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Government of India

Ministry of Finance

02-November-2012 17:40 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 3rd November to 8th November, 2012.

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E-filing service suspension to enable portal migration and launch of expanded electronic tax filing services. A new generation e-filing project will expand electronic filing to ITR and other income tax forms and web services. To make the new portal live, data migration from the old system is being undertaken; e-filing services on the existing portal will not be available during the migration window, and taxpayers should expect temporary inability to submit forms through the current portal while the upgraded infrastructure is deployed.