INCOME TAX thetxatalk CORRECTION IN INCOME TAX CHALLAN

CORRECTION IN INCOME TAX CHALLAN

9th January 2012

INCOME TAX

Query 1]

I had deposited Advance Tax on 10/06/2009 of Rs. 3,000/- in a Nationalized Bank at Pune. I had written my name and PAN correctly. I received the counterfoil & submitted the same with my IT Return for A.Y. 2010-11 along with other tax payments counterfoils. Recently I received Tax Refund and observed that it is lesser by Rs. 3,000/- than actually claimed refund.

On taking up the matter with the concerned Ward office, I was told that the credit is not appearing in my A/c for the said Rs. 3,000/- deposited by me on 10.06.2009. I took up the matter with Bank who issued me a computer Generated Receipt (In Annexure A-IV-II). I observed that Bank has entered wrong PAN No. while remitting funds to Govt. though counterfoil of IT challan shows correct PAN. The name mentioned is correct. I request you to please guide me as to take steps for refund of Rs. 3,000/- [Arvind Deshpande-arvisneha2000@gmail.com]

Opinion:

There are numerous instances where there is an error while making payment of Tax either electronically or manually. To rectify these errors, Income-Tax Department has issued new guidelines effective 01-09-2011. This new mechanism allows Banks to correct physical challans only. For correction in electronic challan, request will have to be made to the concerned Assessing Officer. For general benefit, the procedure for correction is physical challan is given hereunder:

Fields that can be corrected by bank:

Assessment Year
Major Head Code
Minor Head Code
TAN/PAN
Total Amount
Nature of payment (TDS Codes)

Time frame for correction request:

Request for correction has to be made within 7 days of deposit of challan for correction in PAN, TAN and Assessment Year
For Major head, minor head and nature of payment, request can be made within 3 months of deposit of challan.

Remedy available after time frame is over:

– After lapse of time frame, request can be made to the Assessing Officer.

Time frame given to bank to carry out correction:

After receipt of request, bank must carry out the correction within 7 days.

Other conditions for correction:

Correction in name is not allow
Any combination of correction of Minor Head and Assessment Year together is not allow
PAN/TAN correction will be allow only when the name in the challan
matches with the name as per the new PAN/TAN.
The change of amount will be permit only on the condition that the amount so correct is not different from the amount actually receive by the bank and credit to Govt. Account.
For a single challan, correction is allow only once. However, where 1^st correction request is make only for amount, a 2nd correction request will be allow for correction in other fields.
There will be no partial acceptance of change correction request, i.e. either all the request changes will be allow, if they pass the validation, or no change will be allow, if any one of the request changes fails the validation test.

Procedure for requesting correction:

The tax-payer has to submit the request form for correction (in duplicate) to the concerned bank branch.
The tax-payer has to attach copy of original challan counterfoil.
In case of correction desire for challan in Form 280, 282, 283, the copy of PAN card is require to be attache.
In case of correction desire for payments make by a tax-payer (other than an individual), the original authorization with seal of the non-individual taxpayer is require to be attach with the request form.
A separate request form is to be submit for each challan.

Correction in Electronic Challans

For correction in electronic challans and for correction after the time period for application to bank lapses, a written request in prescribe format has to be make to the Assessing Officer
Assessing Officer has power to rectify the error , in bona fide cases, to enable credit of tax to assessee

Form of application to bank:

Income-tax department has given a format in which application is make to the bank.

The form is give is available at nareshjakhotia.blogspot.com or

http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/archive/LeftMenu_ChallanCorrectionMechanism_26

82011.pdf

In your specific case, you have to make an application to your Assessing Officer elaborating the facts of the case along with all the relevant documents to prove the payment. You may further obtain the letter from the bank admitting the mistake cause at their end, which may also be submit to the A.O. to carry out the necessary changes.

Query 2]

An ancestral House-property, Situate in M.P., was transfer to me, being the eldest, as per the family-partition in the year 2007-08. This property was originally purchase by my two paternal- uncles jointly, in the year 1968-69 for Rs. 18,000/- only (Rs. Eighteen Thousand only), as a family-property, which was transfer to my father in the year 2004-05 according to their family-partitions. I now wish to sell-off this property for Rs. 9.25/-Lacs (Rs Nine Lacs twenty five Thousands only) in this current year 2011-12. I shall be distributing/gifting this amount equally to my three younger brothers & sisters, being the family property.

My queries are:

Under the above circumstances, what shall be my quantum of LTCG or any other tax, if any?
How much amount I shall be require to invest in the infra-structural Bonds (NHAI etc) or in another house property to minimize or nullify LTCG?

I also wish to point-out here one interesting but may or may not so relevant fact that the original seller who had sold property to my uncles in 1968-69 had also obtained the same in his family-partitions at that time. Please enlighten in the matter. [dilipgpawar@rediffmail.com]