Ashneer Grover said that politicians can say anything on tax in a political rally and get away with it because only 0.5 percent of voters pay any meaningful income tax .
This has come after the Income Tax Department for the first time launched the return filing utilities on its portal from the first day of the assessment year, that is, April 1, 2024.
For the first time in many years, the IT Department has opened return filing utilities on the first day of the new financial year. Some 23,000 taxpayers filed their ITRs between April1 and April 3. But tax experts suggest waiting until updated AIS and Form 26AS are available.