New Income Tax India E-Filing Website: LAUNCHED! Features, Details, Benefits, Portal Link And More Highlights For Taxpayers

New Income Tax India E-Filing Portal, Website - The Income Tax Department has launched its new e-filing portal www.incometax.gov.in on 7th June, 2021.

-Income Tax India tweeted, "We are as excited about the new portal as our users! We are at the final stages in the roll-out of the new portal and it will be available shortly. We appreciate your patience as we work towards making it operational soon.

We are as excited about the new portal as our users!
We are at the final stages in the roll-out of the new portal and it will be available shortly. We appreciate your patience as we work towards making it operational soon.#NewPortal

— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) June 7, 2021

- "Stay tuned! #NewPortal #eFiling," Income Tax India tweeted.

Stay tuned!#NewPortal #eFiling pic.twitter.com/8x1iUK0CZc

— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) June 6, 2021

HIGHLIGHTS: New Income Tax India E-Filing Portal, Website

The new e-filing portal is aimed at providing taxpayer convenience and a modern, seamless experience to taxpayers. Some of the highlights of the new portal are detailed hereunder:

-New taxpayer friendly portal integrated with immediate processing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) to issue quick refunds to taxpayers;

-All interactions and uploads or pending actions will be displayed on a single dashboard for follow-up action by taxpayer;

-Free of cost ITR preparation software available with interactive questions to help taxpayers for ITRs 1, 4 (online and offline) and ITR 2 (offline) to begin with; Facility for preparation of ITRs 3, 5, 6, 7 will be made available shortly;

-Taxpayers will be able to proactively update their profile to provide certain details of income including salary, house property, business/profession which will be used in pre-filling their ITR. Detailed enablement of pre-filling with salary income, interest, dividend and capital gains will be available after TDS and SFT statements are uploaded (due date is June 30th, 2021);

-New call center for taxpayer assistance for promt response to taxpayer queries. Detailed FAQs, User Manuals, Videos and chatbot/live agent also provided;

-Functionalities for filing Income Tax Forms, Add tax professionals, Submit responses to Notices in Faceless Scrutiny or Appeals would be available.

"It is clarified that the new tax payment system will be launched on June 18th, 2021 after the advance tax instalment date to avoid any taxpayer inconvenience. The mobile app will also be released subsequent to the initial launch of the portal, to enable taxpayers to get familiar with the various features. Familiarization with the new system may take some time, so, the Department requests the patience of all taxpayers/stakeholders for the initial period after the launch of the new portal and while other functionalities get released since this is a major transition. This is another initiative by CBDT towards providing ease of compliance to its taxpayers and other stakeholders," Ministry of Finance said in a statement.