Direct (Income) Tax Data: Year-wise Number of Persons Filing Income-Tax Return (Return Filers) and Income-Tax Returns Filed (Including Revised Return)

The dataset contains year-wise Number of Persons Filing Income-Tax Return (Return Filers) and Income-Tax Returns Filed (Including Revised Return) such as Individual, Hindu Undivided Family, Firm, Company, Association of Person, Local Authority, Artificial Juridical Person, Body of Individual Note 1. returns_filers are Persons Filing Income-Tax Return (Return Filers) where as returns_filed denotes Income-Tax Returns Filed (Including Revised Return) 2.The category ‘Others’ includes Government 3. AOP & BOI category has been merged in one category i.e. “Other AOP/BOI”, accordingly data of return for AOP & BOI has been clubbed. 4. PAN Category- ‘Government’ has been changed to PAN Category –‘Others’ 5. In FY 2017-18 and earlier years, returns of two assessment years (current assessment year + belated returns of previous assessment year) could be filed. However, due to change in law, returns of only the current years can be filed from FY 2018-19 onwards. Hence, the marginal decline in returns filed in FY 2018-19