The income tax department of India has replaced its old portal with a new one on June 7, 2021. The portal was not functional for the past few days for the launch of the new website. This new website aims to provide better facilities for the taxpayers with various new features added to it. The new e-filing portal provides taxpayer convenience and a modern, seamless experience for taxpay

Website of New Income Tax Portal: The older portal www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in is replaced with the new portal www.incometaxgov.in. This new portal has come up with various new user-friendly benefits.

Features of the New Income Tax Portal:

• User friendly: The new taxpayer portal will provide immediate income tax returns (ITRs) to issue quick refunds to taxpayers.
• New online tax payment system: This will have multiple new payment options through net banking, UPI, credit card RTGS, NEFT from any account of the taxpayer in any bank for easy payment of taxes.
• Mobile App: This will help the taxpayers to get used to the various new features that have been launched. The app will enable taxpayers to get familiar with the various features.

• Single Dashboard: The single dashboard will help with all the interactions and pending stuff uploaded for follow-up action by the taxpayers.
• ITR preparation software: This is free-of-cost interactive software that will help taxpayers with ITRs 1, 4 (online and offline) and ITR 2 (offline) to begin with; facilities for the preparation of ITRs 3, 5, 6, 7 will be made available shortly.
• Pre-Filing Of ITR: Taxpayers can proactively update their profile to provide details of income like salary, house property, business/profession in the new portal. Detailed enablement of pre-filling with salary income, interest, dividend, and capital gains will be available after TDS and SFT statements are uploaded (due date is June 30th, 2021);
• New Call Centre: This will help the taxpayer to reach out immediately if they have queries. The portals have detailed FAQs, user manuals, videos, and chatbot/live agent for a user-friendly connection.
• Additional Functionalities: The new portal contains new income tax forms, adding tax professionals, submitting responses to notices including faceless scrutiny or appeals will be available.