Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that taxpayers were facing a lot of problems regarding the new income tax portal of the Income Tax Department. All these problems will be fixed within 3 weeks.
Regarding the technical shortcomings of the new IT portal of the Income Tax Department, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the problems coming in the new tax portal will be completely rectified within the next 2-3 weeks. . Earlier, the country’s leading software services company Infosys had also said that it is working expeditiously to remove these flaws. After this, the Finance Ministry expressed hope in the last week of July that the portal will start working normally from the first week of August.
Infosys was
awarded the contract in 2019 Infosys was awarded the contract in 2019 to develop the next generation income tax filing system. The objective behind this was to reduce the return scrutiny time from 63 days to one day and speed up the refund process. After this the new income tax portal www.incometax.gov.in was started on 7 June 2021. From the very beginning, technical problems started coming on the portal. Due to this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had a meeting with Infosys officials on 22 June.
The glitches in the new income tax portal are expected to be fixed entirely in the next 2-3 weeks: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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The Center had also accepted the flaws of the portal in the
Parliament. The Center had said that 700 e-mails were received related to the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department. Of these, there were more than 2000 complaints. Users are facing more than 90 different types of problems in the new e-filing website. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Choudhary had told in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that Infosys, the company that created the new e-filing website, has been informed about the difficulties being faced in the functioning of the portal.
