October

30th October

For the quarter ending on 31st December

15th January

30th January

For the quarter ending on 31st March

15th May

30th May

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