{"id":1032590,"date":"2026-09-02T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032590"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:50:16","slug":"no-more-hush-hush-tax-portal-opens-door-to-misconduct-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/no-more-hush-hush-tax-portal-opens-door-to-misconduct-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"No more hush-hush: Tax portal opens door to misconduct complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Some of the creepy predators ensconced in the tax office now have a lurking fear that a hint of a sexual favour or suggestive comment can badly backfire. <\/p>\n<p>Since this week, the Income Tax (I-T) portal, largely used for filing returns, has introduced a tab where taxpayers can file complaints against an officer who allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct or sought a bribe. <\/p>\n<p>Until now, there was no standard online recourse to report such misbehaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Some of the creepy predators ensconced in the tax office now have a lurking fear that a hint of a sexual favour or suggestive comment can badly backfire. Since this week, the Income Tax (I-T) portal, largely used for filing returns, has introduced a tab where taxpayers can file complaints against an officer who allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct or sought a bribe. Until now, there was no standard online recourse to report such misbehaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032617,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032590\/revisions\/1032617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}