Over 3 crore people successfully transacted on I-T portal: Infosys

Under fire from the Union finance ministry, Infosys on Thursday shared updates on the progress it is making on the Income Tax E-Filing Portal.

It claimed that over 3 crore taxpayers have successfully completed transactions and as many as 1.5 crore Income Tax Returns were filed without any technical glitches.

“Infosys is committed to making rapid progress in further streamlining end-user experience,” said the company in a press note.

Over the last few weeks, the portal has seen steady increase in the usage with taxpayers’ concerns being progressively addressed. Thus far over three crore taxpayers have logged into the portal and successfully completed various transactions, the note said.

Even as the portal makes sustained progress with crores of taxpayers successfully performing transactions, the company said it acknowledges the difficulties some users continue to experience. It said that it is working expeditiously in collaboration with the Income Tax Department to further streamline end-user experience. During September so far on average more than 15 lakh unique taxpayers have logged into the portal daily, and over 1.5 crore returns have been filed till date. Over 85 per cent of taxpayers who have filed their returns have also completed their e-verification, largely through Aadhaar OTP authentication.

The portal is facilitating over 2.5 lakh returns filing on a daily basis and ITR 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 are now available for filing. A majority of the statutory forms have also been made available online. Several critical statutory forms like 15G, 15H, EQ1, 10A, are being filed in large numbers.