Outdated tax demand notification just noticed

Dear Venkatesh,

Intimation is generated for each year of return you file with IT dept. It generally goes to the registered email id which could be of your CA

If in your login at  Income Tax website under My Account - Refund Demand status shows a Demand you are liable to pay that demand. The demand could be erroneous due to non credit of TDS.

You must go through the Intimation and identify the difference. Once difference is identified you may file a rectification. Otherwise you will be liable to pay this amount. please do not assume that matter is over as IT dept may wake up after 5 years also and ask for outstanding demand.

Please consult your CA for future course of action.

Venkatesh, I too in same boat. No initimations for me too. All of a sudden, demands tax for earlier years.

Meet your CA. Also see your intimation u/s 143(1) which will tell the reason for outstanding demand. You will need to rectify/revise it. It could be done online if you filed ITR online.

Thanks for the replies. I will take a copy of the form 16 and the filed ITR and approach a CA. I do not have a CPC intimation and hence, i cannot figure out what the issue is.

I tried going to My Account -> Request for Intimation u/s 143(1)/154 , to get the intimation emailed to me. But the site says there is "No Intimation order exists for the Assessment Year." when i tried for assessment year 2010-11 , the year where it says i have dues under "My Account -> Outstanding Tax Demand"

Does this mean that i will receive an intimation in the future and not worry about it right now. Is there anywhere else i can get a copy of the intimation, so that it would be helpful for me to find out what went wrong.

It seems you might have filed a physical return instead of filing it online and hence intimation is not available. If physical returns are filed the intimations do not reach the assessee. They are prepared and kept by the local Tax Dept. They will never send it to you and later on they will deduct the amounts from your refunds. You will need to contact your Jurisdictional Assessing Officer to get the intimation.

Thanks Niral,

This is in the year 2010 (assessment year 2010-2011) and as you rightly said, the first time i ever filed tax online was from the next assessment year when i went through a consultant as i had 2 form 16s. I remember in 2010 i went to the tax filing counter for that year and filed the return myself.

I will call up the IT call center to find out how to get in touch with Jurisdictional Assessing Officer to get a copy of the intimation.

- If i never get a copy of the intimation and i have  a case where i never have a refund (since i trust my company finance folks to compute my tax correctly ), will i accrue interest for the payment to be made

@ Venkatesh, Hope you will update your expereince here so that will help others like me in future. Since you paper filed in AY 2010-11, now every further revision/rectification for that AY has to be paper filed. Hope your jurisdictional officer is in your current city. Or else, it is doom.

It is not only about refund but tax due alongwith interest till you have not paid can be demanded from you anytime. I have attended a case where demand of 20 years back was asked to be paid by IT dept. You can get your AO information from incometaxindia.gov.in under PAN tab there is Know your AO code. I think you should ask a CA to get this done for you

@ niral

Thanks.. found out the AO, lives in the other end of the city. I will contact a CA and see how to rectify this issue.

Since it was paper filing, CA can help only after, you get the initimation u/s 143 from AO. Without knowing the reason for tax outstanding, CA cannot file a rectification/revision. I am assuming this is not a case of tax credit mismatch, which you would have identified on your own.