Income Tax: All About TIN (Tax Information Network)
TIN has two key sub-systems:
- Electronic Return Acceptance and Consolidation System (ERACS) which consists of an infrastructure for interface with the taxpayers (a nation wide network of TIN-Facilitation Centres i.e. TIN-FC) and a web-based utility for upload of electronic returns of Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) & Tax Collection at Source (TCS) and Annual Information Return (AIR) to the central system of TIN.
- Online Tax Accounting System (OLTAS) for daily upload to the central system, the details of tax deposited in various tax collecting branches across the country.
Services through TIN-FC
Through its network of TIN-Facilitation centres all over the country, TIN offers the following services:
Through its network of TIN-Facilitation centres all over the country, TIN offers the following services:
- Acceptance of electronic and physical TDS/TCS Returns.
- Processing of new PAN and PAN change request applications.
- Processing of new TAN and TAN change request applications.
- Acceptance of AIR
- Acceptance of Form 24G statement.
Online Services
- TIN provides the following Online Services through this website:
Quarterly Statement Status
- Facility for deductors to verify status of e-TDS/TCS statements submitted to TIN-FC or online at this website by providing TAN and respective Provisional Receipt Number (PRN).
Acceptance of Returns/Statements
- Facility to submit TDS/TCS statements and related correction statements through internet.
- Facility to submit Annual Information Returns (AIR) and related supplementary returns through internet.
e-tax Payment
- Facility to pay tax online, wherein the taxpayer can fill up and submit the challan through Internet. The tax payer has to necessarily have a bank account with net banking facility in any of the stipulated banks.
OLTAS Challan Status Enquiry
- Facility for tax payers to enquire online about the status of challans deposited in banks.
PAN
- Facility to apply for PAN online
- Reprint of PAN card with existing/revised details
- Status enquiry
TAN
- Facility to apply for TAN online
- Reprint of TAN allotment letter with existing/revised details
- Status enquiry
e-RI
- Facility to register as an e-Return Intermediary (e-RI). (An e-RI is an entity authorised by ITD to electronically file income tax returns on behalf of tax payers.)
- Status enquiry.
Online PAN Verification
- Facility to verify PANs online to authorized entities (Entities who are approved by ITD can verify PANs online).
- Status enquiry.
Form 24G
- Receive Form 24G statements from Account Offices (AO/PAO/DTO) and upload them to the TIN central system
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