Tax audit due date — the report and the return are a month apart
The audit report comes first and your auditor files it; the return follows a month later. Planning for the later date means missing the earlier one.
Signed and uploaded by your auditor — due a month before the return, not with it. "44AB" is the 1961-Act section; the Income-tax Act, 2025 renumbers it and its forms from tax year 2026-27, the audit itself remains
The return itself, in audit cases — a month after the audit report
Cortex shows the statutory dates that apply to you on your dashboard and compliance calendar, ahead of the day, alongside your receivables, your payables and the MSME 45-day clock. Upload a Tally, Vyapar or Busy export and it reads your numbers as they come.
General information, not tax advice. Your own dates depend on your registration, turnover and constitution — check with your CA.