India, July 26 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday urged officials to shift focus from resolving disputes to preventing them and highlighted record-breaking numbers in return filing and grievance redressal.

Speaking at the 167th Income Tax Day celebrations in New Delhi, Sitharaman said the Department's mandate has broadened well beyond revenue collection to encompass fairness, ease of doing business, and citizen-centric service.

The e-Filing portal, bolstered this year with expanded computing capacity and bandwidth, handled over one crore taxpayer interactions in a single day, peaking at around 1.6 crore.

As of July 21, more than 3.2 crore Income Tax Returns had been filed with 94 per cent verified and 60 per cent pr...