Is there any time limit for Income Tax Refund? I-T Department responds

financialexpress.com:

Even as several days have passed since the end of the due date of ITR filing for AY 2023-24, several taxpayers are waiting for refunds. July 31 was the due date of Income Tax Return filing for taxpayers whose accounts don’t need to be audited.

Following the regulatory obligation of ITR filing before the due date, more than 6.7 crore taxpayers filed their returns by July 31. However, the Income Tax Department is yet to process all the returns filed by July 31, which is apparently the reason behind the delay in refunds in some cases.

Many taxpayers, who have not received refunds, have been complaining to the Income Tax Department on the X platform (formerly Twitter) regarding delays in their refunds. One such taxpayer named Devidas Mane on August 16 asked whether there is a time limit for refunds. He claimed to have filed ITR in June 2023 itself but his refund was not yet processed.

While replying to Mane, the Income Tax Department asked him to share his grievance acknowledgement number to escalate the issue with the team concerned. When the taxpayer shared the acknowledgement number, the IT Department assured him saying they have forwarded the grievance acknowledgement numbers to the team concerned and they are looking into it.

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Many other taxpayers have also shared similar complaints with the Income Tax Department on X.

On August 17, a taxpayer named Sandeep Singh claimed he had submitted ITR on Jule 13th but had not received any refund.

On August 16, a taxpayer named Manish Solanki said he had filed his ITR on 14th June and also e-verified it. But his return has not been processed even after two months of ITR filing.

On August 17, a