The Income Tax Department has clarified that circulation of Fake order dated 26.9.2015 for extension of due date for filing of Audit report and return of Income for Assessment Year 2015-16 is fraudulent. The Government has not extended the due date for filing of returns and audit report due by 30th September 2015. Tax payers and practitioners are advised not to give any credence to the fraudulent order.

 It has been brought to the notice of the Government that a fake order dated 26th September 2015 supposedly under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act 1961 under the signature of one Upmanyu Reddy, Under Secretary to the Government of India is in circulation. The fake order extends the due date for filing of audit report under section 119 of the Income-tax Act to 15 October 2015.

 It is clarified the order is fraudulent. The Government has not extended the due date for filing of returns and audit report due by 30th September 2015. Tax payer and practitioners are advised not to give any credence to the fraudulent order purportedly signed by one Upmanyu Reddy.

No extension of filing deadline: due date for income tax returns and audit reports remains; disregard fraudulent extension orders. No extension of the statutory due date for filing income-tax returns and audit reports is in effect; the deadline remains 30 September 2015. A circulated order dated 26 September 2015 purporting to extend the filing date is fraudulent and was not issued by the Government. Taxpayers and practitioners are advised to disregard the purported order and to comply with existing filing obligations by the original due date.