Income tax department is sending messages to pay advance tax on the basis of High Value Transactions shown in Form 26AS. The message says ‘Attention XYZ COMPANY (PAN XXXXX—–X), Income Tax Department has received information about certain high value financial transactions relating to FY 2020-21. Please view transactions under e-Campaign tab on Compliance Portal (CP) and remember to pay appropriate advance tax. Access CP by logging into e-filing portal and clicking on ‘Compliance Portal’ link under ‘My Account’ tab – ITD’
b) If you are receiving above message you are under radar of Income-tax Department. Gone are days when every transaction was performed in Cash and many people were having huge cash in hand. Now if you perform certain high value transaction, then it will be shown in Form 26AS and you have to pay advance tax and show income in return accordingly.
1. WHAT IS HIGH VALUE TRANSACTION ON THE BASIS OF WHICH ADVANCE TAX IS REQUIRED TO BE PAID
High Value transactions are transactions which are incurred in high denominations. Reporting Authorities like banks, post office, Registrars, companies are required to intimate about high value transactions to Director of Income-tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation) by filing Form 61A called Statement of Financial Transaction. Through this form Investigation Wing of Income-tax Department comes to know about your high-value transactions and then it checks whether such person has filed return of income or not. If return is filed whether income disclosed is true and taxes have been paid correctly or not.
2. REPLY TO COMPLIANCE IN COMPLIANCE PORTAL–
Login to your income tax account and reply to compliance raised by department. The compliance is raised on the basis of Significant Transactions which are-
a) BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS REPORTED IN GSTR RETURN WHICH IS REFLECTED IN FORM26AS – For Eg: It says you have purchased goods worth Rs.70lakhs and stated turnover 10 crores. Please see whether you have paid advance tax or not
b) TDS DEDUCTED– For Eg: It says you have deducted TDS @ 10% of Rs.8lacs, it means you have paid 80lacs. Please pay advance tax. Likewise there may be many transactions like-
c) PURCHASED OR SOLD PROPERTY- Registrars/ Sub-registrars are required to report Income-tax Department about Purchase or sale of immovable property whose Stamp Duty Value is Rs.30 lacs or more. This will appear as high value transaction in Form 26AS.
d) WITHDRAWN CASH FROM BANK ACCOUNT AND TDS DEDUCTED U/S 194N- From 01stJune 2020 banks and post offices are required to deduct TDS if any person withdraws cash above 20 lacs or 1 crore based on their income filing status @ 5% or 2%. It says you have withdrawn cash amounting to Rs.60lacs, please pay advance tax
e) DEPOSITED CASH IN BANK ACCOUNT.- Banks are required to report Deptt., if Cash deposit/ Withdrawal/ Fixed deposit made in bank account of Rs.10 lakhs or more in all bank accounts and Rs.50 lacs made in all Current accounts.
f) TIME DEPOSITS made, Purchase of Debentures or bonds, investments made in shares and Mutual Funds, buy back of shares by company, purchase of foreign currency of Rs.10 lacs or more.
g) PAYMENT MADE FROM CREDIT CARD OF RS.10 LACS OR MORE against bill raised of purchases or expenses or Rs.1 lacs paid in Cash.
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3. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO?
Please verify details shown in Compliance Portal and submit reply as –
- Bulk Response- Information is correct
Information is denied
- File Individual transaction reply- Information is correct
Information is not fully correct
Information relates to other
person/year
Information is duplicate / included in
other displayed information
Information is denied
4. OUR COMMENTS
All the persons who do High-Value transactions are in radar of Income-tax Departments. In maximum cases income tax notices are issued based on these High Value Transactions. So you have to keep yourself informed about all these transactions and file return accordingly. Let us bring into practice to avoid cash transactions so that income-tax notices can be avoided. Govt. is fastly moving towards digitization of its entire working system and now only good tax planning can save our taxes. Let us ensure to save taxes legally.
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RESPECTED SIR/MADAM,
I have purchased a flat in the name of my wife and daughter in the financial year 22-23. I have paid the seller full amount from my account. The transaction value of the flat is above 30 lakhs. I am an income tax payee. What should I do for my wife and daughter, so that no problem is created.
Got Notice on high value transactions which is bank interest for AY 20-21. My CA didn’t resolved this and now its for me to do the necessary action. Since the window of revised return will be closed, please guide in steps, how do I resolve this
I got high value compliance from income tax department although TDS has been deducted as per form 26AS. What should I do while replying against bank detail section?
Hello, i have already filled the ITR for Financial Year 2019-20, I got the high transaction value notice on 28th march 2021 regarding interest deposited by the bank, I have accepted the same on the e-compliance portal. do I need to fill the revised return for Financial Year 2019-20 or wait for further notice?
I also Accepted and submit my response. What to do after this? I guess we need to pay tax. But not sure whats the procedure, can anyone tell us the procedure to calculate and pay tax?
I Have received compliance for FD/RD and Savings bank interest for 10 items. For 5 items already I have added those while filing the income Tax under ” Income for other Sources”. For those which response I should mark between below :
Bulk Response- Information is correct
Information is denied
File Individual transaction reply- Information is correct
Information is not fully correct
Information relates to other
person/year
Information is duplicate / included in
other displayed information
Information is denied
Dear Sir,
We have to file a response against the same topic you have mention, though the portal accessed information as available on GSTN/ 26AS and could not access our ITR records where we have filed the losses occurred in last 4 years straight. Please advice how to respond in our case specific.
Dear sir,
Transactions are posted on the basis of information collected from various sources. They do not know whether you have incurred losses in past years. They only want to grab your attention towards transactions done by you. It is your call whether u have to pay advance tax or not.If you have losses to be adjusted..you will compute advance tax accordingly.
What is the time period for giving a response to such messages?
U must accept or deny details as soon as the details are uploaded in compliance portal. There is no time limit set for responding but these transactions are base for selection of cases for scrutiny or reopening. If you have responded in compliance portal, the matter may get closed there itself
Pity is the SMs comes on 12th evening when Banks are closed over the weekend and are on strike on Monday and Tuesday.
One of my client has long term capital gain. His estimated tax liability is around Rs. 2 Crores. He is very senior with age of 92 years. He does not have any other income than long term capital gains. As per IT rules he need not pay advance tax. Please confirm whether I am correct,
Thank you so much.
Yes Sir, Senior citizens above 60 years are not required to pay advance tax if they are not engaged in any business. So it applies to capital gains also.