Around 23,000 taxpayers filed their income tax returns (ITR) in the first three days of Assessment Year (AY) 2024-25 (Financial Year 2023-24) after the Income-tax Department for the first time opened return filing utilities on its portal from the first day of the assessment year, that is, April 1, 2024. Last year, even though the returns had been notified early, they became available for filing on the IT portal only in May (for Assessment Year 2023-24 or Financial Year 2022-23). Filing functionalities were available from May 20, 2023 for salaried individuals (ITR-1) and individuals, HUFs, and partnership firms generating an income from a business or profession (ITR-4). The filing utility for individuals and HUFs having income other than income from profits and gains from business or profession was available from May 30 (ITR-2).