234 f penalty

While filling my friends return for Assessment year 2025-26 in form 2, I find 234 f penalty of 5000 is computed . 

I am baffled since the tax return is in time I.e before 15 th September 2025.

So tax is shown as outstanding.

.has anyone faced this problem ?

.what is the solution please 

 

 

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Quick Summary
A user encountered an unexpected £5,000 Section 234F penalty on an Income Tax return filed before the 15th September deadline. It appears the filing utility may still be calculating the penalty based on the earlier 31st July deadline. While one suggestion is to check and correct the filing date in the 'General' schedule, the user is struggling to find this option in the offline utility and is exploring the online version. The consensus is that the penalty should not be paid if the return was filed on time.

No problem as such. Check schedule 'General'..... for date of filling .... Correct it...

Thanks. Will try it.

 

Regards 

You are welcome.             

@ Sushant Bidaye

This is what I was afraid of. Refer my posts on this worry.

The filing date has been extended to 15-Sept-2025. However the Filing Utilities must be still calculating late filing penalty as per last date of 31 July 2025.

And I had mentioned that I do not have the time, money, and energy for collecting back miscalculated amount. And therefore, completed calculating/paying Self Assessment and filing the return well before 31 July 2025.

I expect many would get into this 234f penalty situation now.

Yes Ranjan Sir,

 

You are right. I also did the same thing in my case  but now struggling for this problem with my friends return.

 

Dhiraj Sir 's solution working is not as I am doing through offline utility and I can't find the cell to correct the due date. May be I will try with online utility and see whether I can escape.

 

But in no case I will pay the penalty that we are not supposed to pay.

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