Software major Infosys, which has drawn flak for glitches in the new income tax portal, has set up a dedicated war room to monitor the performance of the portal as the extended deadline of December 31 for filing income tax returns for FY21 approaches.
As of December 15, 35.9 million income tax returns (ITR) have been filed on the new e-filing portal with the daily filings crossing 600,000 per day.
Senior finance ministry officials headed by Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj on Thursday met Infosys team led by company’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Salil Parekh on the preparedness of the e-filing

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