The current e-filing website of Income Tax Department https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in is being revamped to a new e-filing website with additional services. The current web services will remain closed with effect from 3rd November to 8th November, 2012. The web services will resume from 9th November, 2012.
The circular from Income tax department reads like this:
This is to inform the tax payers that looking to the overwhelming response from the tax payers and growth of e-filing a new e-filing project was conceptualized in order to take the e-services to the next generation.
Under the new e-filing setup not only the ITR forms but also other income tax forms are proposed to be made available for electronic filing along with other web enabled services.
In order to make the new portal live the migration of data from old set up to the new set up is in progress due to this the service will be down from 3rd November to 8th November, 2012.
The e-filing service will resume with various new additional services like multiple mode of e-filing of returns : help desk through call center and e-mail support , provision of online forms , pre-filling of data in forms and availability of offline forms.
