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As a salaried tax payer, you are issued a Form-16 by your employer. It's quite simple to prepare your Income Tax Return using the information in your Form-16. We have created an annotated image to explain the most relevant portions of your Form-16.

The Form-16 can be conceptually broken up into two parts. One part is employer provided information, the other part is, information that you (the employee) provide to your employer.

Understanding your Form 16

Employer provided Information

Taxable Salary

Your employer will provide key information such as Gross Salary, Perquisites, Various allowances and deductibles. From a tax perspective Field-6, Income Chargeable under the head 'Salaries' is relevant. This is your taxable salary and you have to report this amount to the Income Tax Department.

Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)

The other relevant information your employer will tell you is Tax deducted at source by them. This is field-18(a). This tax deducted is what you have paid to the Income Tax Department already. Note that the Income Tax Department provides Form-26 AS. This is a Tax Credit Statement. This statement tells you how much Tax was deposited on your behalf with the Income Tax department. The employer provided TDS information should match the Form 26AS provided by the I-T Department. It is strongly recommended that you check your Form-26AS before you file your tax return.

Information you already have

Deductions

Deductions under Section 80C, 80D, 80E, 80CCF, 80G, 80DD, 80U, etc are reported by you to your Employer. You may or may not have reported all deductions to your employer. That is no problem. You can still claim them in your Income Tax Return by filling up the relevant columns of the Income Tax Return. In general, it's a good idea to report your tax deductions to your employer to minimize the TDS by employer. That way you get to keep most of your paycheck during the year.

Income other than Salary If you receive any other Income, like interest from a bank account or rent, etc. You may have informed your employer about it. This is mentioned in Field-7.

Typically, people who have a housing loan report it to their employers. The Interest paid on the housing loan gets you a tax deduction.

In case you haven't declared your Income or Losses to your employer, there is no cause for worry. You can directly report your additional Income or Loss in the Income Tax Return.

How to view your Tax Credit Statement? (Form 26AS)

Income Tax Department facilitates a PAN holder to view its Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS) online. Form 26AS contains:

· Details of tax deducted on behalf of the taxpayer by deductors

· Details of tax collected on behalf of the taxpayer by collectors

· Advance tax/self assessment tax/regular assessment tax, etc. deposited by the taxpayers (PAN holders)

· Details of paid refund received during the financial year

· Details of the High value Transactions in respect of shares, mutual fund etc.

· The Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS) are generated wherein valid PAN has been reported in the TDS statements.

· Tax Credits Statement (Form 26AS) can be viewed/accessed through 3 ways :

· 1. View Tax Credit from https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in

Taxpayers who are registered at the above potal viz. https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in can view 26AS by clicking on 'View Tax Credit Statement (From 26AS)' in "My Account". The facility is available free of cost. For "New Registration", Click on 'Register' on the portal. The registration process is user-friendly and takes minimal time.

 Step-by-step tutorial on how to View your Form-26AS

· Go to https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.inand log-in with your account.

· In "My Account" tab, click on "View Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS)

2. You will have to fill details like your date of birth and the text in the image

· Confirm that you want to be re-directed to TIN-NSDL Website

· Click on View Form 26AS option

· Viola! The actual Form 26AS which contains all your Tax Credit

· View Tax Credit (Form 26AS) from bank site through net banking facility

The facility is available to a PAN holder having net banking account with any of authorized banks. View of Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS) is available only if the PAN is mapped to that particular account. The facility is available for free of cost. View Demo List of banks registered with NSDL for providing view of Tax Credit Statement (Form 26AS) are as below:

1. Axis Bank Limited

2. Bank of India

3. Bank of Maharashtra

4. Citibank N.A.

5. Corporation Bank

6. ICICI Bank Limited

7. IDBI Bank Limited

8. Indian Overseas Bank

9. Indian Bank

10. Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited

11. Oriental Bank of Commerce

12. State Bank of India

13. State Bank of Mysore

14. State Bank of Travancore

15. The Federal Bank Limited

16. UCO Bank

17. Union Bank of India

18. Bank of Baroda

19. Karnataka Bank

20. The Saraswat Co-operative Bank Limited

21. City Union Bank Limited

22. State Bank of Patiala

3. View Tax Credit (Form 26AS) from TIN website

The facility is available to PANs that are registered with Tax Information Network for view of 26AS statement. The PAN holder has to fill up an online Registration form for such purpose. Thereafter, verification of PAN holder's identity is done by the TIN-Facilitation Centre personnel either at PAN holder's address or at the TIN-facilitation center that has been chosen by the PAN holder. The verification involves a cost at prescribed rates. Once authorised, the PAN holder can view Tax Credit Statement online.

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