How to Pay Advance TAX through income tax Portal?

How to Pay Advance TAX through income tax Portal?

On the TIN-NSDL portal, the income tax payment can be made online. Tax is one of the main ways the government makes money and uses the same for public welfare.

However, as the Direct Tax TIN 2.0 services have been temporarily disabled by ITD, thus for the time being customers will have to initiate all Direct Tax payment form Income tax portal.

Previously the online tax payments were done through the NSDL portal, now, which has been shifted to Income Tax Portal. Through the e-pay tax option now one can pay tax online via UPI and credit card also, which weren’t there on the nsdl tax payment options. Shortly, all the banks available on the NSDL portal will be migrated to Income Tax Portal.
Users who can pay taxes through Income Tax Portal include all taxpayers, tax deductors/collectors, representative assessees, and type 1 and type 2 ERI / CA.

Let’s go through to see how to remit the Direct taxes through Income Tax portal. Although we can login to tax portal by PAN Linked bank account it is advisable to directly login to Income tax website to create challan and make payment. Login to your account on https://www.incometax.gov.in/

Step : 1 Under Menu Bar select e-file and below that scroll to e-Pay Tax You will be directed to the following screen:



Step : 2 Then click on New Payment, following tiles are displayed in the Income tax portal. Select the tile relevant for your tax payment and click on proceed:



Step : 3 Let us take here the example of Income Tax, and select the relevant Assessment year and type of payment and click continue.


Step : 4 Enter amount of tax, surcharge, Cess etc. and you can save draft or click on continue.


Step : 5 Following screen allows to make payments in any of the modes as below:
(i) Net Banking
(ii) Debit Card
(iii) Over the Counter
(iv) NEFT/RTGS
(v) Payment Gateway for banks. 



Step : 6 you can pay instantly by logging to bank or clicking on pay later.



Step : 7 If you have selected Pay later challan will be available in Generated Challans Tab with a CRN Number, (this is similar to GST Payment Challan number which is used by banks to accept your payment at bank counters and give credit to particular challan generated on income tax portal)

Challan with CRN Number only will be accepted at Bank counters.


 Step : 8 Further on clicking on three dots further actions as below are displayed.
Pay, Copy, View details.


Step : 9 You can click on Pay and proceed to make payment through bank portal after accepting terms and conditions. After Payment is made challan is available for download or print under Payment History.


Note:  After successful payment, you will receive a confirmation e-Mail and an SMS on the e-Mail ID and Mobile number registered with the e-Filing portal. Once the payment is successful, Challan Receipt may be downloaded for future references. The details of payment and Challan Receipt are also available under Payment History Tab on the e-Pay Tax page post-login.


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