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E-Sahyog Project
E-Sahyog Project. The “e-Sahyog” project launched on a pilot basis seeks to reduce compliance cost, especially for small taxpayers. It is an online mechanism to resolve mismatches in Income Tax returns of those assesses whose returns have been selected for scrutiny, without visiting the Income Tax office.
As part of the Digital India initiative, the Income Tax Department has embarked on an “e-Sahyog” pilot project which furthers the Department’s commitment to work in an e-environment and reduces the need for the taxpayer to physically appear before tax authorities. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley launched it on October 27.
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The “e-Sahyog” project launched on a pilot basis seeks to reduce compliance cost, especially for small taxpayers. It is an online mechanism to resolve mismatches in Income Tax returns of those assesses whose returns have been selected for scrutiny, without visiting the Income Tax office. Under this initiative, the Department will provide an end to end e-service using SMS, e-mails to inform the tax assesses of the mismatch.
The taxpayers will simply need to visit the e-filing portal (https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in) and log in with their user-ID and password to view mismatch related information and submit online response on the issue. On the home screen itself, the taxpayer will get the information about the Return Information Mismatch under the tab “My Pending Actions”.
The taxpayer will be provided the information submitted by the taxpayer to the ITD in the Return of Income as well as the information received by the ITD from the third party. The taxpayer will be able to submit online response on the issue. Issue wise instructions are provided in Annexure 2. If the taxpayer needs any further clarification/information, query may be sent to [email protected].
The responses submitted online by the taxpayers will be processed and if the response and other information are found satisfactory as per automated closure rules, the issue will be treated as closed. The taxpayers can check the updated status by logging in to the e-filing portal.
The Finance Minister stated that the objective of the Income Tax Department is to make life as easy as possible for the assesses and difficult only for those who consciously evade taxes. He also inaugurated on the day a drive to provide public service at peoples’ door step by holding “special PAN camps in remote areas.”
He said the government was also reviewing the income tax law and identify clauses that lead to litigations or adversely impact the ease of doing business, revealed the Minister. These initiatives of the Income Tax Department are expected to significantly reduce the burden of compliance on taxpayers and enhance the taxpayers’ satisfaction.
