Income Tax Alert: New e-filing Income Tax website launch in June 2021: The Income Tax Department may launch a new e-filing web portal for taxpayers early next month, according to a report by news agency PTI. The new e-filing portal will be used to file routine ITRs and perform other tax-related works.
The existing web portal will be shut for six days between June 1 to June 6 even as the officials claimed the new portal will be made more user-friendly, the PTI report said.
Income Tax E-filing New Website – All You Need To Know
An order issued by the systems wing of the department on Wednesday said the “transition” from the old portal — www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in — to the new –www.incometaxgov.in — will be completed and made operational from June 7. The report quoted officials as saying that the new portal will be made more user-friendly.
The order further said that in preparation of this launch and for migration activities, the existing portal of the department at www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in would not be available for a brief period of six days from June 1 to 6.
The exiting portal will “not be available” to both the taxpayers as well as Income Tax Department officers during this period, it said.
“All officers may be directed to fix any hearing or compliance only from June 10 onward to give taxpayers time to respond to the new system,” it said.
Any work scheduled between the taxpayer and the assessing officer of the department may be preponed or adjourned, the order said.
The e-filing portal is used by the taxpayers to file their individual or business category income tax returns (ITRs) and also to raise complaints seeking refunds and other works with the tax department.
The taxman uses it to issue notices, get responses from the taxpayer and respond to their queries and to communicate final orders like assessments, appeals, exemption and penalties, among others.
What is e-filing portal?
The Income Tax e-filing portal is used by the taxpayers to file their individual or business category income tax returns (ITRs) and also to raise complaints seeking refunds and other works with the tax department. The Income Tax department uses the portal to issue notices, get responses from taxpayers and respond to their queries and to communicate final orders like assessments, appeals, exemption and penalties, among others.
