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Government of India

Ministry of Finance

02-November-2012 17:56 IST

In view of the overwhelming response from the tax payers and growth of e-filing, a new e-filing project has been conceptualized in order to take the e-services to the next generation.

Under the new e-filing set-up not only the Income Tax Return (ITR) forms but also other income tax forms are proposed to be made available for electronic filing along with other web enabled services.

In order to make the new portal live, the migration of data from the old set-up to the new set-up is in process. Due to this, e-filing services to the tax payers through the portal https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in will not be available from 3^rd November to 8^th November, 2012.

The e-filing service will resume with various new additional services like multiple mode of e-filing of returns: help desk through call centre and e-mail support, provision of online forms, pre-filing of data in forms, and availability of offline e-forms.

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E filing portal migration temporarily suspends access, then restores expanded electronic filing and enhanced user support. A new centralized e filing project will expand online submission to ITRs and other income tax forms. Portal and data migration from the legacy system will require temporary suspension of taxpayer access to the existing e filing portal from 3 November to 8 November 2012, after which the service will resume with multiple e filing modes, online and offline forms, pre filled data, and help desk support.