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

Senior Finance Ministry officers will hold an interactive conference with Infosys on June 22 to explore specialized glitches and grievances in the lately launched Profits Tax e-filing portal. Stakeholders such as ICAI members, auditors, consultants and taxpayers will be a part of the conference.

“Representatives from Infosys will be existing to answer queries, explain issues and receive inputs on the doing work of the protal, to get rid of glitches and form out issues confronted by taxpayers,” the Profits Tax office explained in an formal assertion.

Following IT Department’s much publicised new e-filing portal went dwell June 7 evening, IT filers ongoing to facial area specialized glitches ranging from for a longer period than usual logging time, incapacity to reply to notices and not all attributes functioning nevertheless.

Many people posted tweets tagging the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Last 7 days, FM publicly asked Infosys and its co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani to deal with the grievances in a tweet and “not let taxpayers down”.

Nilekani afterwards certain the FM that the firm was doing work to resolve the difficulty, soon after she lifted issues on tech glitches and grievances on the freshly launched e-filing portal.

Infosys was in 2019 awarded a contract to establish the following-era income tax filing technique to cut down processing time for returns from sixty three times to a person day and expedite refunds.

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