Over 25.82 lakh ITRs filed on new IT e-filing portal: Data
On Tuesday and Wednesday that number had increased to 1.5 lakhs indicating an improvement in the portal's operation
The new Income Tax Department website, which has been marred by glitches, has successfully received over 25 lakh returns, more than 3.57 crore unique logins and has allocated over 7.90 lakh e-PANs.
The portal was launched on June 7 with the new domain name www.incometax.gov.in, but it hit rough weather as a number of its functionalities did not function properly.
The e-filing website has seen 25,82,175 Income Tax Returns (ITRs) being filed successfully, has registered 4,57,55,091 logins and 3,57,47,303 unique logins by taxpayers over the last over two weeks time, shows official data.
The data also shows that a total of 80,23,266 ITRs have been drafted, over 6.07 lakh forms have been drafted out of which 5,51,150 were filed at the portal.
According to people familiar with the matter, over 1.5 lakh ITRs every day are being filed at the portal since the last few days.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that she wished that the new I-T portal did not have such a launch.
“I wish it (technical issues) hadn’t happened this way. But we are correcting the course and sooner the portal will be as is planned, easy to use,” she said.
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