Income Tax e-Filing portal – Technical issues are progressively addressed says MoF

Income Tax e-Filing portal – Technical issues are progressively addressed and there has been a positive trend in the statistics of filings on the portal.

The e-Filing portal of the Income Tax Department was launched on 7th June, 2021. Taxpayers and professionals have reported glitches and difficulties in the portal since then. The Ministry of Finance was reported to have been regularly monitoring the resolution of issues with Infosys Ltd which is the Managed Services Provider for the project.

As per the Press Release issued by the Ministry of Finance, a number of technical issues are being progressively addressed and there has been a positive trend reflected in the statistics of the various filings on the portal.

The following statistics have been given to justify the statement:

• Over 8.83 crore unique taxpayers have logged in till 7th September, 2021 with a daily average of over 15.55 lakh in September, 2021. The Income Tax Return (ITR) filing has increased to 3.2 lakh daily in September, 2021 and 1.19 crore ITRs for AY 2021-22 have been filed. Of these, over 76.2 lakh taxpayers have used the online utility of the portal to file the returns.

• over 94.88 lakh ITRs have also been e-verified, which is necessary for processing by the Centralized Processing Center. Of this, 7.07 lakh ITRs have been processed.

• Taxpayers have been able to view over 8.74 lakh Notices issued by the Department under the Faceless Assessment/Appeal/Penalty proceedings, to which, over 2.61 lakh responses have been filed. An average of 8,285 Notices for e-proceedings are being issued and 5,889 responses are being filed in September, 2021 on a daily basis.

• Over 10.60 lakh Statutory Forms have been submitted including 7.86 lakh TDS statements, 1.03 lakh Form 10A for registration of Trusts/institutions, 0.87 lakh Form 10E for arrears of salary, 0.10 lakh Form 35 for Appeal.

• Aadhaar- PAN linking has been done by 66.44 lakh taxpayers and over 14.59 lakh e-PAN have been allotted. These two facilities are being availed of by over 0.50 lakh taxpayers on a daily basis in September, 2021.

The Ministry has reiterated that the Income Tax Department Department is continuously engaged with Infosys to ensure a smooth filing experience to taxpayers.

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