Infosys CEO Summoned By Finance Minister Over Income Tax Portal Issue

Amid the technical glitches being confronted by the brand new earnings tax e-filing portal, because of which it has been unavailable for 2 consecutive days, the Finance Ministry has summoned the Managing Director and CEO of Infosys, Salil Parekh on Monday, August 23, to present an evidence to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman relating to the matter.

Mr Parekh has been summoned to North Block, as even after greater than two months of its launch on June 7, the brand new earnings tax e-filing portal continues to face technical glitches with customers complaining that many sections are both not functioning or are working gradual.

“Ministry of Finance has summoned Sh Salil Parekh, MD &CEO @Infosys on August 23, 2021 to clarify to hon’ble FM as to why even after 2.5 months since launch of latest e-filing portal, glitches within the portal haven’t been resolved. Actually, since August 21, 2021 the portal itself is just not accessible,” the earnings tax division tweeted.

Earlier on June 22 too, Ms Sitharaman had referred to as a gathering with Infosys officers and had requested them to rectify all of the glitches as quickly as potential and deal with all of the grievances of taxpayers.

Nevertheless with not a lot progress made on that entrance and other people nonetheless dealing with issues whereas dealing with the portal, this time the CEO of Infosys himself has been summoned to present an evidence.

Owing to the issues within the web site just lately, the earnings tax division had introduced that it’s going to refund all late charges and extra curiosity charged from taxpayers.

A number of taxpayers who had filed their earnings tax return for 2020-21 after July 31, have been charged curiosity and late charges regardless of the extension of the deadline. The final date for submitting return for the final monetary yr has been prolonged until September 30, 2021.

The earnings tax division had even allowed handbook submitting of remittance kinds in order that taxpayers do not get inconvenienced as a result of malfunctioning web site.