The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) announced a 24-hour extension late on September 15 for filing Income Tax Returns for the Assessment Year 2025-26.
However, this short extension failed to alleviate the frustration caused by ongoing technical glitches on the income tax portal. In the critical final days leading up to the September 15 deadline, taxpayers faced persistent issues like login failures, frozen screens, and long delays, resulting in widespread dissatisfaction and stress. Amid these challenges, the government’s decision to extend the deadline by just one day, from September 15 to September 16, was met with widespread disappointment and anger. CAs And Taxpayers Expressed Frustration On X Chartered accountants and taxpayers took to social media to express their outrage. In a social media post on X, CA Atul Modani condemned the move, calling it, “The extension at the end of the due date when your portal was non functional since last 3 days which you very well knew as the daily numbers proved, that too as a beg of 1 day is as useless as functioning your portal and attitude and understanding of decision makers.” “This is done just to save your skin as you know the number of ITRs filed were less than even last year which will come on record. Audacity is so huge that you have not even given the reason for this extension out of shame nor accept your mistake,” he added.
The extension at the end of the due date when your portal was non functional since last 3 days which you very well knew as the daily numbers proved, that too as a beg of 1 day is as useless as functioning your portal and attitude and understanding of decision makers.
This is…— Atul Modani (@atulmodani) September 16, 2025
“You have further wasted 2.30 hours via useless maintenance of the site which you did yesterday also but was not beneficial. This is black day in our democratic country as the rights of taxpayers and Income tax charter were crushed,” Modani said.
X Users Claim Income Tax Portal Glitches On Setember 16
On September 16 as well several taxpayer reported issues with the income tax portal. One X user wrote, “I'm unable to complete ITR filing with this issue of website since 2 days..it's stopping here and session will automatically end. Tried different browesers..systems and cleared cache too but no help. Pl advise.”
Income tax india, last day for filling ITR & website is down!💻 Extend deadline or fix the glitch ASAP! 🕢 #incometax #ITR #UrgentFix pic.twitter.com/lkDXFiFggi
— AfzalKhan (@AfzalKh77326066) September 16, 2025
Another user added, “Even after wasting 2 and half hrs as maintenance. The portal is still useless. Terrible service. We need to suffer just to give away our hard earned money. They just want to loot more.”
