INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Government has said that more than two crore income tax returns have been filed on new portalJust a day after Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said
the income tax department in a statement said that more than 1.70 crore returns have been e-verified and of these, 1.49 crore were done
through Aadhaar based one-time password (OTP) system.The process of e-verification through Aadhaar OTP and other methods is important for
the department to commence processing of the ITR and to issue refunds, if any.Of the verified ITRs 1 and 4, more than 1.06 crore ITRs have
been processed and over 36.22 lakh refunds for the AY 2021-22 have been issued
Processing of ITRs 2 and 3 will be taken up shortly, the department said.The new e-filing portal was launched on June 7 this year and soon
after, users had started complaining of glitches, which led to the finance ministry summoning Infosys officials (the company has designed
the portal) and asking it to fix the issues.Due to these problems, the government had to extend the deadline for filing returns
twice.However as problems persisted with the platform, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had called Mr Parekh and gave the company time
till September 15 to address concerns of taxpayers.Though nothing was heard about the issue after that, during Infosys' second quarter
