Incometax Department Steps taken for safeguarding taxpayers from Phishing email http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/report-phishing.aspx
Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes
PRESS RELEASE New Delhi, 5th February, 2016
Sub:– Steps taken by Income Tax Department for safeguarding taxpayers from Phishing email - regarding
The Income Tax Department has been at the forefront of using technology in implementing its – e-Governance initiatives. Most of its routine communication to taxpayers is through email and SMS. Therefore, the Department is very sensitive and alert to attempts made by fraudsters to spoof the Department’s identity to send phishing emails. To ensure that taxpayers are aware that the Department does not seek any confidential or financial information of the taxpayer over email, the below mentioned advisory has been prominently displayed on the national website:
“The Income Tax Department NEVER asks for your PIN numbers, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial accounts through e-mail.
The Income Tax Department appeals to taxpayers NOT to respond to such e-mails and NOT to share information relating to their credit card, bank and other financial accounts.”
The Do’s and Don’t’s to ensure that the gullible taxpayers do not inadvertently play into the hands of fraudsters are clearly mentioned on the website:
http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/report-phishing.aspx.
All taxpayer reports of phishing emails are forwarded to incident@cert-in.org.in which is a Government of India agency mandated to fight against such threats.
Further, the Department has implemented best practices such as SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) for its email domains. Use of these protocols enables the e-mail receiver domains such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc to determine whether or not a received e-mail is actually from the defined sender such as the Department and block phishing emails from reaching the taxpayer.
Taxpayers are advised to follow these simple checks if they do receive any email purporting to be from the Income Tax Department:
Check for the domain name carefully. Fake emails will have misspelt or incorrect sounding variants of websites of the Income Tax Department.
Check the message header – for example in Gmail it can be viewed by selecting the option ‘Show Original’.
- Do not open such emails in spam or junk folder and do not reply to such emails.
- Do not open any attachments. Attachments may contain malicious code.
- Do not click on any links. Even if you have clicked on links inadvertently in asuspicious e-mail or phishing website then do not enter confidential information like bank account, credit card details.
Do not cut and paste the link from the message into your browsers.
Forward the phishing emails to incident@cert-in.org.in with a request to examine and block the sender.
Use anti-virus software, anti spyware, and a firewall and keep them updated.
Income Tax Department is committed to encouraging taxpayers to engage with it electronically by following safe and best practices.
(Shefali Shah)
Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax (OSD)
Official Spokesperson, CBDT
- Assessment Year
- Tax Payer
- Male / Female / Senior Citizen
- Residential Status
- Income from Salary
- Income From House Property Show Details
- Capital Gains Show Details
- Income From Other Sources Show Details
- Profits and Gains of Business or Profession (enter profit only)
- Agricultural Income
Deductions
- Life Insurance premium paid Payment for annuity plan
- Contribution toward provident fund / PPF
- Investment in NSC (VIII issue) + Interest
- Contribution toward ULIP
- Contribution toward notified pension fund by MF/UTI
- Re-payment of housing loan etc
- Tuition fees paid for children
- 5 Years fixed deposit with PO or Schedule Bank
- Contribution toward NPF
- Employee's / Self-employed contribution toward NPS (up to 10%) (u/s 80CCD)
- Additional contribution towards NPS [u/s 80CCD(1B)]
- Employer's contribution toward NPS (up to 10%) (u/s 80CCD)
- Long-term infrastructure bonds (u/s 80CCF)
- Investment under equity saving scheme (u/s 80CCG)
- Deposit with Sukanya Samridhi Accounts
- Any other deductable (u/s 80C)
Total
- Medi-claim premium (u/s 80D)
- Actual payment towards medical treatment (u/s 80DDB)
- Donations (u/s 80G)
- Deduction for maintenance / medical treatment of dependent (u/s 80DD)
- Tick if 80DD is claimed
- Tick if severe disability
- Interest on loan for higher education (u/s 80E)
- Interest on loan taken for Residential House (u/s 80EE)
- Deduction in case of a person with disability (u/s 80U)
- Tick if 80U is claimed
- Tick if severe disability
- Interest on deposits in saving account (u/s 80TTA)
- Any other deductions
- Net Taxable Income
- Income Liable to Tax at Normal Rate ---
- Short Term Capital Gains (Covered u/s 111A) 15%
- Long Term Capital Gains (Charged to tax @ 20%) 20%
- Long Term Capital Gains (Charged to tax @ 10%) 10%
- Winnings from Lottery, Crossword Puzzles, etc) 30%
- Income Tax
- Surcharge
- Education Cess
- Secondary and higher education cess
- Total Tax Liability
- Due date of submission of return
- Actual date of submission of return/date of completion of assessment
- Relief other than relief u/s 87A
- TDS/TCS/MAT (AMT) Credit Utilized
- Detail of tax paid
- Date Amount
- Amount of interest u/s 234A
- Amount of interest u/s 234B
- Amount of interest u/s 234C
