Tax office sends out notices 'by mistake': Report

The Income Tax department's

CPC

(Central Processing Centre) has sent out notices to a number of individuals stating that the details provided by them in their Income Tax Return (

ITR

) is incorrect and needs to be adjusted, according to a report by a website, 'www.bemoneyaware.com', . However, it goes on to say that many of these notices have been sent 'by mistake'.

Reported notice sent by CPC (Image courtesy: www.bemoneyaware.com)

The CPC is the central database centre of the department which receives all Income Tax Returns (ITRs), both e-filed and sent through post, and processes them for issuance of refunds and also deals with other tax related documents of a taxpayer.

The website claims that these notices have been sent to some taxpayers who have claimed investments under

Section 80C

or HRA that are not mentioned in their Form 16. It has also reported that people having incomes from savings bank account interest, income from fixed deposits or house property- some other income sources not included in the Form 16- have also been served these notices.

However, the website which deals with finance related issues, says that there is 'no need to panic' as some of its users have received correspondence from the CPC that these notices may have been sent 'by mistake' and that the tax body will send a 'revised communication'.

Reported comment by one of the website users (Image source: www.bemoneyaware.com)






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