Income Tax Returns filing deadline extended to 10 January The income tax return (ITR) filing deadline for FY 2019-20 has been further extended to January 10, 2021, for most individual taxpayers, from the earlier deadline of December 31, 2020 BusinessToday.In | December 30, 2020 | Updated 20:04 IST ITR filing date further extended to Jan 10 The Central Board of Direct Taxed (CBDT) has extended the last date for filing income tax return (ITR) for FY 2019-20 to January 10, 2021 in view of the pandemic, from the earlier deadline of December 31, 2020. Usually the taxpayers are supposed to file ITR by July 31 but an exception was made this year due to the pandemic. This is the third time the tax return filing deadline for FY2019-20 has been extended. So, if you're running late, you still have roughly 10 more days to sort it out.