Income Tax Refund: You have also filed your income tax return and even after the time has passed, the refund money has not come back, then check your status immediately. From this you will know that due to which the refund money has not come. This will get you on the right track to apply back and claim your refund.
New Delhi. 10 days of July have passed and now only 21 days are left to file the returns. So far, more than 2 crore people have also filed their income tax returns. Some of these people have got their return money back and many people are still waiting. If you are also one of them and the money is not coming back even after filing the return, then you can complain about it to the Income Tax Department.
Income tax expert and CA Girish Narang says that if your refund does not come even after 30 days of filing the return, first check your status. In that, you are given this information from the department as to why there is a delay in getting the refund. After knowing the exact reason for the delay in refund, you can complain about it on the official website.
To whom to complain
Taxpayers can complain about non-receipt of refund on incometax.gov.in. Apart from this, you can also complain about this on the toll free number 1800-103-4455 of the Income Tax Department. This number can be called on every working day from 8 am to 8 pm. Also, if you want, you can complain about it on the e-filing portal as well.
Where to complain if refund is not received
Taxpayers can file complaints on incometax.gov.in. They can also use the toll-free number 1800-103-4455 issued by the IT department. This number can be called between 8 am to 8 pm on working days. Apart from this, a complaint can also be lodged on the e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department. But, before this you must check your status. This will help you in asking the right questions and applying in the right way.
How to check status with acknowledgment number
According to the Income Tax Department, you can check your refund status after 10 days of filing ITR. If you want to check your ITR refund status through exposure number, here are the tips below:
- Login to Income Tax e-Filing Portal link
- Login using User ID and Password
- Go to My Account and click on Refund/Demand Status
- Go to the drop down menu, select ‘Income Tax Return’ and click on ‘Submit’ option
- Click on Acknowledgment Number
- All your ITR details including date of issue of refund will open on the new page
Check status through PAN card like this
Apart from the acknowledgment number, you can also check the refund status online through your PAN card. You can follow these steps to check refund of income tax return through PAN card.
- Login to https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/oltas/servlet/RefundStatusTrack
- Enter your PAN number and select assessment year 2022-23 and click on submit option
- After doing this your ITR refund status will open in front
What do you see in the status
If the refund is rejected in the status, then you will soon get a notice from the Income Tax Department and the outstanding amount will be accounted for. After this you can check all your documents and deposit your outstanding tax by calculating the tax.
If your details filled in the return are correct then you can file your ITR again. For this, you can fill your rectification return under section 139(4) of Income Tax. Along with this, you will also have to attach all the documents to claim the refund. If your ITR has been wrongly filled, then pay your tax immediately and file the return again.
If you forget the deduction…
If you see ‘forgot to enter deduction’ in the ITR status, then you can file your return again. You can incorporate back the deductions you forgot to enter earlier by filing a revised return.
If the bank details are wrong…
Even if the bank details entered by you in the ITR are not correct, the refund may get stuck. You will come to know in the status that you have made a mistake in the bank details. After this you can update your bank details. Your refund money can come back after the bank details are updated.
