When filing your yearly income tax returns, it is important to ensure that you provide details of all your income, deductions and investments. If the Income Tax Department finds any mismatch of information or mistakes in your tax return, it will send you a notice u/s 139(9).
If your return is found defective, then I-T department will send you a defective return notice under section 139(9) of the Income Tax Act. You will get 15 days of time from the date of receiving the notice to rectify the defect in your return.
The detailed process to submit the Response to defective notice is as below:
Step 1: Go to Income tax portal and Login to the same
Step 2: Now click on “e-File” tab and select the option “e-File in response to notice under section 139(9)”.
Step 3: On successful validation if there is any defective notice raised by either CPC/AO, the below screen will be displayed, select submit for the concerned defective return for which you are going to submit a response.
Step 4: For defective notice raised by CPC, the below screen will be displayed:
Step 6: Now if you agree with the effect then just fill your Income Tax Return by rectifying the defect by selecting Return u/s 139(9) and mention date of original return, acknowledgement number, Notice number and Notice date. Once you do that then generate its xml file and upload it in the above screen. After that you’ll see the below screen:
