New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- India is seeing a steady rise in voluntary tax compliance, with millions of individuals updating or revising their income tax returns this fiscal year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said on Tuesday that 3.6 million individuals have either updated or revised their tax returns so far in FY26, as the authority continues to prod assessees to pay the correct amount of tax based on information available with it.

Identified taxpayers are being requested through text messages and email under the 'Non-intrusive Usage of Data to Guide and Enable (NUDGE)' campaign to correct such errors in view of the due date for filing revised returns by 31 December.

Of the 3.6 million assessees, more than 2.1 million have update...