The taxpayer can track the status of its refund from the Departmental Website www.incometaxindia.gov.in / NSDL-TIN website www.tin-nsdl.com by clicking on ‘Status of Tax Refunds’.'Refund status can be tracked by entering the PAN and Assessment Year for which refund is to be tracked. Status of the refund can also be tracked by contacting the help desk of SBI’s at toll free number: 18004259760 or email at: – itro@sbi.co.in.

All the CCITs, including the CCITs (CCA), were advised by the Board on Feb 28 & again on March 05 11 to provide data regarding paper refund cases not yet entered on the system. The CBDT feels anguished that, except CCITs Nagpur, Ranchi, Panaji & Guwahati, no other CCIT has taken care to comply with the Board’s appeal.

In the last Video Conference as also through a Message from the Chairman’s Desk, all the CCITs were requested to personally monitor processing of Returns & expeditiously issue refunds. Still, out of around 61.4 lac Returns entered in the system but not yet processed, around 6.39 lac Returns have refund claims. All CCITs are once again advised to please ensure that all pending refunds are necessarily issued by March 15 2011. As no data is available with the Systems regarding refund returns received but still not entered, all the CCITs are requested to provide on or before Feb 28, 2011 details of such cases to DIT (Sys) – III , New Delhi at dit3.systems@incometaxindia.gov.in.

Section 143 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 – Assessment – General – Clarification regarding processing of ITR-1 and ITR-2 returns – Credit for tax deducted at source for A.Y. 2009-10 INSTRUCTION NO. 9/2010 [F. NO. 225/25/2010/IT (A-II)], DATED 9-12-2010 1. Reference may be made to Board’s Instruction No. 7, dated 16-8-2010 in which it has [...]

Centralized Processing Center (CPC), Bangalore has begun processing of returns for AY 2010-11. Till 10/12/2010 it has processed over 15 lakh e-filed returns of AY 2010-11 in ITRs 1, 2, 3, 4 and issued refunds in over 1.6 lakh cases

Haven’t got your income tax (I-T) refunds? Here is the reason – the department has not processed close to 20 lakh returns filed by taxpayers in Mumbai. The issue was taken up by Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai, P. P. Srivastava, who recently took charge, during a meeting with senior officials on Thursday.

The Income Tax (IT) department in Hyderabad is sitting on a huge pile of cash that it should have returned long ago to those whom the money legitimately belongs: the tax payers. But hiding behind technicalities the department has not bothered to return the money which runs into a whopping Rs 1000 crore.

Mr Palanimanickam noted that the Department’s efficiency had to be benchmarked by the satisfaction level of the users. He highlighted that a major source of dissatisfaction of income-tax assessees is with respect to refund of taxes. “The time taken to grant refunds is very high when compared to international standards,” the Minister said, adding that the department should set up a task force to revamp the system of tax refunds.

Continuous rise in pendency of refund claims cost the exchequer interest of a whopping Rs 5,785 crore during 2008-09, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said today.