Correction in 26AS Form
ITR filing: How to get errors in Form 26AS corrected.
Form 26AS is a statement containing details of all the taxes that are deducted during the FY from your income and deposited against your PAN to the government.
Form 26AS is a statement containing details of all the taxes that are deducted during the financial year from your income and deposited against your PAN to the government. Apart from taxes deducted by your employer from your salary or by a bank from interest income, Form 26AS also shows the taxes that are deposited by you as advance tax or self-assessment tax.
Reasons for error in Form 26AS
There are many reasons due to which there can be errors in Form 26AS. Soni says, "There are several reasons due to which tax credit as seen in the Form 26AS might not match with the amount actually deducted as shown in the salary slips. Some of these reasons could be - amount of tax deducted from salary is not correctly reported by the employer, TDS deduction is reported in wrong section, amount deposited with government as TDS is wrongly mentioned."
How to rectify error in Form 26AS
Rectification of error in Form 26AS depends on the cause of the error.
