FinMin asks Infosys to work on ways to access taxpayers' data accurately

FinMin suggests it boosts pre-filled data, rolls out new payment system

The finance ministry (FinMin) has asked Infosys to work on ways to extract and access taxpayers’ real-time data faster and accurately as it is crucial for taking decisions on policy changes.

While reviewing progress of the income tax portal 2.0, which had faced glitches, the officials also told the Infosys team to increase the scope of pre-filled data in the ITR forms.

Senior officials in the ministry held a review meeting last month with the Infosys team and officials of the Central Processing Centre (CPC). They took up a host of key issues concerning the new portal and other tax return-related matters,