Got income tax demand notice due to errors in Form 26AS, AIS like TCS employees? How taxpayers can respond to it

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employees received income tax notices due to a mismatch between the TDS credit in their Form 26AS, Annual Information Statement (AIS) and the amount they claimed while filing their income tax return (ITR).

In the case of TCS employees, the company has proactively tried to resolve the tax issues faced by their employees. TCS has communicated to its employees that the tax authorities would be reprocessing their ITRs after which the problem of mismatch of TDS credit would be resolved.
It may happen that you are facing such a scenario where you have also received a tax demand notice from the income tax department due to a mismatch in the TDS amount shown in Form 26AS, AIS, and Part A of Form 16. Here is what you can do if you have got the tax demand notice from the tax department due to mismatch of TDS with Form 26AS and AIS.

Get errors in Form 26AS, AIS corrected

If the Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) amount shown in your Form 26 AS and AIS does not match the amount shown in Part A of Form 16, then one must get the TDS amount corrected in Form 26AS and AIS. Form 16 is the TDS certificate which would have been issued to you by your employer to certify the amount of tax deducted from your salary. According to chartered accountants, a taxpayer can only claim the amount of TDS which is reflected in Form 26AS. If this amount is less than what is shown in Part A of Form 16, then one must contact the tax deductor to correct it in the TDS return filed by the deductor so that it can be corrected in