Respect Experts,

I am an individual deductor paying monthly residential house rent to an NRI landlord. TDS has been deposited on time under Section 393(2), Sl. No. 17 (Code 1057), corresponding to the earlier Section 195.

However, due to the transition from the Income-tax Act, 1961 to the Income-tax Act, 2025, and the introduction of the new Form 144 replacing Form 27Q, I inadvertently missed filing the Q1 TDS return for Tax Year 2026–27 (April–June 2026), which was due on 31 July 2026.

I would appreciate clarification on the following:

1. Is there any late-filing fee waiver, relaxation or extension for Q1 Form 144 due to the transition to the new Income-tax Act, 2025?

2. Has CBDT issued any notification, circular or transitional relief regarding late filing fees under Section 427 for Tax Year 2026–27?

3. Since the entire TDS was deposited within the prescribed deadlines and only the quarterly statement was missed, is there any provision to waive or avoid the ₹200-per-day late filing fee?

4. Can the Q1 return be filed now without paying the late filing fee, or could CPC(TDS) subsequently raise a demand?

5. If no specific waiver is available, are there any legitimate alternative remedies, procedural options or representations available to seek relief from the late filing fee?

I would sincerely appreciate expert suggestions, practical guidance and recommendations on how best to proceed in this situation while remaining fully compliant. Any experience with similar cases involving the transition to the new Income-tax Act would be particularly helpful.

Thank you in advance for your valuable guidance and time.

Best Regards.

While preparing and validating the TDS return in Form 144, I am encountering validation errors stating that certain mandatory fields are either missing or incorrectly populated, despite all the relevant details having been entered.

The error codes are T-FV-4340, T-FV-4341, T-FV-4342 and T-FV-4343, relating to the deductee's email ID, contact number, overseas address and Tax Identification Number. Interestingly, the error message says these fields must not be provided for the relevant nature of remittance.

I have checked the details and also contacted the Webtel support team, who informed me that the issue may be due to a utility error.

Has anyone else encountered the same issue while filing Form 144? If so, please share any workaround or resolution.

Your help would be greatly appreciated, especially considering the upcoming filing deadline of 31 October 2026.

Subject: Legal Remedy for Removal of Income Tax Demand for AY 2024–25 – Charitable Trust with Section 12A and 80G Registration

I have a charitable trust registered under Section 12A and approved under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The trust regularly gets its accounts audited and files its income tax returns.

For Assessment Year 2024–25, my CA mistakenly filed Form 10BB instead of the applicable Form 10B. The Income Tax Return was also filed based on this incorrect filing.

When we discovered the mistake, we subsequently filed the correct Form 10B and revised the Income Tax Return. However, the Income Tax Department did not consider the revised filings and processed the return by disallowing the exemption claimed by the trust, resulting in an income tax demand.

I need a detailed, practical and legally supported solution to resolve this issue.

Please advise on the following:

1. Whether the department can deny the trust's exemption under Sections 11 and 12 merely because the wrong audit report form was initially filed, when the correct Form 10B and revised ITR were subsequently submitted.
2. Whether an application for condonation of delay under Section 119(2)(b), read with CBDT Circular No. 16/2024 dated 18 November 2024, is required in this case.
3. Which income tax authority should receive the condonation application, considering the time elapsed since the original due date.
4. Whether rectification under Section 154, a grievance on the Income Tax Portal, or an application to the Jurisdictional Assessing Officer/CIT (Exemption) is appropriate after condonation.
5. Whether an appeal before CIT(A) is necessary or advisable if the demand has already been raised and the appeal deadline is running or has expired.
6. The exact step-by-step procedure, relevant legal provisions, applicable CBDT circulars, supporting case laws and documents required to get the demand deleted.
7. Draft the condonation application and any subsequent rectification request or appeal grounds required in this case.

Please consider the fact that the error was inadvertent, the trust holds valid Section 12A and 80G registrations, and the correct audit report and revised return were filed after discovering the mistake. Explain the strongest available legal remedy and the appropriate order in which the applications should be filed.

I filed the TDS return and later filed a revised return with the correct details. Due to this issue, the challan was frozen. However, we have now got the challan unfrozen.

Now, while applying for the refund through Form 26B on the TRACES portal, the system is showing the maximum refund amount as only 7473 against the total challan amount of 100000.00. We are unable to apply for the full refund.

I would like to understand the following:

Why is TRACES allowing a refund of only 7473 instead of 100000.00?

Is there any minimum refund amount or any other limit for claiming a TDS refund?

Could this problem be due to the original TDS return, revised TDS return, or challan details?

Since the challan has already been unfrozen, is any further correction or action required?

How can we claim the full refund of 100000.00 ?

Has anyone faced a similar issue and successfully received the full refund? If yes, please share the procedure.

I would be grateful for guidance from CAs and tax professionals who have handled similar cases.

Our objective is to claim the full refund of 100000.00 as the TDS was deducted and deposited by mistake.

Thank you for your help and valuable suggestions.

Dear Sir
Let me Know what is Purchase Entry Passed in Books of Account.

Thanks

I have undisclosed account in ICBC bank China with around 21960 CNY since 2018 and currently it could be dormant. It was opened anticipating some potential business but not materialized due to COVID etc. However, now received SMS from IT system to utilize FAST DS26 scheme till Dec26. I have checked in compliance portal and see the account reflecting with balance of 21850 CNY and interest of around 110CNY for CY 2022 & 2023 ie total of around Rs 314,500. I have accepted the amounts in compliance portal. Now my query is should I utilize the FAST DS26 and pay Rs 189000 ie 60% of total balance as tax or will the Rs 20 lakh immunity protect me from 120% levy if I dont avail the scheme. I will have to consider the entire amount as income as the current account is dormant, i dont have any bank statements as of now and will not be able to show source etc as is very old and not sure if ICBC will share statements without reactivation of account etc. The deposits was by way of sale of samples I was carrying during that time. I have been resident all through. Please advise.

Dear Experts
I had salary and business income in FY 2023-24, so I filed ITR4 and submitted form 10IEA for opting old regime .
In FY 2024-25, I had only salary income. So I opted new regime without submitting form 10IEA.
In FY 2025-26, I had salary and business income again. So I filed ITR4 continuing new regime as I opted it last year. But income tax department now seeking a clarification for not submitting form 10IEA again this year. They are saying that this year income will be treated as per old regime since business income is there.
I am hopefully looking for your kind advice about how to respond to this query.

1) prepared an Excel bank entries template
2) created all required ledger accounts in Tally
3) created Tally mapping template in Tally
4) imported all bank entries into Tally successfully
5) when Alt+R is pressed unreconciled bank entries should be seen. but they are not seen.
6) therefore, manual bank reconciliation cannot be done
7) Tally shows them a "Available only in books"

Kindly suggest a solution to this issue. Thanks!

Hello Experts -

This is a question from a lay person regading the recently (CG-DL-E-15082026-275490) introduced FAST-DS 2026 scheme.
Here it mentions that any money paid by a declarant via the scheme (fee/penalty etc for disclosure) is non refundable, cant be set off etc.
Question:
For person declaring a bank a/c under this scheme, the requiement is 'Sum of all deposits'. A person who had this a/c a decade ago was informed by the foreign bank that the retention policy meant that the statements are only available after 2018.
The rules just ask for supporting documentation but theres no room for variation when reporting 'sum of all deposit' for bank account, an alternative was not provided in the rules. (though it was provided during a similar scheme in 2015) ie, Question 5. https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/documents/d/guest/circular15_2015-pdf

Main part -
SInce there's no refund, & no mention of a provision/mechanism (like e-campaign for taxes) for a declarant to answer queries that the dept might have about a declaration made by a person., the person has no alternative but to declare pay the amount and then hope it is approved (since there;s no mention of 'Best estimate' alternate for 'sum of all deposits' like the scheme in 2015)?
From the way it is framed (atleast to a lay person) it looks like there's no support or explanation mechanism mentioned in the scheme for edge cases, so after paying the dialog is closed and if it is rejected for whatever reason, the person filing wont know the reason and most importantly the money will be lost.
Can an expert or someone who is reasonably familiar with law-speak please reply if this is as rigid and recourseless as it appears to be.

Thanks in advance for your expertise

Hello Members,

I seek your guidance regarding a TDS issue on property sale.

My total TDS liability was INR 9,695.

I paid INR 9,635 on 7th November 2025, which was within the due date.

The remaining balance of INR 60 was paid later on 3rd September 2026 through a fresh Form 26QB.

Despite this, the Income Tax Department (ITD) has issued a defaulter notice and imposed a significant penalty on the amount of INR 9,635, which I had already paid on time.

I need advice on:

How to draft a reply to ITD clarifying that INR 9,635 was paid within the due date? To whom I should address, what is the email id?
How to link both Form 26QBs (acknowledgement numbers) to demonstrate that the full liability of INR 9,695 has been discharged?

Any expert inputs or references to relevant provisions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Somenath Dhar