Rajasthan High court stringent observations against CBDT on Glitches on Income tax portal.

 

HC Court said as under:

1) As reflected from the figures submitted by CBDT, the shortfall in TaxAuditreports are likely to ensure considerable chaos and may result in widespread non-compliance by tax payers with statutory requirements.

2) Judicial precedents exist wherein courts have intervened where requisite forms were not made available at the commencement of year and the CBDT failed to provide Satiscactory justification for the delay.

3) The court is prima facie satisfied that there is significant disparity in filing statistics btween AY2024-25 and 2025-26, this drastically reduced number of #TaxAuditreports filed this year.

4) The delayed release of returns and forms and intermittent functioning of e-filing utilities, the recurring technical glitches on the Income tax portal, the Extention granted for individual ITR filings, and the foreseeable hardship to taxpayers in complying with statutory requirements, collectively necessitate immediate judicial intervention.

This is historic and very important observations by courts of the country directly implicating CBDT officials for Non Performance of their duties even after the new portal is now launched since 4 years.  Even Taxpayers were not able to pay taxes on the portal on due date and hence will face interest payment of 3 months.

This calls for immediate action on CBDT Chairman, officials and Service provider of the portal. Taxpayers are facing penalties and loss of time, energy, money because of Income tax department’s non action on setting the portal right. @PMOIndia should immediately intervene and take action so that all the issues pertaining to tax administration are resolved.

The copy of the order is as under:

Rajasthan HC TAR Extension order dt 250925 (1) - Adobe cloud storage