The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided to extend the due date deadlines for the financial year 2020-21 (AY 2021-22) income tax returns (ITR) due to the crash and glitches faced on the income tax website.
As per the reports, 30th September 2021 is the last date for the ITR filing but now it may get extended to the improper working of the portal and several crashes while filing ITR. The latest income tax portal was recently launched on 7 June for a safe and secure filing of income taxes and is still equipped with multiple new-gen features.
However, the websites crashed a lot and faced multiple glitches which made the website go down and now it has made the taxpayers and professionals in midst of issues on how to finalize the tax returns on time.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has also arranged a meeting with the Infosys head managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) Salil Parekh to discuss the issues within the portal.
In the recent tweet, the department has openly mentioned the Infosys fault in this by tweeting, “Ministry of Finance has summoned Salil Parekh, MD CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 to explain to hon’ble FM as to why even after 2.5 months since the launch of new e-filing portal, glitches in the portal have not been resolved. In fact, since 21/08/2021 the portal itself is not available.”
