The Income Tax Department will launch a new income tax filing portal on June 7. Therefore, the existing portal will remain suspended for 6 days from June 1 to June 6,” said a circular by the Income tax Department.
As per the circular, officers including AOs, CIT(A) etc access the information for taxpayers from the portal.
Likewise, taxpayers also use extensive use of the portal for filing their ITR, checking refund and raising grievance among others. Due to unavailability of the system for six days, officers have also been advised to not fix anything for compliance during these 6 days. The Department has directed that any hearing or compliance is to be fixed only from June 10 such that taxpayers are given ample time to respond via the new system.
As per the official circular, the officers in the field including AOS, CIT (A), PCIT interact with taxpayers through E-proceedings over the E-filing portal directly or through the NeAC/NFAC for issuance of notices