Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has expressed displeasure over the technical glitch issued in the new portal of the Income Tax Department.
New Delhi. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday and Salil Parekh, MD and CEO of the country’s leading software service company Infosys, amidst technical shortcomings in the new portal of the Income Tax Department. Salil Parekh) met. Expressing displeasure, the Finance Minister raised the issue during his meeting with Parekh that why the portal is not working smoothly even after a lapse of about two and a half months.
According to Moneycontrol, the Finance Minister has given Infosys time till September 15 to correct the discrepancies in the new e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department.
The Finance Minister took a meeting with Infosys MD Salil Parekh to convey deep disappointment & concerns of Govt & taxpayers about continuing glitches in the e-filing portal of Income Tax Department even after two & half months since its launch: Finance Ministry https://t.co/6XOt3WSXuC pic.twitter.com/K8XkxtS9NY
— ANI (@ANI) August 23, 2021
Let us tell you that Infosys has prepared this portal itself. Earlier on Sunday, the Income Tax Department had said that the Finance Minister has summoned Parekh and he has been asked to clarify things on the problems. This is the second time that the Finance Minister has discussed the issue of the portal with the Infosys team. Earlier on June 22, he spoke to Infosys COO Praveen Rao on this issue.
Infosys got the contract in the year 2019 Infosys was given 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.
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.
