23-Aug-2021: Just Think it Over
Software Companies in Our Country
It is very sad and
more painful to see to our world class software companies can’t manage and fix
the Income Tax Portal even after over 11 weeks and over Rs. 185 Crore fees.
Another company which provides software to SBI (the biggest public sector bank
of our country) periodically calculates wrong interest. I don’t know much about
software / programming / coding, but such a situation gives me sorrow, anguish,
pain and frustration. Are we so incapable? The CEO of the company must be
explaining this to the Finance Minister now as I write this. Best of Luck to
us.
I have a suggestion
however:
(1) Activate the
older Portal for the general public & corporates with immediate effect and
allow them to file ITR thru this old portal.
(2) Keep the new
one open too, and allow fixing as soon as possible- give them a deadline say
30-Sep-2021.
(3) Stop further
payments if any to the software developer till the portal is 99.9% flawless.
(4) Extend the last
date of filing ITR to 30-Nov-2021.
These are nothing
new and are common sense. But for people at high levels play such a lot of
extraordinary sense, that they tend to forget the common sense.
