The Income Tax Department NEVER asks for your PIN numbers, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial accounts through e-mail.

The Income Tax Department appeals to taxpayers NOT to respond to such e-mails and NOT to share information relating to their credit card, bank and other financial accounts.

The Taxpayer can submit the response online to the outstanding demand by either choosing to ‘Agree’ or ‘Disagree’ with the demand.

Perform the following steps for Responding to the Outstanding Demand.

Logon to ‘e-Filing’ Portal https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/
Go to the ‘Pending Actions’ menu and Click ‘Response to Outstanding Demand’
Click on 'Submit Response' button.
Select any one option
- o Demand is correct
- o Disagree with demand (Either in Full or Part)
If option “Demand is correct” is selected, then perform the following step.
- If option (a) Not paid yet, then make the payment
- If option (b) Yes, already paid challan has CIN, then provide challan details and attach challan in pdf format.
If option “Disagree with demand (Either in Full or Part)” is selected then add Reasons for disagreeing with demand and submit the response.

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