Tax portal glitches: FinMin to hold a meeting with Infosys on June 22

Senior Finance Ministry officials will keep an interactive conference with Infosys on June 22 to talk about technological glitches and grievances in the not long ago launched Income Tax e-submitting portal. Stakeholders such as ICAI users, auditors, consultants and taxpayers will be a component of the conference.

“Reps from Infosys will be present to answer queries, clarify troubles and acquire inputs on the doing work of the protal, to eliminate glitches and type out troubles faced by taxpayers,” the Income Tax department reported in an official assertion.

Just after IT Department’s a great deal publicised new e-submitting portal went are living June 7 evening, IT filers ongoing to facial area technological glitches ranging from extended than usual logging time, inability to reply to notices and not all functions working still.

A lot of people posted tweets tagging the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Previous week, FM publicly asked Infosys and its co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani to tackle the grievances in a tweet and “not permit taxpayers down”.

Nilekani afterwards confident the FM that the organization was doing work to take care of the issue, following she lifted fears on tech glitches and grievances on the recently launched e-submitting portal.

Infosys was in 2019 awarded a agreement to acquire the future-era revenue tax submitting method to reduce processing time for returns from 63 days to just one working day and expedite refunds.

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