The Indian IT Department sends notices to people, if they find any kind of fault or discrepancy in one’s Income Tax Return filing. The department, owing to its strict laws and rules, makes it a point to send legal notices to people as soon as they are found guilty of non filing of ITR, belated filing, erroneous filing of the return, non disclosure of income leading to tax evasion, mismatch of tax credit as reported in the ITR, avoidance of payment of Self Assessment Tax or just for the purpose of scrutiny on one’s account. These notices are sent to you via post or emails.
Let us peruse through the various kinds of notices issued by the IT Department and the ideal way to deal with them: