The income tax department has asked all deductors to register their TAN on NSDL web site. Once registered, the deductors will be provided User ID and password for authenticated access. Benefit of registration- The access will result in the following benefits to the deductors. View of status of all statements filed;

A facility to register TAN online is available on the TIN website (www.tin-nsdl. com). The Income Tax Department requires all deductors to register their TANs online. Authenticated access (through user ID and password) will be provided to registered deductors. Registration is free. An acknowledgment number will be displayed on successful registration. This acknowledgment number is to be kept securely. In future user id / password will be provided to the deductors who have successfully registered.

Some times we found difficulties while registering with e-filling website. When we enter the Permanent Account Number (PAN) for registration purpose and other details, it shows error in name , that it’s not matching with the data registered with IT department. What to do? How to know the name of the person, which matches exactly with Income Tax Records? Here we would discuss two methods by which we can know the name of person exactly the same as in Income Tax records if we have his PAN.

A new provision relating to tax deduction at source (TDS) under the Income Tax Act 1961 will become applicable with effect from 1st April 2010. Tax at higher of the prescribed rate or 20% will be deducted on all transactions liable to TDS, where the Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the deductee is not available.

The data structure of quarterly e-TDS / TCS statements has been modified by the Income Tax Department to incorporate certain additional fields and validations to further improve the data quality. New data structure (File format changes highlighted) version 4.0 [for quarterly e-TDS / TCS statement (Regular and correction)]

TAKING the taxpayers’ services to a higher level, the Income Tax Department has begun to provide credit statements which are available for viewing by taxpayers. A taxpayer can register for such a facility and can get information about the credits online for different AYs. To see this, a onetime registration is required. Detailed procedure for [...]

Section 195 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 mandates deduction of income tax from payments made or credit given to non-residents at the rates in force. The Reserve Bank of India has also mandated that except in the case of certain personal remittances which have been specifically exempted, no remittance shall be made to a non-resident unless a no objection certificate has been obtained from the Income Tax Department.

TAN or Tax Deduction and Collection account number is a unique ten digit alpha-numeric number required to be compulsorily obtained by all persons who are responsible for deducting or collecting tax at source on behalf of Income Tax Department. Section 203A of the Income tax Act, 1961 makes it mandatory to quote TAN in all [...]

The applicant can send an SMS to 53030 with a message containing the word PAN followed by a space and the 15-digit acknowledgment number provided at the time of submission of application i.e., PAN ACKNOWLEDGMENT NUMBER (e.g., PAN 123456789012345 – this is an illustrative acknowledgment number. Actual acknowledgment number should be provided in the SMS).

To check the status of their Income Tax refund, taxpayers can log in at https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/oltas/ refundstatuslogin.html . If there is a problem, they can contact the assessing officer or the refund banker, the State Bank of India. In case of any grievance, taxpayers can also contact the additional commissioner in charge of the range or the income tax ombudsman.