The appeal has been refused by the Rajasthan high court towards the elimination of the issues in the income tax portal.
The PIL furnished via the tax bar association of Jodhpur states various issues by taxpayers towards the errors in the portal of the income tax department. The extension of the time limit is important until all errors get resolved or if the council permits the time extension to furnish the returns & audit reports but the portal would not accept the proper declaration the same time extension is of no use and gets wasted off. The request by the petitioner is that the income tax department must eliminate all the defects and issues in the official portal.
Chief Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice Rekha Borana held that the requests made by the applicant are rather wide and non-specific. “At this stage, we leave it to the administration to deal with these issues at its level. We are hopeful that proper resolution of the difficulties of assessees would be made at the level of the administration itself without the requirement of Court’s intervention, the court said.”
“Court mentioned that We are of the view that at this stage, we are not inclined to entertain the same. Firstly, as noted, there has been across a board extension of the last dates for compliances. Presumably, these extensions are granted because the Government of India had realized that on account of technical difficulties, several assesses may not have been in a position to make the compliances,.”
The court mentioned nothing is here to presume that the administration has not provided of these defects and that effective procedure to eliminate these defects is to be avail so that the extension of the last date for the tax compliances does not remain illusory but the assesses can meaningfully take advantage of such extension.
