Restriction on issuance of manual refunds by assessing officer

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..... suing orders on the system from AY 2011-12 onwards. The CBDT has repeatedly instructed that in all cases orders must be passed on the system. This has also been stressed in the Central Action Plan for each year. Further, all charges including LTUs and Central Charges are now covered by Refund Banker scheme. However, instances continue to come to the notice of the CBDT where the Assessing Officers .....

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..... return II PAN is not available III Name in PAN database does not match with name in Return of Income IV Return with one PAN issued to two different entities OR someone filing a return quoting the PAN of original holder and this wrong return is processed first in AST/CPC/TMS, therefore .....

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..... e AST system and therefore in such cases refund cannot be issued through Refund Banker. As discussed in para 2 above, from AY 2011-12 onwards, most orders u/s 143(1) and subsequent orders are already on AST system. 6. It is therefore decided by the CBDT that henceforth no manual refund should be issued in a case which has been processed on AST. In cases referred to in paras 4 5 or in exceptio .....

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..... ed to mandatorily fill these details before issuance of any manual refund from the date of issue of this instruction. Range Heads are advised to ensure that the Assessing Officers duly fill all the details for such manual refunds as provided in the functionality before issuance of any such manual refund. The path of this functionality is as under: ITD AST Others Manual Refund Details .....

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..... can also be addressed to Shri Ashish Abrol, Addl.DIT(S)-3(1)(09013850443), [email protected] 10. This issues with the approval of Chairperson, CBDT. [F.NO.DGIT(S)/DIT(S)-3/AST/MANUAL REFUNDS/85-2015-16] - Circular - Trade Notice - Public Notice - Instructions - Office orders Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - T .....

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