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.

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Income Tax Department

New Initiatives

- More than 13,500 PAN application receipt Centers all over India
- More than 20 Lakh PAN applications processed per month
- Corporates get PAN and TAN allotment immediately after issue of Corporate Identity Number (CIN) by MCA
- Facility of payment of taxes through Net Banking/ATMs & at more than 17,000 branches of 31 designated banks
- Seamless e-Filing facility for uploading of Income Tax Returns anywhere and anytime around the clock
- About 2,00,00,000 returns filed till 31st Aug’ 15 in current financial year
- Automated ecosystem for processing of returns
- Capacity – Peak 5 Lakh returns per day
- Average processing time reduced from 12 to 14 months to 55 days
- Minimal human interface
- Refunds sent through Electronic and cheque mode (over 1,35,00,000 Refund sent in FY 14-15)
- Refund status (paid/unpaid) and the reasons for non-payment available online
- Online provision for viewing of tax credits and specified transactions to the taxpayer

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