Procedure for application for Accounts Office Identification Number (AIN) for Government offices required to file Form 24G

Introduction

The Pay and Accounts Office (PAO)/ District Treasury Office (DTO)/ Cheque Drawing and Disbursing Office (CDDO) are required to file Form 24G as per Income-tax Department Notification no. 41/2010 dated May 31, 2010. In case of an office of the Government, where tax has been paid to the credit of Central Government without the production of a challan associated with deposit of the tax in a bank, the PAO / CDDO / DTO is required to file Form 24G. For filing Form 24G each PAO / CDDO / DTO is required to have an AIN. AIN is the identification of the PAO / CDDO / DTO for the purpose of filing Form 24G. It is mandatory for each PAO / CDDO / DTO to have an AIN.

How to Apply

• Application for AIN has to be made in the form ‘Application for allotment of Accounts Office Identification Number’ (AIN application form).
• The application has to be made in physical form as per guidelines provided with the AIN application form.

Where to get the physical application forms

• The application form can be downloaded from the Income Tax Department website (www.incometaxindia.gov.in) or the TIN website www.tin-nsdl.com or from the office of the Income Tax Department.
• The duly filled and signed application for AIN allotment is to be submitted in physical form to the jurisdictional CIT (TDS).
• The details of the CIT (TDS) are available on the TIN website (www.tin-nsdl.com)

Allotment of AIN

• Complete and correct AIN application forms submitted by the PAO / CDDO / DTO will be forwarded to National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) by the CIT (TDS) recommending allotment of AIN to the PAO / CDDO / DTO.
• AIN allotment letter will be sent to the PAO / CDDO / DTO at the address mentioned in the AIN allotment form.

Download of AIN application

Deductors who do not have a AIN can apply for one by submitting a duly filled and signed AIN application form to jurisdictional CIT (TDS). 

AIN Application

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