India Tax filing deadlines
India Tax filing deadlines: 4 deadline rules held, cited to 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Tax Payments FAQ. Last checked against the official source on 13 Oct 2026.
Official source: 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Tax Payments · Last checked 2026-10-13 · source fingerprint
Recurring statutory filing and payment deadlines in India for PAYE/payroll withholding, corporate income tax returns and provisional payments, held as rules, each cited to the official source with the verbatim phrase that states it. The API computes the actual due dates from these rules, rolled for this country's weekend and national public holidays, and lists every day it stepped over.
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| Current value | 4 deadline rules |
|---|---|
| In force from | — |
| Official source | 4 rules, each cited to its own official source; series-level citation is the first VAT rule's: Tax Payments FAQ — Income Tax Department (incometax.gov.in) |
| Last verified | 2026-10-13 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
RULES, NOT DATES. Each rule carries its own citation, anchor phrase and last_confirmed; the series last_confirmed is the oldest of them. effective_from is null on purpose: the rules rest on different instruments with different commencement dates, and no single date would be true of all of them. The paid response adds due_dates, computed from the rules over a window (default the next 365 days; from/to/year_end/tax query parameters). scripts/deadline-verify.mjs re-fetches every cited source and re-finds every anchor.
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Each rule is cited to the official source, with the phrase that states it. A machine re-reads every cited source and re-finds that phrase; a rule whose phrase disappears is flagged for review.
| Tax | Obligation | Frequency | Due | Weekend / holiday | Official source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAYE / payroll withholding | TDS (including on salaries) — deposit to the credit of the Central Government, April–February deductions Deductors other than an office of the Government (non-government deductors), deductions made in April–February | monthly | 7th day of the following month | source silent; not moved, flagged | Tax Payments FAQ — Income Tax Department (incometax.gov.in) “be deposited to the credit of the central government within the 7th of the month following the month of deduction” | 2026-10-13 |
| PAYE / payroll withholding | TDS — deposit of tax deducted in March (non-government deductors) Non-government deductors, tax deducted in the month of March | annual | 30th day of the following month | source silent; not moved, flagged | Tax Payments FAQ — Income Tax Department (incometax.gov.in) “tds deducted in the month of march, where the due date is 30th april for non -government deductors” | 2026-10-13 |
| Corporate income tax | Advance tax instalments (15 June, 15 September, 15 December, 15 March) Assessees, including companies, liable to advance tax (tax payable for the year Rs. 10,000 or more) | quarterly | 15th day of months 3, 6, 9, 12 of the tax year | source silent; not moved, flagged | File ITR-1 (Sahaj) Online – FAQs — Income Tax Department… “45% of tax liability (-) advance tax already paid on or before 15 th september” | 2026-10-13 |
| Corporate income tax | Return of income — companies (and audited persons), due 31 October Companies (other than those required to furnish a transfer-pricing report) and persons whose accounts must be audited — 'Serial No. 2' of the due-date table | annual | 31st day of the 7th month after the period ends | source silent; not moved, flagged | CBDT extends due date for furnishing Return of Income for AY 2026-27… “is 31st October, 2026 in the case of persons mentioned at Serial No. 2 in the Table below Explanation 2 to sub-section (1) of section 139” | 2026-10-13 |
Due in the next 120 days
| Due date | Obligation | Period | Statutory date, if moved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | Return of income — companies (and audited persons), due 31 October | 2025-04-01 – 2026-03-31 | — |
| 2026-11-07 | TDS (including on salaries) — deposit to the credit of the Central Government, April–February deductions | 2026-10-01 – 2026-10-31 | — |
| 2026-12-07 | TDS (including on salaries) — deposit to the credit of the Central Government, April–February deductions | 2026-11-01 – 2026-11-30 | — |
| 2026-12-15 | Advance tax instalments (15 June, 15 September, 15 December, 15 March) (instalment 3 of 4) | 2026-04-01 – 2027-03-31 | — |
| 2027-01-07 | TDS (including on salaries) — deposit to the credit of the Central Government, April–February deductions | 2026-12-01 – 2026-12-31 | — |
| 2027-02-07 | TDS (including on salaries) — deposit to the credit of the Central Government, April–February deductions | 2027-01-01 – 2027-01-31 | 2027-02-07 2027-02-07 Sunday roll unverified |
Business days exclude this country's weekly rest days (Sunday, Saturday (2nd & 4th of the month)) and the NATIONAL public holidays in its public-holidays series. Regional holidays are not applied. Each due date is computed from the cited rule; the rule is the citable fact, the date is our arithmetic on it. Thresholds, elections, extensions and sector regimes that move a taxpayer between rules are described in each rule's applies_to and notes, not decided here. RBI (Gazette notification 20/08/2015, s.25 NI Act, effective 2015-09-01): banks are closed on Sundays and the 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month; other Saturdays are full working days. Where roll_unverified is true the statutory date is not a business day and the cited source does not say whether the deadline moves earlier or later. We do not guess: due_date is the statutory date, and the adjustments list names the conflict.
Not covered here
We hold no verified rule for these taxes in IN. Each reason is given; where a deadline exists but its source could not be verified, we hold none rather than guess.
- VAT / GST: A rule was researched but failed verification against its official source when seeded (2026-10-13), so none is served.
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