The New Income Tax Portal, which has been in talks for all the wrong reasons was inaccessible since 21st August 2021 due to a planned maintenance activity by Infosys. On 22nd August 2021, FM Nirmala Sitharaman summoned Shri Salil Parekh, MD &CEO, Infosys to address why glitches on the new Income Tax Portal haven't been resolved even after 2.5 months of its launch.
In a tweet, at around 9 pm on 22nd August 2021, the Infosys team revealed that the maintenance activity has now been completed and the portal is up and running again.

Screenshot of the official Tweet released by Infosys's Twitter handle has been attached herewith

