{"id":139932,"date":"2021-06-23T13:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=139932"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:18:36","slug":"income-tax-portal-nirmal-sitharaman-infosys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/income-tax-portal-nirmal-sitharaman-infosys\/","title":{"rendered":"Income tax e-filing portal: Nirmala Sitharaman expresses concerns, Infosys to resolve problem in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finance Ministry&#8217;s top officials on Tuesday held a meeting with Infosys to discuss the problems that are affecting the newly launched income tax portal. During the meeting, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman expressed her concern over the problems that being faced by the many stakeholders while operating the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur, CBDT Chairman Jagannath Mohapatra and few other senior officials. During the meeting, Sitharaman asked Infosys to put extra effort into tax e-portal to make it easier to use the portal without any glitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A meeting was held between senior officers of Finance Ministry &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Infosys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Infosys<\/a> on 22.06.2021 on issues in new Income Tax Portal.The meeting was presided over by Hon\u2019ble FM, Smt. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nsitharaman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nsitharaman<\/a>. MoS(Finance), Sh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianuragthakur<\/a> also participated in the meeting(1\/5)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/USjZV486W7\">https:\/\/t.co\/USjZV486W7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0dDLiyuWJx\">pic.twitter.com\/0dDLiyuWJx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IncomeTaxIndia\/status\/1407357995965505536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitharaman asked Infosys to focus on every problem that affecting the portal without further loss of time, she asked Infosys to improve their services and put the portal on their top priority as it is creating problems for taxpayers adversely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, COO Pravin Rao, and other company&#8217;s top officials said they are reviewing all the problems that affecting the portal and fixing all the bugs, they said the problems noted the issues and will do their best to resolve the problem in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Infosys stated that several of the technical issues had already been resolved &amp; assured that the other glitches would be resolved within a week. The specific timelines shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Infosys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Infosys<\/a> would be placed in public domain subsequently.(5\/5)<\/p>&mdash; Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IncomeTaxIndia\/status\/1407358005457260547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The e-filing portal http:\/\/www.incometax.gov.in was launched on June 7, which was launced for common income taxpayers to file their annual returns for the assessment year 2021-22, but after few hours, the newly launched income tax e-filing portal started showing glitches, basic login issues like inability to generate OTP for Aadhaar validation, \u00a0failure to link old data for past returns, \u00a0password generation glitches and problems in filing returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/mayursinh-vijubha-jadeja-a-man-of-making-ideas-happen\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/mayursinh-vijubha-jadeja-a-man-of-making-ideas-happen\/\">Mayursinh Vijubha Jadeja: A man of making ideas happen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the reports, the Finance Ministry had received more than 800 emails from stakeholders regarding the problems and glitches in the new portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, COO Pravin Rao, and other company&#8217;s top officials said they are reviewing all the problems that affecting the portal and fixing all the bugs, they said the problems noted the issues and will do their best to resolve the problem in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":139938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[1826,21319,103651,103652,18674],"yst_prominent_words":[8063,4624,4613,83560,74108,4077,16566,4560,29894,29889,67705,29186,25136,8247,22168],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/06\/23131325\/fm.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139932"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=139932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=139932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->