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‘lite’ e-filing facility was launched by the Income Tax department on
Thursday to facilitate the easy and quick filing of returns by
taxpayers.
The facility was operationalised on the official portal of the department –https://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.
“The Income Tax department is launching ‘e-Filing Lite’, a lighter version of e-Filing portal with a focus on the filing of Income Tax Return (ITR) by the taxpayers,” the department said in a public advisory.
“The same can be accessed by clicking ‘e-Filing Lite’ button on the home page. The current e-Filing portal having all the services can be accessed by clicking on the ‘Portal Login’ button,” it added.
Other regular tabs like e-proceeding, e-nivaran, compliance, worklist and profile setting were taken off from the ‘lite version’ but retained in the standard version of e-filing facility, he said.
The ‘lite’ version is aimed to enable easy and quick ITR filing by all categories of taxpayers, the official said.
On July 23, the government extended the due date for filing income tax returns by individuals for the financial year 2018-19 by a month till August 31.
Source: businesstoday