Can a officer assigned in faceless scrutiny in income tax contact thru his means for favour

I am regular reader of your views. It helps to understand various rules and obligations of a tax payer. Now I have come across a peculiar situation. Father of a son, a trekker, went missing during one of his expeditions in Himachal Pradesh. His wife flew to the last known place from where he called her. At that place police station, after detailed discussion, newspaper reports, and enquiries a complaint was registered. Subsequently vast searches were done including aerial search by army, ITBP, Air Force personnel. He could not be traced. Police has confirmed that they could not locate but continue to search; two years lapsed already. Query: In the past two years, various fixed deposits in joint names, either or survivor, have all been encashed by father on maturity. Father, a sr. citizen, and also tax assessee 30% slab, has paid all taxes against his own income and filed his return against his own PAN no. But for his son, in line with his (son's) 26AS report, the income tax is paid against his (son's) PAN for the last two years. A refund is also due in one year. But ITR 2 could not be uploaded against son's PAN since OTP will be received in his (son's) mobile which is not available. Father cannot sign as representative as no confirmed report of the failure of searches is available at the moment. Son's wife, in 30% slab, has filed her return for her income. No will or POA, or any written authorisation is available. Please suggest how to proceed.

Please provide correct advice in the following situation. We filed ROI for AY 2019-20 on 30-10-2019 and paid a tax amount of Rs 1,20,03,465/- under section 115JB. Above return was processed u/s 143 (1) by intimation dated 19-05-2020. The Company has deposited Advance tax of Rs. 40, 00,000/- and ITR -6 for AY 2019-20 was filed under Section 139 on 30-10-2019 to obviate any violation in Tax compliance including the TDS claim of Rs. 87,29,484/-. In the Intimation order the assessing officer had accepted the income and other claims of the Appellant but had demanded Rs 97,85,148/- as balance tax and interest. During the Assessment Year relevant to Previous Year 2018-19, the land under the ownership of the Assessee has been taken over by the Government for Guruvayur Dewaswam (GD). LA compensation of Rs.38565360/- (on 5- 2-2018), Rs.4,00,00,000/- (on 4-2-2019), and Rs.48,28,009/- on19-11-2020 were paid to the Petitioner Company. Deductor, GD did not deposit the TDS to government in relevant years, this resulted in the demand of Rs. 97,85,148/- on Company towards balance tax and interest in the intimation u/s 143 (1) dated 19-05-2020. GD deposited Rs.95,02,088 /- towards TDS and Rs.21, 25,421 /-towards TDS and interest on 30-1-2021 and filed TDS return for the Assessment Year 2021-22. (not AY 2019-20). Deductor is delaying filing revised TDS return in spite of many requests even by Income tax authorities. Can the Income tax department seek to recover Income tax with fine from Company for AY 2019-20, on mere fact that Petitioner could not account for deposit of such tax (TDS) (Rs.87,29,484/-, only because the deductor, after paying the compensation to Petitioner in relevant year, did not deposit TDS to government revenue? Should the assessee suffer for the fault of the deductor? We understand There is a bar under Section 205 and circular of CBDT in this matter.

Sir I am Government Servant. My income falls under the IT ceiling and I am paying income tax for last 20 years through my employer as TDS. Recently I received a mail from IT Department regarding outstanding Tax demand for FY 2011-12. On verification of Form26AS downloaded from TRACES, it is observed that my TDS amount is Nil whereas my Form16 clearly show that the TDS amount has been debited from Salary. The consultant who deals with the filing of return advise that I have to pay the demand. Because if he proceed for data correction in 2011-12, the employer will be in problem as there will be several corrections. I cant understand his stand. This is not only my problem. I came to understand that several other employees received similar demands for the periods 2008 to 2012. Please advise

Dear Sir, My wife is as a housewife. I transfer my incentive amount in her bank account (saving) for save income tax on my salary. the amount is approx 480000 per financial year. in future Can my wife's income source be investigated by Income Tax Department in future? please guide me on urgent basis and what the soluation.