Issues in Income tax return on new e-filing website

 

Issues in filing of Income tax return on new e-filing website

Income tax department had launched the new e-filing website in June and from then it had seen various issues with regard to filing Forms or Income tax return or even reply against any notice.

 issues faced by taxpayers and professionals on the new e-filing portal | E-filing 2.0

Now, it has been said by Income tax department that ITR 1, 2 and 4 are now available for taxpayers to file and recently a statement was also released by Infosys that Around 1 lakh returns have been filed on the new e-filing portal.

In reply to a RTI, it was stated by CPC (center processing centre) of Income tax department that they don’t have any such records or numbers as of now.

Thus, there are lot of issues going on with the new Income tax portal as of now.

On of such issues which people are facing right now is that they are able to prepare income tax return, even submit the return but are unable to verify the income tax return as they are not receiving any OTP neither for Aadhar or bank.

There are few people who have been able to file the return but the process is not that smooth and number of people who have been able to file return is very low as compared to people facing issues.

Thus, one needs to be patient and wait for the portal to work correctly and then file Income tax return.

 

As of now the due date for filing Income tax return which was normally 31st July has been extended to September 30.

Thus, there is enough time to file your income tax return and hence one should not hurry but many people have to submit Income tax return for loan purposes or to renew their OD limit etc and they are finding it difficult to file Income tax return.

Below are some top  issues which are being faced by the taxpayers and professional while using the new e-filing portal 2.0:

1. No option to register or update DSC and people are complaining that same has been recently removed by the ITD (Income tax department) on portal.
2. People Facing difficulty in registering New Incorporated companies or Firms on ITD Portal.
3. Many user manual’s provided by ITD on new portal are not opening.
4. People are not able to reset password as forget password option not working.
5. Many people are facing issue in downloading IT Returns IT acknowledgements in PDF.
6. Professionals are not getting any option or tab to file any Income tax forms.
7. E proceedings tabs shows as “coming soon” and people cannot even see the notices received or reply to any notice.
8. VSV tab is not available on new portal.
9. People are not able to file to file TDS Returns on the new portal.
10. Filing procedure of Form 15CA and 15CB changed and people are Unable to file 15CA/15CB.
11. People are not able to view grievances registered on ITD website.
12. Old demands outstanding are not getting reflected.
13. Although utility has been made available for filing Income tax return but people are unable to file Income Tax Returns for FY 2020-21.
14. People are not able to to raise refund reissue request.
15. People are facing difficulty to view Form 26AS.
16. Mismatch in PAN Data is shown even when there is no mismatch.
17. Portal shows profile incomplete and ask to update contact details even when all mandatory details are filled. Now they might even make landline compulsory in this age of mobile phone.
18. Professionals are not able to update UDIN for last month audit and other certification.
19. No option to file rectification of return.
20. Other statutory offline utility not available. For eg: Offline utility for Form 15CB etc.

Although there might be more issues which you must be facing as many issues changes from profile to profile, but we have listed top  which majority people are facing, so do comment any issues which you are facing so that same is communicated to the government.