It is obvious that the TDS provisions are going to be expanded day by day even in the direct Tax Code era. In the process to recover more and more tax through this mode of recovery, in many cases tax is also deducted from incomes which are expressly exempt. Many cases are wandering the corridors of various courts of law on this ground. This is also reflected in the decided cases. It seems that the issue gets complicated with the increase of TDS coverage. It will be interesting to go through the law and the judge-made law on the issue.
Pension received from a former employer is taxable as ‘Salary’. Hence, the various deductions available on salary income, including relief u/s 89(1) for the arrears of pension received would be granted to pensioners who received their pension from, a nationalised bank and in other cases their present Drawing & Disbursing Officers. Similarly, deductions from the amount of pension of standard deduction and adjustment of tax rebate u/s 88 and 88B shall be done by the concerned bank
Interest on housing loan which was claimed as a deduction under section 24(b) [while computing income from house property] was also deducted by the assessee under section 48 [as cost of acquisition while computing capital gains from sale of such house property].
How can I update a deductee record? You can update deductee details viz; PAN of deductee, name, amount etc. Steps to update a deductee record are as under: Identify the challan corresponding the deductee record to be updated by its sequence no as per regular statement , CIN, deposit amount as per regular statement Identify the underlying deductee record to be updated by its sequence number as per regular statement under the challan identified as above.
There may be cases when User forget Password for his TAN account which he already registered on https://www.tin-nsdl.com/ . In such cases user can recover the new password for his TAN account by following any of the two methods given below
Section 234B and Section 234C provides for the interest payment, in case non-payment/short payment of advance income tax. But can the Assessing Officer enforce the payment of Advance Income Tax?
Taxpayers can view the details of their Arrear Demand in ‘My Account’ as communicated by their jurisdictional Assessing Officers to CPC. Steps to View Income tax Demand / Arrears Payable Online 1. Login on https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/index.do 2. Go to ‘My Account’ and Click on ‘Current Status of Arrear Demand’ as depicted in picture below :-
Brief procedure for receiving Form 16A from TIN website: 1. Login to TAN Registration Account with user id, password and TAN. 2. Request Form 16A by carrying out verification by providing details of challan and deductees present in the TDS statement for which Form 16A is requested. 3. Form 16A will be provided on successful verification. 4. Two attempts within a day for successful verification are provided. 5. On successful verification, request number is generated and text file containing Form 16A details is e-mailed within 48 hours at the e-mail ID present in the registered TAN account.
Deposit of Tax -Where tax has been deducted under Sections 193,194,194A,194B,194BB, 194C, 194D, 194E,194EE, 194F, 194G, 194H, 194I, 194J, 194K, 194LA, 195, 196A, 196B, 196C and 196D, it is duty of the person deducting tax at source to deposit the amount of tax so deducted within the prescribed time in any branch of Reserve Bank of India or State Bank of India or any authorised bank accompanied by prescribed Income-tax challans as per the time limit and mode specified in Rule 30.
CPC Refund Failure Status – Use this query to find out if your Income Tax refund could not be issued due to missing/incorrect mandatory fields or if the refund was returned due to reasons such as address not found, etc. Please note that, if the query does not fetch any details, it implies that either the e-return has not been processed so far, or no refund was due, or refund has been delivered successfully.
