INCOME TAX

Release of a utility to allow Assessing Officers to claim challan lying at other RCCs/CCs owing to population of wrong PAN/TAN -regarding.

OLTAS INSTRUCTION NO. 40,

Dated: 01.10.2009

Please refer to the OLTAS Instruction No 39 dated 09.09.2009 through which a utility was released to allow Inspectors of field formations to claim outstation challans lying in suspense at other RCCs/CCs. This facility  will be able to solve one aspect of the problem. However, many such instances have been reported where by mistake the tax payers have written PAN instead of TAN or otherwise, on the challans or  have erroneously written TAN/PAN of their sister organization or other assessees or that the bank has erroneously uploaded the tax payments against PAN /TAN of other tax payers.

2. In order to resolve the above mentioned problems, a new utility is being released to allow AOs to claim payment lying unprocessed at other RCCs/CCs to give credit to the genuine taxpayers. The salient features of the utility are as follows :

1. A user with AR_ITOAC role can claim challans lying at other RCCs/CCs.
2. Data of only previous years and not the current year can be claimed.
3. The AO claiming challan must know the CIN, Amount and Major Head of the payment. AO can populate PAN/TAN of his/her RCC/CC only.
4. In this operation, verification of both AOs, i.e. AO1 ( under whom the payment is lying) and AO2 (who has started the initiative to claim the payment ) is a must.

3. After the above claim and verification the challan data will be routed to the RCC, where the corrected PAN /TAN resides, for assessment purpose. The steps needed for this purpose and snapshots of the relevant  screens are enclosed as Annexure 'A'.

4. It is requested to bring these changes to the notice of all users under your RCC / Computer Centre.

                                                                        Yours faithfully,

Encl : As above.

(Ravi Agrawal)

                                           Director of Income Tax (Systems)-II