Reply to Income Tax Notices Starting from ₹ 5,000/-
Introduction
A tax notice is a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that alerts a taxpayer about an issues with their tax return and tax paid to the department. A tax notice can be sent to you for many reasons it may be for informing you about a correction on a return, a balance due, or an overpaid of tax.
Sprinthub Solutions will provide you all the necessary services and legal advice related income Tax notices and also guide for other compliances related reply for these notices. You may get in touch with our team on 096436-69475 or email info@sprinthub.in.
Documents Required
Pan Card and password of your income tax portal is required now a days to check and reply any type of income tax notice, Documents required can only be called as per the demand and type of notice.
Procedure
Step 1
Complete the Questionnaire
We will provide a questionnaire which is required to be filled by you in which we will sought the basic details and documents pertaining to the Filing of Reply of Income Tax Notice..
Step 2
Review of the documents
All the documents provided to us and the questionnaire will help us to process further for preparation of reply of ITR Notice
Step 3
Filing of Reply with the Government
We will file further send you the provisional return for your verification and will file your TDS return before the due date and protect you from any penalty after its duly confirmed and validated from your side.
Step 4
Acknowledgement
We will further inform you about the same and send you the copy of reply via mail.
Additional Information
Types of Notice or Assessments
Types of notices or assessments are given below: (Show in boxes or make some image)
- Defective Income Tax Return: Section 139(9).
- Income is concealed or likely to be concealed: Section 131(1A).
- Preliminary Enquiry before an assessment: Section 142(1).
- Notice of demand: Section 156.
- Refund adjusted against the tax demand: Section 245
- Follow up of the notice u/s 142(1): Section 143(2).
- Summary assessment without calling the taxpayer: Section 143(1).
- Scrutiny assessment: Section 143(3).
- Best judgment assessment: Section 144
- Income escaped assessment: Section 148 & 147.
What is the next step you should do when you receive an Income Tax notice?
Don’t Ignore the notice: Handle the notice very carefully and sincerely, otherwise you have to pay heavy penalty.
Check the notice carefully: Check whether the notice denotes to you by checking basic things like PAN, Name, Assessment year and it related to issuing officer (ITO), signature, address with details of ward and circle number of income tax department. Verify these details to check whether it relates to you only.
Preserve the envelope and save the copy of mail: – If the notice comes by speed post or registered post, preserve the envelope. If notice comes on mail then save the copy of that mail as It serves as proof of the dates on which it was posted and received.
Verify the reason behind the notice: By reading the notice one can easily Identify and check the reason behind notice. Reasons could be a mismatch in TDS (26AS) or inconsistency in your returns, or any serious concerns like any type of income concealment. It can also be a survey or scrutiny of accounts.
Timeline given to reply: Check the validity and timeline to reply the notice. Also check the section in which the notice issued. For E.g.: A notice under Section 143(3) for scrutiny assessment has to be served within six months of the end of the financial year in which the return was filed. If served later than this period, it will be considered invalid.
Collect the documents:
After receiving the notice one has to start collecting the documents that the department has requested through notice Documents required depends upon the gravity of the notice, generally only scrutiny notice may ask for several documents, other notice generally required very less documents.
Covering Letter: Prepare a covering letter along with the set of documents that you have to submit to the IT department.
Acknowledgement of submission: Always prepare two set of all the documents required, along with a copy of the covering letter and notice. One copy stamped to maintain personal records, as a proof of submission of the reply of notice.
Reply under prescribed time limit: Always reply the notice under the prescribed time limit and if you are unable to collect the required documents under prescribed time limit then you can ask for some time to gather all the documents.
Take the help of Sprinthub Solutions:- If notice is about a TDS mismatch, factual matter or arithmetical error then the taxpayer own can reply for the notice but when it comes to the scrutiny notice or reassessment U/s 148 then one should take the professional advice with the Sprinthub Solutions that is equipped with the team of chartered accountants and company secretaries. We will understand the situation and response accordingly.
Reason for Income Tax notices
- Mismatch of TDS claimed in form 26AS
- Non disclosure of income
- Misreporting of capital gain form securities
- Return not filed or delayed filed
- Non disclosure of investment income (taxable under clubbing section)
- Filling defective return
- Transaction with high value
- Return picked under Scrutiny by the department
- Taking more refund claim
- Tax evasion
- Investment in the name of spouse
- Random scrutiny