E-Filing 2.0: New Website of Income Tax Deptt Now Live, Know The Special Feature

For the ease of taxpayers, the Finance Ministry on Monday released a new portal of the Income Tax Department. This includes many new facilities for the taxpayers. Income Tax Department has introduced a new web site for income tax payers named http://incometax.gov.in . Earlier the address of the site was http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.

The new portal has been designed with dedication, however, officials said that it may take some time for the website to be stable and taxpayers can easily take advantage of all its new features. prepared with. On its home page it is called e-filing 2.0. This is a completely new portal which makes e-filing easy for you. The objective of this portal is to provide a single window for Income Tax related services to the taxpayers and allied parties. The new portal went live from Monday. But the new tax payment system on this portal will start from June 18.

Let's know the special features of the new portal -

• Refund will be issued soon - The processing of Income Tax Return (ITR) will be done immediately in the new portal and refund will also be issued to the taxpayers soon.
• Pre-filled forms will be available - In this, necessary instructions for taxpayers and information about their pending cases will also be available. Also pre-filled forms (pre-filled forms) will also be available.
• Software with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) answers - Software has been integrated with Always Asked Questions (FAQs) answers to help taxpayers file ITR 1, ITR 4 (Online & Offline) and ITR 2 (Offline). The department has said in a statement issued in this regard that the facilities for ITR 3, 5, 6 and 7 will also be made available soon.
• Call center also planned -- A new call center is also planned for taxpayer assistance for quick response to taxpayers queries and the portal will also have detailed FAQs, user manuals, video and chatbot/live agents.
• Other facilities - The CBDT said that the facility of filing income tax forms, engaging tax professionals, responding to notices in faceless scrutiny or appeals will be available.

Tax2win to Help Millions of Frontline Healthcare Workers in India with Free E-Filing of Income Tax Returns

The outburst of Covid-19 has triggered struggle for everyone and forced the government to extend ITR filing deadline. With the pandemic’s cases on a consistent rise in India, millions of frontline healthcare workers have doubled their efforts in the need of the hour to help the nation stand back on its feet. They are putting in their heart and soul to ensure that the families stay healthy. Be it long working hours in the uncomfortable PPE kits or attending spontaneously to the new patients of Covid-19, they are there when and where needed.

Tax2win have been following up on the selfless service that these frontline healthcare professionals are providing to fight coronavirus, so that common people like us can stay safe at home. Their selfless sacrifices are praiseworthy and courage, unmatched. They are no less than superheroes who save lives.

While these frontline workers are fighting lot of battles every day, Tax2win- India’s fastest growing e-filing & tax saving platform has introduced its own innovative way to thank these frontline workers i.e. by launching a new initiative ‘Cure Your ITR With eCA’s’. Under this, Tax2win will file their income tax returns free of cost online without making unnecessary office visits.

“We have been thinking of a way to care for these caregivers by taking their tax filing burden off to make this time less stressful for them, and therefore we are very happy to announce the ‘Cure Your ITR With eCA’s’ - an expert-led virtual tax return filing initiative for frontline healthcare workers under which we'll be providing them with a 100% free digital Tax Filing Assistance from the comfort of their home or workplace. We salute their efforts with this small helping gesture,” says CA Abhishek Soni, Co-Founder, Tax2win.

This initiative is truly an innovative thinking to care for these caregivers by taking their tax filing burden off to make this time less stressful for them.

To ease your tax filing burden, here are the steps to follow:

1. Visit https://tax2win.in/p/thanks-frontliners & Signup to get started


2. Upload Documents Digitally - No office visits required, just upload the specified documents on portal and it is good to go.


3. Review & Contact - Experienced professional will thoroughly go through your documents. Further, eCA will call you to understand your income, investment & deductions to help you get maximum refunds.


4. Approval & Filing - After addressing your doubts or questions (if any), Tax2win will file your income tax return for you.

Needless to mention, the ITR filing assistance will be provided online over Email/ Call, without any physical meetings or visits. It is a paperless practise specially curated for healthcare frontliners to save them from the hassles of ITR filing. Not only will this address safety, but it will also save the valuable time of our hardworking healthcare workers.

Dr. Rajshree Rathore, from Jaipur says:

Tax2win eCA’s focus on filing accurate returns, avail maximum deductions and getting maximum tax refunds. Tax2win has made Online Tax Filing super easy!

I-T Dept launches 'e-Filing Lite' - A Lighter Version of e-Filing Portal

A 'lite' e-filing facility was launched by the Income Tax department on Thursday to facilitate easy and quick filing of returns by taxpayers. The facility was operatlionalised on the official portal of the department -- https://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.

"The Income Tax department is launching 'e-Filing Lite', a lighter version of e-Filing portal with a focus on filing of Income Tax Return (ITR) by the taxpayers," the department said in a public advisory.

The same can be accessed by clicking 'e-Filing Lite' button in home page. The current e-Filing portal having all the services can be accessed by clicking on 'Portal Login' button

A senior official said a new tab for 'lite' was provided on the web portal and once registered taxpayers log in their page, they will only be provided essential links that enable e-filing of ITRs and Form 26AS (for tax deducted at source credit). Taxpayers can download pre-filled or XML forms and view their past filed returns, among others.

Other regular tabs like e-proceeding, e-nivaran, compliance, worklist and profile setting were taken off from the 'lite version' but retained in the standard version of e-filing facility, he said.

The 'lite' version is aimed to enable easy and quick ITR filing by all categories of taxpayers, the official said.

On July 23, the government extended the due date for filing income tax returns by individuals for financial year 2018-19 by a month till August 31. PTI NES