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The e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department is undertaking a facelift. This will bring ease to the process of filing returns. The new name of the website will be www.incometax.gov.in. Earlier it had a longer name with the word e-filing in the name but now it will be a shorter name with a promise of user-friendly features. The new website will help taxpayers in assessing their income, due tax and any refund if liable with much ease than before. This is just the beginning. The income tax department is all set to launch a mobile app as well so that income tax payment is just one click away.
Here are 8 things that will change for Income Tax payers with the new website –
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The dashboard will have all the information regarding your profile like all uploads, pending actions so that users can follow it up easily without getting lost in the website.
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Free of cost ITR software for filing Income Tax Return for ITR-1, 2 and 4. There will be a series of interactive questions that will help taxpayers in filing their return. Soon this facility will be provided for other return forms like ITR 3,5, 6 and 7 also.
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The ITR will be processed immediately and a refund will be initiated within days.
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Taxpayers will be able to pay their taxes as well through the new website.
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Taxpayers will be provided with pre-filled ITR with information such as income from salary, interest, dividend and capital gain from shares. The taxpayers will also be able to update information related to salary, property, business etc. This facility will be available after the uploading of TDS and SFT statements, the last date of which is 30 June 2021.
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A call centre will be set up to address the grievances of the taxpayers so that their problems will be resolved at the earliest.
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There will be video tutorials and chatbot to help taxpayers understand the processes.
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Taxpayers will also be able to reply to the notice through this portal and will also be able to appeal.
