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Tax Expert - Answered on May 04, 2023

CA Tejas Chokshi has over 20 years of experience in financial planning, income tax planning, strategic and risk advisory, banking and financial products and accounting and auditing.
He is an information system auditor, a forensic auditor and concurrent bank auditor.
Chokshi, who has a master’s degree in management, audit and accounting from Gujarat University, has completed his CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.... more

Question by ATANU on May 03, 2023Hindi

SIR , I am a Senior Citizen retired from service in January 2020 ,ITR for AY 2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23 filed in time and eligible for return of excess deposit of TAX in every AY. Deposit of TDS with TAN NO all are shown in 26 AS and also showing in ITR calculation but TAX AUTHORITY is not considering the CREDIT of TDS deposited by Deducting Authority and claiming for DEPOSIT the full amount instead of RETURNING the EXCESS DEDUCTION of TDS.. many times it is being complain in Grievance Cell but no correction is being done by ITR BANGALORE AUTHORITY and every time claim are showing as it is. Please advice me how it can be settled and can get return of my excess deductions of TDS . Regards ATANU KUMAR NAYAK,

Ans: I'm sorry to hear about the issue you're facing with the tax authority. Here are some steps you can take to resolve the issue:

Verify the TDS credit: Check if the TDS credit shown in your Form 26AS matches the TDS amount shown in your Form 16/16A or any other TDS certificate issued to you by the deductor. If there is any discrepancy, you may need to contact the deductor and get the correct TDS certificate.

Raise a grievance: If you have already verified the TDS credit and found it to be correct, you can raise a grievance with the tax authority. You can do this online by logging into the e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department and submitting a grievance under the 'e-Nivaran' tab. Provide all the relevant details and documents to support your claim.

Follow up: After raising the grievance, you may need to follow up with the tax authority to ensure that your issue is being addressed. You can track the status of your grievance online using the grievance ID provided to you.

Seems you have followed all the above steps. In my opinion, instead of filling grievance, you may have opted for rectification under provisions of section 154 of the Income tax Act, 1961.
You may visit, "Work-listing" or "e-proceedings" or "Under respond to outstanding demand", which will navigate you to another page, where in you will be taken to the "Agree/ disagree with the demand" . You may disagree in full or in partial and there would be number of options that would be auto populated , from which you may select , "Rectification", basis rectification filled as explained above. In rectification, you may have to select the option, TDS mismatch, which will navigate you to the page which will display, difference if any between TDS claimed and TDS allowed by the Central Processing.

I hope the above step may resolve your issue.

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