Income Tax Deadline 31 Dec 2025: CBDT NUDGE Campaign Flags Wrong Refund Claims, Revised ITRs Top 15 Lakh, Foreign Asset Disclosures in Spotlight
New Delhi | December 23, 2025 — With just days left before the year-end cut-off for revising income tax returns, India’s tax administration has stepped up a tech-led “trust-first” outreach that is reshaping how refunds, deductions and foreign asset disclosures are being policed. On December 23, 2025, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said it has rolled out a data-driven NUDGE campaign for Assessment Year (AY) 2025–26, urging taxpayers to voluntarily review and correct deduction and exemption claims that its risk analytics has flagged as potentially ineligible — including suspected cases of bogus donations to Registered Unrecognised Political Parties