E- Sahyog introduced to highlight the Mismatch of information with any tax authorities

 

Attention assessee!! Before filing return or providing any information in the return think of all the information provided in any other return filed. E- Sahyog introduced to highlight the Mismatch of information with any tax authorities

The Government has started a new campaign called E-Sahyog to ask for information/ response from assessees where there is mismatch found in information given by the assessees in the Income Tax return and that given to/by other third parties in respect of the assessee.

 

In addition, the income tax department will compare information relating to the assessee available with the other parties such as service tax department, VAT, TDS Department, Registrar of properties etc. with the information provided by the assessee in the income tax return and any mismatches will have to be explained by the assesses by way of response in the E-Sahyog tab in the IT login of the assessee.

 

The Income Tax Department will compare information as given by the assessee to the other government departments or as available with these departments which are provided by any other person in respect of the assessee like:

 

• Comparison of the details provided in the service tax return of the assessee with the income as shown in the income tax return.
• Comparison of the sales consideration for transfer of immovable property as reported in AIR by the registrar of properties and as reported by the assessee.
• Comparison of income shown from transfer of immovable property with that shown by the buyer in his TDS statement.

 

In case there is some mismatch then the details of such mismatch are available in the E-Sahyog link available in the ‘My Pending actions’ link available under the worklist Tab in the Login of the assessee.

 

To respond to the mismatch, assessee needs to click on the Link “Response” to open “Return Mismatch Response”.

 

So, assessees beware. With the said facility, now, Income Tax Department will keep an eye on all the information provided with any tax authorities.

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