The latest e-filing web portal was successfully launched on 7, June 2021 by the income tax department on the website www.incometax.gov.in. the motive to launch the new e-filing portal is aimed at giving the assessee convenience and a modern, seamless experience to the assessee.
FM Instructs Infosys to Develop Taxpayer Friendly New E-portal
On Tuesday FM Nirmala Sitharaman said Infosys and the Chairman of Infosys Nandan Nilekani to rectify the technical issues which are been faced on the income tax department’s new e-filing website, post to the users complained on her Twitter. Infosys was in 2019 conferred a contract to promote the next-generation income tax filing system to lessen the processing time for the returns from 63 days to one day and facilitate the refunds.
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17th August 2021
- Nandan Nilekani Infosys co-founder and chairman said to FM that the new Income tax portal 2.0 is fully functional within 2-3 days for taxpayers.
27th July 2021
- The minister of state finance Pankaj Chaudary said in Lok Sabha that the central government paid the total amount of INR 164.5 crores to Infosys for the new 2.0 tax e-filing portal & centralized processing centre (CPC) 2.0 project.
22th June 2021
- Infosys to the FM: Most of the technical issues on the income tax e-filing 2.0 portal such as downloading TDS forms, e-proceedings, the database of previous years’ ITRs, foreign remittances, etc will be resolved within a week.
15th June 2021
- “The IT department officials to meet with the Infosys team on 22nd June 2021 to discuss about technical issues of the new e-Filing 2.0 portal.” View More
15th June 2021
- “The IT department officials to meet with the Infosys team on 22nd June 2021 to discuss about technical issues of the new e-Filing 2.0 portal.” View More
“In preparation for the transition to the new system, the existing tax e-filing portal will not be available to both taxpayers as well as department officers for a period of six days from June 1 to June 6,” the notice said.
Furthermore, IT Officers have also been given instructions to schedule compliances or hearings after June 10 for the simple reason that the taxpayers can be accustomed to the new web portal. Pre-scheduled hearings shall be postponed to after June 10.
“It is clarified that ITBA and CPC system will continue to function for assessment-related functions. All orders, notices issued during the period will be visible to taxpayers after the new portal goes live on June 7,” the notice said
Now coming to officers of the tax department including principal commissioner income tax, chief income tax officers for appeal and assessing officers shall interconnect with taxpayers through e-proceedings via a web portal.
The aforesaid officers shall also use the web portal for issuance of show-cause notices, notices, e-proceedings, questionnaires, and so on & so forth. Read Official PDF for New ITR Filing Web Portal
Benefits of Advanced ITR Filing New Web Portal for Taxpayers
Gone are the days when a customer was contented with limited features. Check out the exclusive traits of our new income tax e-filing portal that will be user friendly and lend you a helping hand:
- The updated taxpayer-friendly portal will be integrated with the immediate processing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs). Consequently, the aforesaid feature shall facilitate quick refunds to taxpayers.
- All interactions and uploads along with pending actions will be displayed on a single common dashboard for regular follow-ups by the taxpayer.
- Cost-free additional feature of ITR preparation facilitated by our software — available offline and online with interactive questions to lend a helping hand to taxpayers while filing ITR. This can be facilitated even without possessing any tax knowledge, with pre-filling,and for minimum data entry effort.
- “Free of cost ITR preparation software available with interactive questions to help taxpayers for ITRs 1, 4 (online and offline) and ITR 2 (offline) to begin with; Facility for preparation of ITRs 3, 5, 6, 7 will be made available shortly.”
- “Taxpayers will be able to proactively update their profile to provide certain details of income including salary, house property, business/profession which will be used in pre-filling their ITR. Detailed enablement of pre-filling with salary income, interest, dividend and capital gains will be available after TDS and SFT statements are uploaded (due date is June 30th, 2021);”
- “Functionalities for filing Income Tax Forms, Add tax professionals, Submit responses to Notices in Faceless Scrutiny or Appeals would be available.”
- New call centre established for providing immediate answers to queries of taxpayers along with FAQs, Tutorials, Videos etc.
- All the “key portal functions on the desktop” will be accessible on the mobile app. So you can interact with our software anywhere everywhere and anytime
- New feature of the online tax payment system on the new web portal will entail multiple new payment options such as net banking, UPI, RTGS, NEFT and other modes.
