New option enabled for Online Income Tax Challan Correction – correct your mistakes

If you made mistake while E-pay Tax then you can correct it online, earlier these correction cannot be possible online and you have to visit your assessing officer offline to make corrections in case of mistakes while payment of income tax online, Now your problem is solved as online challan correction option is enabled on Income Tax portal.

As on 18 August 2023, Income tax portal launched new option to correct mistakes in payment of Income Tax for income tax paid from A.Y. 2020-21 onwards, below mistakes can be corrected online:

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Now Let’s understand first how to pay Income Tax and then we will discuss step by step process of online challan correction

Steps to pay Income Tax Online

To pay income tax online: you have to login to www.incometax.gov.in

after login click on e pay tax and click on new payment

Then select Income Tax and proceed

Then Select Assessment year and Minor Head

After that click on Continue, select your payment option and after that you can see your Challan Details (CRN number), Assessment Year, Financial year, Major head and Minor Head, Tax break up and method of payment which you selected

After successful payment you will get your Challan and challan details as below, you can download your challan also

Steps to correct Income Tax challan

To pay income tax online: you have to login to www.incometax.gov.in

after login click on Challan Correction

Then Click on Create Challan Correction Request

you can see that you have got correction options for challans pertaining to AY 2020-21 onwards

Select the option which you want to correct and click on continue

Then select either Assessment year or CIN number whatever is available with you and click on continue

If no unconsumed challan found than you will get the below message

In case you have unconsumed challan Which due to mistake you were not able to use, than you can select that challan and click on continue

Now If you want to change Assessment year, then correct right Assessment year under updated challan details

If you want to correct Tax applicable (Major Head) – Select from drop down and continue

If you want to correct Type of Payment (Minor Head) – Select from drop down and continue

After than click on continue and Submit and your challan correction will be processed

Watch below video to know how to pay Income Tax

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