IT dept to unveil enhanced and more user-friendly website

The Income Tax department will soon upgrade its official web portal and unveil more user-friendly features for taxpayers on the online platform.

Officials said the website--www.incometaxindia.gov.in-- will host easy navigation tools for taxpayers and others so that they can easily do e-filing of their Income Tax Returns, lodge grievances, seek help from the department in this regard and look for their refunds.

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The website, at present, hosts various links for use for taxpayers including a special section on new I-T circulars, notifications and laws.

The systems wing of the department has been on a spree for quite sometime now to continuously make I-T processes easy for taxpayers so that they can perform their tasks over the internet rather than going to a tax office.

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"The new website will be operational very soon. The final systems are in the last test phase," they said. The department has recently launched a pilot project to see if the lengthy scrutiny proceedings could be done over the email with the assesses even as it recently debuted on micro-blogging site Twitter with an exclusive handle-- 'IncomeTaxIndia_'.

Source PTI