Fix tax portal glitches by September 15, finance minister Sitharaman tells Infosys

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked Infosys, the technology vendor for the faulty income tax portal, to fix all glitches by September 15, while conveying the “deep disappointment and concerns” of the government and taxpayers over the company’s failure to fix the problems even two and a half months after the platform was launched.

During her meeting with Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, Sitharaman made her displeasure known, with the company brass now realising how seriously the Centre was taking the issue, a source told TOI. The sense in the government is that Infosys was moving to remove the snags at a very slow pace, something it had done with GST Network as well where it managed to extract time from the government.