new delhi it departments website incometaxindiafilinggovin is not accessible for six days from tomorrow as the portal is being upgraded to provide more facilities like help desk the current efiling website is being revamped to a new efiling website with additional services the current web services will remain closed with effect from november 3 to november 8 2012 the central board of direct taxes cbdt said the web services will resume from november 9 it added looking to the overwhelming response from the taxpayers and growth of efiling a new efiling project was conceptualised in order to take the eservices to the next generation it said in order to make the new portal live the migration of data from the old to the new set up is in process and hence the portal will not be available for the six days to file returns the cbdt said besides companies and other entities efiling is compulsory for individuals having total annual income of more than rs 10 lakh the cbdt said under the new efiling setup not only income tax return itr forms but also other it forms are proposed to be made available for electronic filing along with other webenabled services the efiling services will resume with various new additional services like multiple mode of efiling of returns help desk through call centre and email support provision of online forms prefiling of data in forms and availability of offline eforms the cbdt added income tax department had received 164 crore ereturns in 201112 up by over 81 per cent over the previous year as on march 31 2012 over 19 crore taxpayers had registered for efiling meanwhile the time limit has been extended for filing the itrv forms relating to income tax returns filed electronically without digital signature for assessment year ay 201011 and 201112 to december 31 or within 120 days date of uploading of the electronic return data whichever is later the due date for submission of itrv is 120 days from the date of upload of ereturn the cbdt said that relaxation has been made since there are still a large number of ereturns relating to ay 201112 which had been filed but for which the itrv forms have not yet been received at the centralised processing centre cpc bengaluru the time limit has been extended to mitigate the hardship and grievances of taxpayers who have been prevented by reasonable causes to file the itrv form in time digital signature certificate is mandatory for firms and individuals whose accounts are required to be audited however digital signature is not mandatory for individuals with annual income of over rs 10 lakh but they have to submit the verification of the return in form itrv income tax return verification the itrv has to be printed signed and deposited with the cpc pti