How to Correct Challan 280 / If you have paid Challan 280 in Physical form or Offline at Bank

If you have paid Challan 280 in physical form by going to bank, bank can information if requested is submitted within a time frame or period based on information that needs to be updated. After lapse of time frame, request can be made to the Assessing Officer. The fields that can be corrected by the Taxpayer through Bank are given below:

Sl. No.	Type of Correction on Challan	Period for correction request (in days)
1	PAN/TAN	Within 7 days from challan deposit date
2	Assessment Year	Within 7 days from challan deposit date
3	Total Amount	Within 7 days from challan deposit date
4	Major Head	Within 3 months from challan deposit date
5	Minor Head	Within 3 months from challan deposit date
6	Nature of Payment	Within 3 months from challan deposit date

Procedure for requesting correction

• A separate request letter is to be submitted for each challan
• The tax-payer has to submit the request form for correction (in duplicate) to the concerned bank branch.
• The tax-payer has to attach copy of original challan counterfoil.
• In case of correction desired for challans in Form 280, 282, 283, the copy of PAN card is required to be attached.
• In case of correction desired for payments made by a tax-payer (other than an individual), the original authorization with seal of the non-individual taxpayer is required to be attached with the request form.
• The time window for correction by the bank is 7 days from the date of receipt of correction request from the tax-payer.

Format of letter to be submitted to bank is shown in image below (Click on Image to enlarge), you can check from ChallanCorrectionMechanism(pdf)

Letter to Bank for Challan Correction