The Income Tax department witnessed a record filing of I-T returns up to August 31. Around 5.65 crore income tax returns were filed. On September 1, the Income Tax released a data that showed till August end, there was a 4% surge in filings for financial year 2018-19, compared with the 5.4 crore returns that were filed up to August 31, 2018. The Income Tax department tweeted, " Out of the 5.65 crore ITRs filed so far, 3.61 crore ITRs have been verified. A large number of taxpayers, about 2.86 crore (79%) have opted for e-verification, mostly using Aadhaar OTP." In another tweet, the department said, " Such huge online e-filing of ITRs on a single day was achieved by the smooth functioning of the efiling portal, with the IT department actively interacting with taxpayers on social media to help them resolve their grievances and e-filing related queries."