Whenever you have any Income Tax issues, then you have to contact your Jurisdictional Assessing Offer or AO. How to find Income Tax Assessing Officer or AO? Also, how to contact him?
Assessing Officer or AO is an individual officer appointed by Income Tax Department. An assessing Officer or AO is a person who has jurisdiction to make an assessment of an assessee or tax payer, who is liable to tax under the Act. His designation may vary according to the volume of income or nature of trade as assigned by the Board. He may be called as an Income-Tax Officer or Assistant Commissioner of Income-Tax or Deputy Commissioner of Income-Tax or Joint Commissioner of Income-Tax or Additional Commissioner of Income-Tax.
Now you may know the importance of knowing your Assessing Officer or AO. He has jurisdiction over assessees in a specific geographical area of your city, town, or over a specific class of assessees. He is the one who allots you the PAN card. Also, it is his responsibility to ensure timely collection of tax and issue refunds from all tax payers.
He randomly selects few cases and scrutinizes the tax filed status. If he found anything wrong, then he issues the notice. An AO can impose and waive penalties, as per her discretion. Also, it is his responsibility to address and resolve the grievances of tax payer within his jurisdictional area.
When you file the IT Return, then IT department will either accept it or issue the tax demand notice or some clarifications from you. If you agree and pay the additional tax demanded, then the issue will resolve there itself.
However, you have some disputes against the notice or to communicate your clarification to IT Department, then you have to contact the AO.
Usually, your issues will be replied within 30 days. However, if you not receive any reply or not satisfied with AO response, then you can approach to the higher level officer like the chief commissioner of income tax with copies of your previous communications with the AO.
If the commissioner of income tax still does not reply to your complaint within 30 days or if the complaint is not addressed to as per your satisfaction, then you can escalate the issue to the income tax ombudsman of your region. You can find the details of your area Income Tax Ombudsman HERE. If you are still not satisfied, you can also approach the court.
There are two ways one can find Income Tax Assessing Officer or AO. One is by logging to your account and another without login. Whatever may be the process, you will get the details like Area Code, AO Type, Range Code, AO Number, Jurisdiction, Building Name, Email Id, and Status.
Do remember that to speak to your income tax assessing officer you can call income tax helpline number and they will provide you the contact no.
You can find Income Tax Assessing Officer or AO details without login now. The steps are as below.
# Step 1–
Visit e-Filing Portal Home Page. Then click on the AO link of “Know Your PAN|TAN|A.O“.
# Step 2-Enter your PAN number and the registered mobile number and click on “Submit” tab.
# Step 3–
Next, IT Department will send you PIN to your registered mobile number. You have to enter the same as below.
# Step 4–
Then you will see your AO details as below.
# Step 1-Visit the eFiling portal and login to your account.
# Step 2– Next step is to click on Profile Settings and under the drop down menu, select “My Profile”.
# Step 3-Now under PAN details you will find Income Tax Assessing Officer or AO.
Hope this information may be helpful for all.
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Sir,
i got a demand notice for 2018-19 year and i have raised a concern about it and produced all the necessary documents in grievance and sent the email to AO to validate and let me know what is the next action to cancel the demand but i am not getting any response from AO. so please help and guide me how to proceed on this issue.
Regards,
Mafa.
Dear Mafa,
If you responded to notice, then better to wait.
Dear sir, I have filed my itr in Dec 20 and it is already processed. but by mistake I made some mistakes in the itr. I put total income more than actual for which I also paid more tax. Is it possible to get the refund now. For that what should I do or I need to contact my AO.
Dear Meenakshi,
You can revise it now.
Dear Sir ,
I'm waiting for my refund reissue notification failure since 1 month so that i can raise for refund reissue with the correct bank account details which has been pre validate . Can you please let me know who to reach . as its been 1 month but still no process
I called income tax customer care team and getting response that i have to just wait .
Dear Sushil,
Better to wait.
Dear sir,
I have missed filing ITR for AY2015-16 and I am not able to e-file it. during FY2014-15 I switched to another company(in december) and now I realized that the tax is not properly decuted for that year. How can I proceed to pay tax due as well as file ITR.
Dear sir I have field my income tax by August 2019 as per current status is assessing officer has not sent this refund to refund Banker. Please contact your Assessing Officer and last week I have received an intimation notice to pay Rs32422 in that tds and tcs amount is not addded
Dear Vin,
Approach your AO.
Sir, I have paid an advance tax of Rs.7315 and filed my IT returns. After I got an intimation from the IT department I have filed a revised return (after adjustments) on 14/11/2019. As per the adjustments the net tax payable was was Rs.620/- and I paid it on the same day by online payment (through the link Pay Tax).
Now they have sent another intimation letter along with a challan to pay Rs.620 again. I have already paid the said amount, what should I do now? I have no other documents except my bank statement to show that this amount is debited from account (it shows debit to NSDL Tax Debit-507731000000181). Can I upload the bank statement in spite of the challan to prove that I have already made the payment demanded by them?
Please guide me,
Thank you.
Dear Preethi,
Better to wait or reply with the Bank Statement transaction image.
Dear Sir,
I have filed my income tax by August 2019, as per current status it is e-verified but till i am not getting by refund. please guide when i will get my refund or what should i have to do further for getting refund.
Dear sir I have field our income tax by July 2019 as per current status is assiment officer is not send to banker so please sunset me
Dear Sunder,
Wait or approach AO.
Dear Samir,
Refer my post "Income Tax Refund Status AY 2019-20 – How to check online?".
I have obtained details of AO but email id field is blank and no email id is provided. Now how can I contact. Pls help.
Dear Chl,
Call to IT Dept and find the contact details of a particular AO.
HOW TO CONTACT THE AO, IS THERE ANY MAIL ID OR PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE SIR?
Dear Arunkumar,
You can easily find AO email id.
Hi Sir,
I Have filed my ITR on 28-06-2019 and e-verified successfully on the same day. Still i have not received my refund. Shall i contact to AO or wait.
Dear Atal,
Refer my post "Income Tax Refund Status AY 2019-20 – How to check online?".