Many benefits will be available in the new avatar of Income Tax site, information from ITR to Tax

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The Income Tax Department is making return filing easier. The department is preparing to introduce a new e-filing web portal for taxpayers. It can be used for filing ITR (Income Tax Return) as well as for other tax related works.

New Delhi, Business Desk. The Income Tax Department is making return filing easier. The department is preparing to introduce a new e-filing web portal for taxpayers. It can be used for filing ITR (Income Tax Return) as well as for other tax related works. The new portal will be more intuitive and convenient. For this, the existing web portal will be closed from 1 to 6 June. After its launch, people will be able to file income tax return from mobile as well.

what will be the benefit

At present, Taxpayer and Charter Accountant have separate logins. The client will be connected to the CA and Advocate login in the new portal. Taxpayers still do not know which ITR we have to file. He used to depend on CA. In the new portal, some simple questions will be asked to the taxpayers, after that the portal will tell which of the ITR 1-2-3 form the taxpayers have to fill.

- Information on regional languages ​​will also be found on the portal. Till now information on this was available only in the English language.

- The new portal will already have the details of TDS, FD and other savings of taxpayers. They will also get the facility to make changes in it.

Till now the color of the portal was blue. The new portal will be visible to the taxpayers in a new color.

- Dashboard will be on the new portal. Now this facility used to be inside the old portal. It is being brought up in the new portal. This allows the taxpayers to know what work they have not done yet.

New portal will start from 7 June

In the order of the system wing of the department, it has been said that the work of moving from the old portal to the new portal will be completed and it will be made operational by June 7. In the order, the officers have been asked to fix a date after June 10 for any hearing or disposal of complaints, so that by then the taxpayers understand the new system. It was also said in the order that in the meantime any work fixed between the taxpayer and the officer of the department can be postponed.

ITR date extended

The central government has earlier extended the deadline for filing income tax returns for the financial year 2020-21 till September 30. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the deadline for companies to file ITRs till 30 November. The CBDT circular states that in view of the pandemic, certain tax compliance deadlines are being extended for taxpayers.

Refund came so much

Income Tax Department has given income tax refund of Rs 25301 crore from 1st April 2021 to 24th May 2021. This refund was given to 15.45 lakh taxpayers. Of these, a total of Rs 7494 crore has been given to 15 lakh 397 people. While 17807 crore rupees have been refunded in 44140 cases.

Tax Refund of last year

In the financial year ended March 31, 2021, the Income Tax Department issued refunds worth Rs 2.62 lakh crore to 2.38 crore taxpayers. The refund issued in the financial year 2020-21 is 43.2 percent more than the refund issued in the previous year. In the financial year 2019-20, refunds worth Rs 1.83 lakh crore were issued.