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How to file a rectification request against an intimation
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Facts
Rectification against a CPC intimation is filed online on the e-Filing portal under Services, Rectification. You choose a request type: reprocess the return, tax credit mismatch correction, or return data correction.
Provisions and law
- Sec 154, Income-tax Act 1961 (now Sec 287)A mistake apparent from the record can be rectified on request, within four years from the end of the financial year in which the order was passed.
Analysis
Pick reprocess when you filed correct details but CPC did not consider them. Pick tax credit mismatch when TDS, TCS or a challan needs editing. Pick return data correction for things like a wrong head of income that do not change total income or deductions. You cannot make new claims through rectification, and you cannot file a second request for the same year until the first is processed.
Conclusion
- Log in and go to Services, then Rectification.
- Click New Request and choose Income Tax as the order type.
- Select the assessment year and the request type.
- Fill in or upload the details and submit.
- Save the 15-digit rectification reference number.
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