Have you not received your tax refund yet, know what to do

Income Tax Department recently announced that it has transferred refunds worth Rs 1.67 lakh crores to bank accounts of over 1.87 crore taxpayers till February 7, 2022. The I-T Department made the anniuncement through a post on the micro-blogging platform Twitter.

The I-T Department also explained that out of the total Rs 1.67 lakh crores tax refunds, Rs 59,949 crores have been refunded for personal income tax and Rs 1,07,099 crores have been refunded for corporate tax.

The tweet read, “CBDT issues refunds of over Rs. 1,67,048 crore to more than 1.87 crore taxpayers from 1st Apr,2021 to 7th February, 2022. Income tax refunds of Rs. 59,949 crore have been issued in 1,85,65,723cases & corporate tax refunds of Rs. 1,07,099 crore have been issued in 2,28,100 cases.” It continued, “This includes 1.48 crore refunds of AY 2021-22 amounting to Rs. 28,704.38 crore.

Here is the tweet:

CBDT issues refunds of over Rs. 1,67,048 crore to more than 1.87 crore taxpayers from 1st Apr,2021 to 7th February,2022. Income tax refunds of Rs. 59,949crore have been issued in 1,85,65,723cases &corporate tax refunds of Rs. 1,07,099crore have been issued in 2,28,100cases(1/2)

— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) February 9, 2022

You can check if you have received the tax refunds by the following way.

How To Check Income Tax Refund Status?

The taxpayers can follow the below-mentioned steps to check the refund status

Step-1: Visit the www.incometax.gov.in site.

Step-2: Log into the site using the registered User ID and Password.

Step-3: Click on ‘e-Filing’ option.

Step-4: Then click on the ‘Income Tax Returns’.

Step-5: Click on ‘View File Return’.

Step-6: The details of the ITR will be displayed on the screen.

What To Do In Case Of Non-Transfer Of IT Funds?

• In case, tax payers have not received the IT refunds, they can lodge complaints on incometax.gov.in.
• Or the taxpayers can also call the toll-free number 1800-103-4455 issued by the IT- Department between 8 AM and 8 PM on weekdays to file the complaint.
• Apart from this, the complaint can also be filed on I-T Department’s e-filing portal.

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