The Finance Ministry has issued summons to Infosys MD and CEO Salil Parekh amid technical deficiencies in the new IT Portal of the Income Tax Department.
New Delhi. Many problems are coming in the new portal of Income Tax Department. Meanwhile, the Finance Ministry has issued summons to Salil Parekh, MD and CEO of Infosys, the country’s leading software services company. In the summons, he has been asked to give information about the disturbances in the portal.
It has been said in the summons that Salil Parekh should tell Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 23 August why the disturbances in the e-filing portal are continuing even after two and a half months. The Finance Ministry has asked Parekh why even after so many days the glitch related to the portal could not be rectified. Taxpayers are facing huge problems. From August 21, this portal is not available for taxpayers as some technical flaws are being reported in it.
Ministry of Finance has summoned Sh Salil Parekh,MD&CEO @Infosys on 23/08/2021 to explain to hon’ble FM as to why even after 2.5 months since 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.
— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) August 22, 2021
The new portal was started on 7th June
The new income tax portal www.incometax.gov.in (www.incometax.gov.in) was launched with great enthusiasm on 7th June. There are technical problems on the portal since the beginning. Due to this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had a meeting with Infosys officials on 22 June. Infosys has prepared this new website.
