income tax refunds

Amid fears of slowdown in tax collection in the current fiscal, the Finance Ministry today indicated that it may go slow on disbursement of pending income tax refunds. The indication was given by Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra at the annual conference of chief commissioners and directors general of income tax here. Full Article

The Centralized Processing Center of the Income Tax Department at Bengaluru had also completed processing of all e-filed tax returns for the current assessment year 2010-11. As such, all taxpayers who have filed e-returns and whose refund claim is be Full Article

Centralized Processing Center (CPC), Bangalore has begun processing of returns for AY 2010-11. As on 31/1/2011 it has processed over 31.3 lakh e-filed returns of AY 2010-11 in ITRs 1, 2, 3, 4 and issued refunds in over 8.3 lakh cases. The processing Full Article

This is the time of the year when tax payers look forward to getting refunds from the IT Department if eligible. But for roughly seven out of 10 cases, income tax refunds have remained elusive for no fault of the tax payers. The income tax department maintains that it is also not at fault. According to senior taxmen, they reject an overwhelmingly large number of eligible cases every year for what they call the incidence of missing entries. Full Article

Income tax refunds may get delayed for a fortnight, following a complete revamp of security buffers in the computer software system of tax departments across the country, after the discovery last week that someone had hacked into an account and made off with Rs 11 crore. Full Article

Delay in receipt of income tax returns is the most registered grievance of taxpayers in the national capital with the I-T Ombudsman receiving almost 85 per cent complaints in this regard. The I-T Ombudsman, during 2007-09, has also come across complaints of tax refunds being lost in transit and taxpayers receiving empty refund envelopes. Full Article

Information has been received from several quarters that people are receiving electronic mails informing them of their income-tax refunds and seeking their credit card details. The e-mail is sent from the following or similar mailing addresses. Full Article

Income tax assesseess may soon hope to get their refund amounts earlier than they are used to now. The income tax department will be coming up with a central processing centre in Hyderabad, which may help in early assessment of income, followed by early refunds. The facility, being developed in association with IT major Infosys, is expected [...] Full Article