New Income Tax Portal

1st Look of new Income Tax Portal of the Income Tax Department for smooth e-filings

New Features

1. The new income tax portal is http://www.incometax.gov.in.

2. Now a user can log in from PAN or Adhaar or Other User ID or Internet Banking facility.

3. The web portal is available in dark mode also.

4. New Enhanced User Interface

5. Organized services tab cards are available at the new Income Tax Portal.

6. Option to select the sources of Income at the profile level and updates of details of employment, details of house property, details of agricultural land and business and profession

The new e-filing portal (www.incometax.gov.in) is aimed at providing taxpayer convenience and a modern, seamless experience to taxpayers:

1. New taxpayer-friendly portal integrated with immediate processing of Income Tax Returns(ITRs) to issue quick refunds to taxpayers;

2. All interactions and uploads or pending actions will be displayed on a single dashboard for follow-up action by the taxpayer;

3. Free of cost ITR preparation software available online and offline with interactive questions to help taxpayers file ITR even without any tax knowledge, with prefilling, for minimizing data entry effort;

4. New call center for taxpayer assistance for immediate answers to taxpayer queries with FAQs, Tutorials, Videos, and chatbot/live agent;

5. All key portal functions on the desktop will be available on Mobile App which will be enabled subsequently for full anytime access on a mobile network;

6. A new online tax payment system on the new portal will be enabled subsequently with multiple new payment options using net banking, UPI, Credit Card, and RTGS/NEFT from any account of a taxpayer in any bank, for easy payment of taxes.

7. Free of cost ITR preparation software available with interactive questions to help taxpayers for ITRs 1, 4 (online and offline) and ITR 2 (offline) to begin with; Facility for preparation of ITRs 3, 5, 6, 7 will be made available shortly;

8. Taxpayers will be able to proactively update their profile to provide certain details of income including salary, house property, business/profession which will be used in pre-filling their ITR. 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);

9. New call center for taxpayer assistance for prompt response to taxpayer queries. Detailed FAQs, User Manuals, Videos, and chatbot/live agent also provided;

In order to avoid any inconvenience to taxpayers, the Department will not fix any compliance dates during this period. Further, directions have been issued to fix the hearing of cases or compliances only from 10th June 2021 onwards, to give taxpayers time to respond to the new system. If any hearing or compliance which requires submissions online has been scheduled during this period, the same will be preponed or adjourned and the work items would be rescheduled after this period.

The Department has also intimated external entities including Banks, MCA, GSTN, DPIIT, CBIC, GeM, DGFT who avail services of PAN verification, etc. about the non-availability of the services and to request them to make arrangements to ensure that their customers/stakeholders are appraised so that any relevant activity can be completed prior to or after the blackout period.

Taxpayers are encouraged to complete all their urgent tasks involving any submission, upload, or downloads before 1st June 2021 to avoid any difficulty during the blackout period.

The Department requests the patience of all taxpayers and other stakeholders during the switch over to the new e-filing portal and the subsequent initial period while they get familiarized with the new system. This is another initiative by CBDT towards providing ease of compliance to its taxpayers and other stakeholders.

What to do

Please ensure that you re-register your current valid DSC on the new e-filing portal https://www.incometax.gov.in from June 7th onwards. The earlier DSC registration on the old portal cannot be migrated due to security and technical reasons.