The new portal will have free ITR preparation software available both online and offline and will have interactive questions so that taxpayers can file their ITRs easily even if they are not aware of the tax.
New Delhi. Finance Ministry’s new income tax portal www.incometax.gov.in will be launched today. It is being told that the new portal will be more modern and will be very easy for the taxpayers. Because its purpose is to reduce the hassle for the taxpayers. At present, the filing of Income Tax Returns and Forms is currently done on the portal www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in. Earlier this portal used to facilitate online filing of income tax returns, audit reports and many other forms. In the last few years, many other modules have also been added to it which allow faceless assessment, appeal and reply to notices. These come under its compliance section.
these problems were coming
The existing portal is currently working well, but near the due date, there have been incidents of problems in its functioning. Apart from this, there are cases of taxpayers having low capacity in uploading documents, filing audit reports or responding to assessments or other notices. At the same time, it is also quite confusing for many taxpayers.
These will be some of the important features in the new income tax portal
1- The new taxpayer friendly portal can process Income Tax Return (ITR) immediately, so that refunds of taxpayers can be issued quickly.
2- All the interactions and upload or pending actions will be visible on a single dashboard so that taxpayers can complete them.
3- The free ITR preparation software will be available both online and offline and will have interactive questions so that taxpayers can easily file their ITR even if they are not aware of the tax. In this, the information will be prefilled and this will greatly reduce the data entry work of the taxpayers.
4- To help taxpayers, there will be a new call center in which their questions will be answered immediately, along with tutorials, videos and things like chatbot / live agent will also be in it.
5- All major portal functions found on desktop will also be available on the mobile app, which will allow full access anytime on the mobile network afterwards.
6- A new online tax payment system will be implemented on the new portal and many new payment options will be given in it. These will have payment options like Netbanking, UPI, Credit Card and RTGS/NEFT. Taxpayers will be able to pay their taxes from any bank.
