How to Deposit Advance Tax
How to Deposit Advance Tax
The procedure to deposit advance tax is similar to income tax. Advance tax is itself a income tax. We call it advance tax as we deposit it advance before due date of income tax. So the procedure is the same as income tax. You can deposit advance tax offline or online.
Offline Procedure to Deposit Advance Tax
You have to fill up challan No.280 and deposit advance tax installment along with Challan No.280 in any authorized bank branch.
You should write your name in full, complete address, permanent account number, assessment year, assessing officer’s ward or circle where the assesse is assessed or assessable and the amount of tax and surcharge, if any, separately and properly.
Online Procedure to Deposit Advance Tax
All asesseess may deposit advance tax electronically. There are no restrictions for any assesse for depositing online advance tax. But for some assesse online deposit of advance tax is mandatory like companies, assesses whose accounts audited u/s 44AB.
You can deposit advance tax online by internet banking.You can deposit advance tax throught your own account or you can use another bank account. But you have to fill challan no. 280 online clearly by stating your own name, address, PAN and other details properly.
Date of Payment/Relisation of Advance Tax
Date of payment of tax is important not only for the purpose of reckoning the payment towards the relevant advance tax installment, but also for the purpose of computing interest for delay, if any. If the payment is made by a cheque along with the challan into the Government treasury or the bankers authorized to collect Government receipts, and if the cheque is not dishonored later, it shall be deemed that payment has been made on the date the cheque was so tendered.
