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Tax Expert - Answered on Jul 23, 2026

Vipul Bhavsar is a chartered accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has over 16 years of experience in corporate advisory, taxation and financial reporting.
His interest areas are consulting, income tax, GST and due diligence.
He founded his CA firm, V J Bhavsar and Associates, in 2010 through which he offers services like virtual CFO, trademark registrations, company /LLP formation, MIS reporting, audit, tax and TDS compliances, accounts receivable/payable management and payroll processing.... more

Asked by Anonymous - Jul 21, 2026

Sir,I had opened post office 5year recurring deposit account on 26/03/2016 with regular monthly installment of rs 25000 from my salary income which was already offered for income tax..On maturity on 26/03/2021,I continued the account with further monthly installment of rs.25000at same interest rate of 8.4%for another 5 years .As the account matured on 26/03/2026,I closed the account on 27/03/2026 and maturity proceeds inclusive of interest was credited to my post office Savings bank account.Postal department didnot issue yearlyinterest certificate with annual interest accrued from 2016-2026period.On 29/04/2026,interest certificate was issued by postal dept.showing cumulative interest paid on 27/03/2026 for entire 10 year period.As I was preparing to file my ITR1 for A.Y2026-2027,after reconciling form16,26AS,TIN,system is showing interest due on taxable Rd interest income from1/04/2026til31/07/2026(section 234B for 4months)and advance tax dues from1/04/2025to 31/03/2026 on RD interest income paid on 27/03/2026 under section 234C.Can I appeal against section 234C tax dues as the postal dept didnot issue yearly interest accrued certificates for Rd account and I could not pay advance tax on RD interest income as the cumulative interest paid was known on 27/03/2026 after RD account matured and closed .

Ans: Assuming that we are speaking for Filing Return of Income for the AY 2026-27 FY 2025-26 ending on 31 Mar 2026.
Getting Interest Certificate and filing return of Income is responsibility of the Tax Payer. One cannot say that post office didnt issue certificate in time. Chances of going in appeal and expecting positive result is very less.

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Ans: Thank you so much for your compliment. Looking at your facts, I wish you could have got professional advice on 1^st August itself. My views on your queries are as follows:

I understand you are using online feature of filing Income Tax Return at www.incometax.gov.in wherein data is prefilled based on information reported by different persons (like employer for salary, bank for interest income, company for dividend income, TDS deductor for TDS deducted and amount of income credited, etc.). In your case, it might be possible that reportable entity has revised its data for reporting to income tax department and accordingly amount appearing in intimation issued u/s 143(1) differs from amount auto populated while filing income tax return u/s 139(5) of Income Tax Act using online feature.

It is not advisable to restrict auto populated income unless income auto populated at e-filing portal is incorrect. Check AIS for income auto populated at e-filing portal. If income appearing in AIS is incorrect, you can file feedback for AIS and offer actual income to tax while filing return u/s 139(5) of the act which allow tax payer to revise return by rectifying mistakes.

Yes, income tax provides updated figure at portal even if intimation is issued u/s 143(1) of the Act, as revised figures is provided by the payer of income or person authorised as reportable entity.

I understand you are talking about self-assessment tax paid by you and not auto populated in relevant schedule of ITR. Reason for the same can be wrong selection of year or code while making payment or while uploading challan details by the bank. Please check 26AS for self-assessment tax paid, if the same is not appearing in 26AS of AY 2022-23, you have to discuss said issue with Jurisdictional officer.

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Ans: I understand you would have complied with verification requirement within prescribed time limit of 120 days.

With reference to wrong amount appearing in 26AS, as you have already taken appropriate steps, you can wait for 26AS updation.

If any tax demand is raised before 26AS updation, you have to contact CPC department of Income Tax. Through telephonic talk you have to explain the issue and request them to transfer your ITR to jurisdictional assessing officer (AO) so demand is deleted.

Once ITR is transferred to AO, you can explain to issue to AO, file copy of your communications/grievances.

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Ans: If TDS is deducted and there was delay in depositing TDS, said TDS amount cannot be recovered from deductee. There are some judicial pronouncements for the same which provides relief to taxpayer (deductee). But in given case, I understand that it is not case of delay but amount credited in different year.

In such a case, you can request to jurisdictional officer to provide credit of TDS in the year in which income is offered to tax though TDS is appearing in 26AS of subsequent year and it can be subject to litigation.

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