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Finance Ministry expects new income tax portal to function normally from first week of August

Follow us on -  LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aseem-aggarwal-1b365549/ Youtube  -  https://www.youtube.com/user/aseemaggarwal92 Twitter  -  https://twitter.com/aseem252 Blog  -  https://aseemconsult.blogspot.com/ Finance Ministry is expecting that tech issues of the new Income Tax (I-T) portal will be resolved soon and the website will function normally by the first week of August, sources informed CNBC-TV18. "Infosys and Finance Ministry are taking a daily update on improvements," sources said. Infosys was in 2019 awarded a contract to develop the new income tax filing system to reduce processing time for returns from 63 days to one day and expedite refunds. Income Tax Department had launched its new e-filing portal-- http://www.incometax.gov.in -- on June 7, 2021. Since then, technical glitches continue to mar the functioning of the new income tax portal as certain key utilities like e-proceedings and digital signature certificates are...

CTI urges govt to bring petrol, diesel under GST to reduce fuel rates

  Follow us on -  LinkedIn  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aseem-aggarwal-1b365549/ Youtube  -  https://www.youtube.com/user/aseemaggarwal92 Twitter  -  https://twitter.com/aseem252 Blog  -  https://aseemconsult.blogspot.com/ It also urged the central government to withdraw the increased excise duty that was introduced last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) on Thursday asked the government to bring petrol and diesel under the ambit of GST to bring down the fuel rates, a day after prices of petrol in Delhi crossed the Rs 100 a litre-mark. It also urged the central government to withdraw the increased excise duty that was introduced last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Crude oil was the cheapest in the last 16 years in 2020-21. During corona, between March and May, 2020, when crude oil became cheaper, the central government increased the excise duty on petrol by Rs 13/litre and diesel by Rs 16/litre,”...