Question : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has met with Salil Parekh, MD & CEO, Infosys regarding irregularities in e-filing portal of Income Tax Department on August 23, 2021. When was the new income tax e-filing portal launched ?
a. 05 May 2021
b. 01 January 2021
c. 01 April 2021
d. None of the abobve
Ans. d.
Related facts —
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has met with Salil Parekh, MD & CEO, Infosys regarding irregularities in e-filing portal of Income Tax Department on August 23, 2021.
- It is noteworthy that earlier this week, Finance Ministry had announced that glitches are expected to be resolved in two-three weeks.
- Background —
- The issue began from launching of new income tax e-filing portal since June 7.
- The new income tax e-filing portal was launched with the motive to ease tax filing process and expedite refund issue.
- However, taxpayers faced many problems accessing and using the portal since the day of it launch.
- Infosys was given the contract to develop the website in starting of year 2019.
- Since January 2019 till June 2021, Infosys has been paid ₹164.5 crore to develop the portal.
- Finance Ministry had called a meeting with IT firm officials on June 22 to discuss the glitches in the new income tax portal and garner suggestions from external shareholders to fix them.
- In the meeting, ICAI(national professional accounting body of India under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Corporate Affairs) representatives highlighted the issues faced by taxpayers and tax professionals on the portal.
By — Pankaj Pandey.