AIS review: reconcile what the department already sees

The income-tax department pre-populates a lot of your return from the AIS. When your filed figures and your AIS disagree, the system flags it. Most notices salaried taxpayers receive are not about fraud — they are about an interest income, a dividend, or a sale of shares that was simply left out because the taxpayer never looked at their AIS. A ten-minute review removes that risk.

• Salary — should match Form 16 Part B gross salary
• Interest — savings accounts, fixed deposits, recurring deposits, bonds
• Dividend income — often missed entirely by salaried filers
• Sale of securities and mutual funds — capital gains the department already sees
• TDS and TCS credits — make sure every credit you are owed is reflected
• SFT / high-value transactions — large deposits, card spends, property

1. 1Download your AIS and TIS from the Compliance / AIS section of incometax.gov.in.
2. 2Compare salary and TDS against your Form 16.
3. 3Tick off interest and dividend entries against your bank and broker statements.
4. 4Flag anything that is duplicated, belongs to someone else, or is simply wrong — and raise feedback.
5. 5Make sure every income in the AIS is reflected (correctly) in your ITR before you submit.

Upload your AIS or Form 16 and DrishtiTax helps you line up income, deductions and TDS so the gaps are obvious before you file. You get a structured view you can act on — and, if you want the look-forward too, a plan for next year. DrishtiTax analyses; you file on the portal or with your CA.