Income Tax Dept to launch new e-filing portal for taxpayers on June 7

The existing I-T Department's e-filing web portal (www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in) will be shut for six days between June 1-6

The Income Tax Department is expected to launch a new e-filing web portal for taxpayers, which they use to file routine income tax returns (ITRs) and perform other tax-related works, early next month, officials said on May 20. The existing web portal will be shut for six days between June 1-6. Officials said the new portal will be made more user-friendly. An order issued by the systems wing of the department on May 19 said the “transition” from the old portal — — to the new — www.incometaxgov.in — will be completed and made operational from June 7.