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Income Tax Returns can be filed only if we have paid the Tax due to the government. If you submit the ITR without paying then your Income Tax Return can be declared Defective.
Income Tax Returns can be filed only if we have paid the Tax due to the government. If you submit the ITR without paying then your Income Tax Return can be declared Defective. Our article Defective return notice under section 139(9) talks about in detail.

Further, non payment of Tax is a criminal offence and the individual is liable to be penalized & punished under the court of law. Moreover, Interest will get added to your tax liability till the date of payment of tax.

Before filing the ITR one has to make sure that one owes no tax . If after calculating the income, taking care of deductions and deducting the tax already paid (TDS) one realises that one has paid less tax than due then one has to pay the balance tax. This tax is called Self Assessment Tax. Our article Self Assessment Tax, Pay Tax using Challan 280, Updating ITR discusses it in detail.

One has to calculate the self assessment tax, pay the Self Assessment tax using Challan 280,update the ITR and then submit it

There are no specific dates to pay Self Assessment Tax. But it has to filed before one files ITR. Non payment of Self Assessment Tax and non filing of the returns within the due date of filing i.e., 31 st July will fetch Interest under section 234.

What is the procedure for paying Self Assessment Tax?

When one needs to pay tax , Advance Tax, Self Assessment or Regular Assessment tax,Tax Payment Challan, ITNS 280 Challanis used to pay Income Tax due, if any.

It can be paid by going to designated branch and paying through cheque or cash, called as Offline
Payment.
It can also be paid through online if you have net-banking