How to Correct Challan 280 / If you have paid Challan 280 Online

While filling Challan 280 for self assessment tax, advance tax one may make mistake such as mention wrong Assessment year or Incorrect PAN or TAN etc. It is necessary to correct such mistakes otherwise tax would not be credited to you in correct year and you might get notice from Income tax department for tax due. This article talks about How should one rectify mistakes made while filling Challan 280?

If you have paid Challan 280 Online

Our article Challan 280: Payment of Income Tax discusses the basics of Payment of Income Tax. If you have paid Challan 280 online then only your Assessing Officer can correct the details. You can correct the details in the challan 280 by

• Submitting a letter to your Income Tax Assessing Officer in the specified format.
• You can send it through post, but it’s better if possible visit personally and submit the letter.
• Also get acknowledgment on another copy of the same letter

Assessing Officer

An Assessing Officer is a person who has jurisdiction(means: official power to make tax decisions and judgments for that assessee) to make assessment of an assessee, who is liable to tax under the Act. The designation may vary according to the volume of income/nature of trade as assigned by the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT Board), the department which deals with income tax. He may be an Income-tax Officer, Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Joint Commissioner or an Additional Commissioner. To know more about Assessing Officer one can read incometaxindia.gov.in:Central Board of Direct Taxes

To know your Assessing Officer , (which is an optional field to fill in our ITR forms also) Go to incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/e-Filing/Services/KnowYourJurisdictionLink.html and enter your PAN number. Our article How to find Jurisdictional Assessing Officer : Income Tax explains it in detail.

Format of Letter

You need to submit a letter to your Income Tax AO for correction in challan data along with the photocopy of the challan.Required Format for Correction of Section can be as follows
Date :……….

To,
The ITO
Ward ………….
……………..
……………..
Sub: Request for Correction and/or rectification of Assessment Year in challan.
Sir,

This is to inform you that while making payment of Self Assessment Tax of Rs……………..for the AY 2012-13 i wrongly mentioned the AY 2011-12 in ITNS 280.
I, therefore, request you to kindly make the necessary correction in your records. I am also enclosing a photocopy of the said challan.

I sincerely regret for my inadvertent mistake.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully