New income tax portal sluggish, but data analytics system is sending notices

The Income Tax Portal in the country may not be working properly, but the data analytics system of the Income Tax Department is fully functional and penalty notices are also being sent to the people in tax matters. Out of such taxpayers, whose emails are not updated in the system, about 40-45 thousand people across the country have been sent notices on behalf of the department. According to the official related to the case, notices have started being sent to all the people in whose returns penalty was made in the last years. At the same time, work has not started on the matters of the last financial year or the current assessment year. According to the official, the work of sending online notices to the people in the cases prior to last year is currently pending due to non-operationalization of the Income Tax portal.

According to the information, in many cases, the information given by the taxpayers does not match with the information reached in the system of the Income Tax Department through other means related to it. According to preliminary estimates, about 2 lakh such cases are on the radar of the department. After their scrutiny, notices have been sent.
Notices being sent to the address if the e-mail is missing

about 25 per cent of these cases, the department does not have the e-mail address related to such people. This is the reason why notices are being sent to those people at their address. Sources have also said that the purview of the notice also includes professionals who are exempted from tax in many cases and have filed returns on the same basis. Through the system, it was learned that he has not given full details of income from other sources to the Income Tax Department. After scrutinizing the matter, the authorities have imposed a fine on him.