The Central Information Commission (CIC) has recommended that the Income Tax Department should roll out a taxpayer-friendly procedure to fix TDS discrepancies.
This advice has been arrived after an order issued via Information Commissioner Vinod Kumar Tiwari while dealing with a complaint concerning TDS credit mismatches across several assessment years.
CIC said that taxpayers frequently run from “pillar to post” to resolve mismatches between Form 16 issued by the Drawing and Disbursing Officer (DDO) and Form 26AS maintained by the tax department.
The commission stated that authorities asked the taxpayer instead of keeping the responsible deductor liable. CIC to enhance the system recommends that the department initially ask for clarification from the deductor or DDO concerning whether the tax was accurately deducted and reported.
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If the problem continuous then the taxpayer as well as the deductor must be heard for a transparent resolution. But, in the current case, the commission did not determine any intentional refusal of information via the Central Public Information Officer and dismissed the complaint, remarking that responses were furnished as per the available records.
