New Income Tax website launches with glitches, now Finance Minister is complaining about it on Twitter

The income tax department had replaced the existing website with the new one, with a host of new features to make tax filing a smooth process for users.

The new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department which was launched a day ago has already gone awry. The website went live at 8:45 pm on Monday but within hours, the website was marred with glitches. So much so that now Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam is tweeting about the glitches in the newly-launched website. The income tax department had replaced the existing website with the new one, with a host of new features to make tax filing a smooth process for users. Or so was the idea. But for now, it seems that the teething issues have impacted the whole process. The website was inaccessible hours after going live. Sitharaman retweeted the tweet of a person who had raised an alarm about the site not working. She wrote, “The much-awaited e-filing portal 2.0 was launched last night at 20:45hrs.I see in my TL grievances and glitches.Hope @Infosys & @NandanNilekani will not let down our taxpayers in the quality of service being provided. Ease in compliance for the taxpayer should be our priority.”