New Income Tax E-Filing Portal To Be Launched on June 7; Check New Features of the Taxpayer-friendly e-filing Website

New Delhi, June 5: The Income Tax Department is set to launch its new e-filing portal www.incometax.gov.in on June 7, 2021. The new e-filing portal is aimed at providing taxpayer convenience and a modern, seamless experience to taxpayers. The revamped website comes with a host of new facilities for taxpayers like immediate processing of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) to issue quick refunds to taxpayers, Free of cost ITR preparation software, among other things.

Some of the highlights of the Income Tax E-Filing 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 taxpayers.
• 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 prompt 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 18, 2021 after the advance tax installment 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. New Income Tax E-Filing Portal To Roll Out From June 7; Know Benefits and 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.