EFiling ITR2 on new tax portal, online mode, I have faced numerous errors in last 15-20 days.
Below is a consolidated list of errors faced till date.
1) Rounding of incomes
On a regular basis, the inside calculations and rounding of numbers is changing. There is no universal rounding of numbers being done for incomes. Sometimes the rounding is done to nearest lower rupee and sometimes its done to nearest upper rupee. This is leading to calculation errors in the Online Mode.
Eg Incomes under LTCG Schedule 112A, Schedule CG, Quarterly Accrual Table, CYLA, BFLA, TTI are not having universal rounding system of income, resulting in one rupee errors which cannot be corrected.
2) Bank Account validations at the time of submission of return
Many bank accounts are not getting validated. Eg Saraswat bank account inspite of being having same email ID and same mobile number, the validation fails. Other cooperative bank accounts not getting validated.
Bank accounts that are not validated cannot be removed from the tax return. Else the return filed will not be as per compliance rules that requires declaring all bank active / dormant bank accounts.
3) Return defaults to foreign assets as Yes
Return is defaulting to foreign assets as Yes for no reason. Very dangerous.
It should default to No
4) Schedule 112A errors
Earlier Schedule 112A worked correct. Now from today onwards some errors are noted.
1) If dropdown is selected before 31st Jan 2018, then Full Value of Consideration is allowing decimal number
2) If dropdown is selected After 31st Jan 2018, then Full Value of Consideration is NOT allowing decimal number
5) Income tax calculation huge errors
Six or seven days ago, the income tax getting calculated was wrong as per new tax system. That part is I think corrected now but may reappear again.
6) In Profile cannot add income from other sources
Go to the Profile. Try adding Income from Others Sources from dropdown and press Add. Nothing works.
These are the known errors. Unknown errors are not known. There is no clarity whether all of the above will get resolved or not resolved before 29th Sep 2021. There is no proper resolution mechanism. Six grievances opened and no clarity from Income tax department. Software errors coming from ICAI are only being welcomed and errors reported by general public are being ignored.
In my view Income tax department executives and personnel are not performing any software testing. They are just releasing new new fix versions on the utility. Even the Infosys technical team lacks expertise on testing and they have no idea. When they fix three errors, they add one more error. That error is
India and its taxation system is moving into a very dangerous zone. By not allowing excel sheet utilities, Indian tax model is playing with the lives of 9 crore persons who are to use this new portal. And add to that taxpayers paying Rs 1700 crore to Infosys is going to cost the nation heavy. No one uses JSON online utilities and there are better performing ones.
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