For
those who find filing of income tax returns (ITR) on their own a
complicated and time-taking process, the
Income Tax department has now
launched a new lighter version of its e-filing website. The ‘e-Filing
Lite’ portal can be accessed through the main income tax e-filing
website itself.The new facility is particularly useful for taxpayers who do not want to do any other activity on the income tax department website besides e-filing ITR. From August 1, all registered users on the e-filing website have two ways to access the e-filing facility. The standard one is a little longer with multiple options while its ‘Lite’ version is focused exclusively on ITR filing.
On the ‘Lite’ e-filing portal, you can file ITR, complete its e-verification process, download pre-fill XML, view form 26AS (for tax deducted at source credit) and check e-filed income tax returns (without XML/ITR/ITR-V download options).
However, if you want to use other features like e-proceeding, e-nivaran, compliance, worklist and profile settings you need to go to the full version of the portal that can be accessed by clicking on “Portal Login” button in e-filing home page.
The ‘Lite’ version is aimed to enable easy and quick ITR filing by all categories of taxpayers. In a relief to taxpayers, the government has already extended the due date for filing ITR by individuals for financial year 2018-19 till August 31.
Source: livemint