You can check your Form 26AS only if your PAN number is linked to that particular bank account. The facility to check the tax credit statement is available to a PAN holder having a net banking account with any authorised bank. You can view Form 26AS through the net banking facility of your bank. How to view Form 26AS? You can view Form 26AS on the TRACES (TDS Reconciliation Analysis and Correction Enabling System) portal and download it. Also Read: How to file income tax return after due date?

The tax credit statement also verifies that different entities have paid taxes on behalf of you and deposited in the government account. Any mismatch or discrepancy between your Form 26AS and the return filed by you may result in an inquiry. This will help in minimising the chances of errors such as omissions while filing the income tax return. Taxpayers can cross-check their actual transactions with the transactions reported in their Form 26AS before filing their ITR. A Form 26AS includes all tax-related information of a taxpayer such as tax collected at source (TCS), tax deducted at source (TDS), advance payment of tax by the assessee, self-assessment tax payments, details about income tax refunds (ITR), and the details of tax deducted on the sale of immovable property or asset, among other details.

It is an integrated annual statement released for individual taxpayers and associated with their Permanent Account Number (PAN).

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