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

Senior Finance Ministry officers will keep an interactive meeting with Infosys on June 22 to examine complex glitches and grievances in the a short while ago launched Money Tax e-submitting portal. Stakeholders together with ICAI customers, auditors, consultants and taxpayers will be a element of the meeting.

“Associates from Infosys will be current to remedy queries, make clear troubles and get inputs on the performing of the protal, to eliminate glitches and kind out troubles confronted by taxpayers,” the Money Tax office stated in an official statement.

Right after IT Department’s a great deal publicised new e-submitting portal went reside June seven night time, IT filers ongoing to deal with complex glitches ranging from lengthier than typical logging time, incapacity to react to notices and not all options working however.

Several consumers posted tweets tagging the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

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

Nilekani later on assured the FM that the enterprise was performing to solve the difficulty, soon after she raised concerns on tech glitches and grievances on the recently launched e-submitting portal.

Infosys was in 2019 awarded a deal to create the next-era money tax submitting system to reduce processing time for returns from sixty three times to just one day and expedite refunds.

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