Income Tax Notice: Important news for taxpayers. In fact, if such a fake income tax notice comes to your house too, then read some easy ways to identify it in this news below…
Income tax notice: Income tax return filed? The IT department must have completed the assessment by now. Now you will get Intimation. It comes to all taxpayers. But, some people also get a notice (IT Notice) from the Income Tax Department. These are those taxpayers who have made a mistake in filing their return or have paid less tax than the tax paid. Have you received a notice from the Income Tax Department?
Fake notice of income tax notice?
Getting notices is not a new thing, but is this notice fake (Fake Income tax notice)? Recently, many such cases have come to the fore, in which people are being cheated regarding income tax notice. Meaning fake notices are being sent to people’s homes. So have you also not received the fake notice? Even if it is so, there is no need to panic. Now you can easily find out about fake notices.
Check from the IT department’s site-
Many times, due to less knowledge of Income Tax Notice, fraudsters take advantage of taxpayers. Fraudsters cheat the general public by calling and mailing them. But, now you can easily find out about it on the e-filing website of the Income Tax Department.
Follow these steps (Steps to check income tax notice)-
- Visit Income Tax Department’s portal – www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in
Now go to ‘Quick Links’ - Here under ‘Authenticate’ you click on ‘Notice/Order Issued By ITD’
- Document number found in the notice Or enter PAN number, assessment year, month and year of issue of notice
- Now submit by entering the ‘Captcha Code’
- By doing so, you will see ‘Yes, Notice is valid and issued by Income Tax Authority’ written in front of you (if it is genuine)
- Fake notice will be detected
if you do not see such written If given then it means that your notice is fake (Fake Income tax notice). Means someone is planning to cheat you. Therefore, after receiving the notice, do check it from the Income Tax Department’s site (How to check genuine Income tax notice).