The income tax department’s e-filing portal has issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on challan status inquiry (CSI) for the TAN users.
Only TAN users can download a CSI file using TAN as user ID. Tax Deduction Account Number or Tax Collection Account Number is a 10 -digit alpha-numeric number issued by the Income tax Department. TAN is to be obtained by all persons who are responsible for deducting tax at source (TDS) or who are required to collect tax at source (TCS).
As per the FAQ, the taxpayers cannot download the CSI (Challan Status Inquiry) file by filtering challans based on the Assessment Year or Type of Payment. They can only download the CSI file by filtering challans paid during a specific period (From – to-To date) not exceeding 24 months.
Further, the challan for payments made through the NSDL portal will also be available in CSI file downloaded using “ePay Tax” service on e-Filing portal. However, the challan receipts for NSDL Payment will not be available for download.
The FAQ was prepared by the Central Boards Direct Taxes (CBDT) since the taxpayers were facing difficulties is making the payment and generate challan. Following this, various taxpayers and tax practitioners were posting inquiries via twitter.
“Dear @tax_scan, Some banks have been migrated from OLTAS e-Payment of Taxes at NSDL to e-Pay Tax facility at the e-Filing portal for payment of taxes. Pl refer to the live ticker on the TIN-NSDL e payment site,” the CBDT responded last week.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is a statutory authority functioning under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963. The officials of the Board in their ex-officio capacity also function as a Division of the Ministry dealing with matters relating to levy and collection of direct taxes.
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