New online tax payment system, mobile app to be launched today

 







The new online tax payment system and a mobile app on its advanced e-filing website will be activated on June 18.

“It is clarified that the new tax payment system will be launched on June 18, 2021, after the advance tax installment date to avoid any taxpayer inconvenience,” the CBDT said in a statement earlier.

Take a look at the features of the new e-filing portal

The new taxpayer-friendly portal is integrated with immediate processing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) to issue quick refunds to taxpayers and all interactions and uploads or pending actions will be displayed on a single dashboard for follow-up action by the taxpayer, it said.

It will also have a free ITR preparation software with interactive questions to help taxpayers to file ITRs 1, 4 (online and offline) and ITR 2 (offline) to begin with and the facility for preparation of ITRs 3, 5, 6, 7 will be made available shortly, the statement said.

Taxpayers will be able to proactively update their profile to provide certain details of income including salary, house property, business/profession which will be used in pre-filling their ITR in the new web port.

Detailed enablement of pre-filling with salary income, interest, dividend and capital gains will be available after TDS (tax deducted at source) and SFT (statement of financial transaction) statements are uploaded (due date June 30, 2021), it said.

A new call center for taxpayer assistance for prompt response to taxpayer queries is also planned and the portal will have detailed FAQs, user manuals, videos and chatbot/live agent also.

IT e-filing portal glitches: FinMin officials to meet Infosys team

Finance ministry officials will meet representatives of Infosys on June 22 to discuss issues and glitches in the new income tax e-filing portal as users continue to face inconvenience even after a week of its launch.

As taxpayers continued to face issues with the portal, the Income Tax Department on Monday eased certain norms for filing tax forms for remittances by allowing manual filings.

“The new portal has been fraught with several technical glitches/ issues leading to taxpayer inconvenience. Written representations on the problems/ difficulties faced in the portal have also been invited from the stakeholders.

The new portal, ‘https://www.incometax.gov.in”www.incometax.gov.in’, was launched on June 7, with the IT Department, as well as the government, saying it was aimed at making compliance more taxpayer-friendly.

Users complained of technical issues while using the site from the very first day and not everything has been fixed even after a week, chartered accountants had said, adding that taxpayers were unable to view past e-filed returns and many features/ facilities continue to be marked ‘coming soon’.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman herself had asked Infosys and its Chairman Nandan Nilekani to fix the technical glitches.

A day after the launch of the portal, social media users had flagged glitches to the finance minister. The minister took to Twitter and asked Infosys and its Chairman to fix the problem.

Replying to the tweet, Nilekani had said Infosys is working to fix the glitches.

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