While countries across the world are going through a major economic crisis due to the Coronavirus outbreak, a message is being circulated in India, that claims that the financial year 2019-20 has been extended.
The message claims that the FY 2019-2020 will now be closing on June 30, 2020, making it a period of 15 months instead of 12.
Financial Year 2019-20 Will be closed on 30/6 15 Months , Not on 31/03 .
20-21 Will of 9 Months pic.twitter.com/hsluSKKmMx— Vijay K Gupta 🇮🇳 (@vijayguptasgr) March 23, 2020
As an extraordinary measure , financial year 2019-20 period to be extended for 15 months to avoid undue pressure on corporates. This will ease all companies to isolate their staffs and fight Corona in better ways. @narendramodi @nsitharaman @PMOIndia #financialstimuluscorona
— Amit Kumar (@amit4011642) March 22, 2020
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NewsMobile fact-checked the above post and found that this news is false.
The confusion arose after the government postponed deadlines for filing tax. Also, because of COVID-19, several companies and stakeholders had asked the government for an extension of the current financial year to 15-months.
However, denying all these claims, the Ministry of Finance, on March 30, 2020, said that the financial year is not being extended.
No extension of the Financial Year: There is a fake news circulating in some section of media that the financial year has been extended.@nsitharamanoffc @Anurag_Office @PIB_India @DDNewslive @airnewsalerts
— Ministry of Finance 🇮🇳 #StayHome #StaySafe (@FinMinIndia) March 30, 2020
The ministry said, “a notification issued by the Government of India on 30th March 2020 with respect to some other amendments done in the Indian Stamp Act is being misquoted. There is no extension of the Financial Year.”
This proves that the viral message is false.
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