Reasons when you can get a notice from income tax dept

The income tax department started a move to collect as much as it can into income tax filing scenario. In this contrast, many people got the notice from income tax department saying file income tax return or some discrepancies in income tax return or TDS return.

 

The number of notice sent to people rises suddenly. This is not because people stop filing income tax return or paying taxes. It is because income tax authorities have a big database and tracking system with which it can send notices to people.

 

 PAN (Permanent account number) plays a vital role as it must for almost all the financial transactions and also give the chance to peep in your financial status. This not only tracks how much you earn but also how much you spend.

 

The income tax department also has CASS (Computer-aided scrutiny system) which shows any discrepancy in income tax return filed.

 

There are the common reasons with which you can get an income tax notice.

 

Permanent account number (PAN) is must for high-value transactions. People always want to escape from mentioning PAN in investment like FDRs. TDS will be deducted at 20% instead of 10% if PAN number is not with the documents for investments.

 

In the case of incorrect PAN, there is a provision of penalty of Rs. 10 thousand. Also TDS will not be credited in your account and may be in other account.

 

Form 26AS has the details any individual paid taxes during the financial year. It includes any TDS deducted with your PAN number. You can easily check Form 26AS details from incometaxefiling.gov.in. Some banks too are giving an option to check form 26AS with the net banking facility.

 

If any TDS deducted with your PAN either by employer, banks or any other, you must check the correct details of TDS paid against your PAN number. Any mismatch can lead a notice from income tax department.

 

The entire financial institute fetches report of earning and expenses to income tax department. Computer-enabled software CASS matches it with income tax return filed by the individual. Any mismatch will surely serve you a notice by the income tax department.

 

Financial institutes include banks, share broker, registrar of properties, mutual fund houses etc. They all demands PAN while doing high-value transactions and report it to the department.

 

Filing income tax return is mandatory whose gross income during the financial year is above RS. 2 lakh. Gross income means before deducting the allowance and investment value such as tax savings, home loan, education loan etc.  There is a provision of penalty up to 300 percent of outstanding tax. 

File income tax return or serve yourself a notice from the income tax department.

 

Timely filing of income tax return also is a good way to escape with the notice from the department. You can file income tax return at the end of assessment year. You can file income tax return of 2012-13 on 31 March 2014.

 

Any late in filing income tax return may carry problems like you cannot carry forward your losses if income tax file after due date. Also there is no provision of revised income tax return after deadline. There is also a provision of penalty of Rs. 5000 in late filing of income tax return.

 

Now income tax department has full data of your previous employer income with CASS help as well as if the previous employer deducts any TDS on your income, Form 26AS will immediately show against your PAN card. So show the previous employer income in your income tax return or you will serve a notice plus 300 percent penalty on tax evaded.

 

Form 15G and 15H are the declaration that the income is less than exempted limit; hence no TDS should be deducted. People use it for saving TDS liability and give it to financial authorities. But now you need to mention PAN number for submitting form 15G and 15H. If any wrong declaration is made, income tax department can easily catch it and serve you a notice.

 

 Declare interest on bank account and savings

Interest earned on fixed deposit, saving account, recurring deposit, bond interest is taxable and you must mention it on income tax return. Interest earned on saving account up to Rs. 10000 is tax free but it must be mentioned in income tax return. Interest on post office saving is tax exempted up to Rs. 3500 for individual and Rs. 7000 for joint account holder.

 

 Respond income tax intimation or notice

One must respond to any intimation or notice from income tax department. There may be some mistake from the department too but ignoring them may be very painful as income tax department may treat you in default and can take final step. So respond timely.

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