OLTAS: Upload Pending Tax Challans by May 28, 2005
No longer current — withdrawn, no replacement on file yet
Source: Reserve Bank of India · RBI/2004-05/455 · issued 05 May 2005 · ~2 min read
Quick answerBanks must re-check and upload all OLTAS challans from June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005 that were missed earlier. Nodal branches can get physical copies from ZAOs and use TIN facility. Complete by May 28, 2005 and send a certificate by May 31, 2005.
What changed
RBI has directed banks to conduct a fresh exercise to identify and upload any challans from June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005 that were not uploaded to TIN under OLTAS. The Principal Chief Controller of Accounts, CBDT has instructed Zonal Accounting Offices to provide physical challan copies to banks' nodal branches. NSDL has also enabled a TIN facility to view and upload previous period challan data.
What it means for you
Banks must ensure no tax challan from the specified period remains un-uploaded, as this affects tax credit reporting. Nodal branches need to coordinate with ZAOs and use TIN tools to complete the upload. Double counting must be avoided since fund settlement has already occurred. A compliance certificate is required by May 31, 2005.
Historical instruction — do not use for current compliance. This is what was required at the time; it no longer reflects current RBI requirements. If no replacement rule is linked above, that only means none is recorded on our register yet — it does not prove no later applicable rule exists. Confirm on the official RBI source below.
What banks were required to do at the time
Instruct nodal branches to identify all OLTAS challans from June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005 that are not yet uploaded to TIN.
Coordinate with Zonal Accounting Offices to obtain physical challan copies if needed.
Upload all identified challans using the TIN facility, ensuring the Realization Date or Nodal Branch Scroll Date is on or before March 31, 2005.
Complete the upload exercise by May 28, 2005 and send a compliance certificate to the Director of Income Tax (Systems) by May 31, 2005, with a copy to RBI.
Take care to avoid double counting since fund settlement for these challans has already happened.
Who it affects
State Bank of India and its Associates, All Public Sector Banks, HDFC Bank Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd., UTI Bank Ltd., IDBI Ltd., Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd., Nodal Officers of banks handling OLTAS
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What is the deadline for uploading the pending challans?
The exercise must be completed by May 28, 2005, and the compliance certificate must be sent by May 31, 2005.
How can banks get the physical challan copies?
The Principal Chief Controller of Accounts, CBDT has instructed Zonal Accounting Offices to provide physical challan copies to banks' nodal branches.
What should banks do to avoid double counting?
Since fund settlement for these challans has already taken place, banks must carefully ensure that the same challan is not uploaded again.
📜 Read the original circular — full text as issued by RBI
RBI/2004-05/455
DGBA.GAD.No.H 5723 /42.01.037/2004-05
May 5, 2005
The Chairman and Managing Director/ Managing Director
State Bank of India and its Associates/
All Public Sector Banks/ HDFC Bank Ltd./ICICI Bank Ltd./UTI Bank Ltd./
IDBI Ltd./Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd.
Dear Sir,
OLTAS – Uploading of challan data pertaining to previous period (June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005)
In the meeting of Nodal Officers convened by Directorate of Income Tax (Systems), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in New Delhi on December 13, 2004, it was decided that every bank should identify the challans which remained to be uploaded to Tax Information Network (TIN) under OLTAS. It is presumed that the ‘Nodal Officer’ nominated by you had already initiated action in this regard. It has now been decided that banks should once again carry out such an exercise to ensure that no challan accepted during the period from June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005 remained to be uploaded to TIN. To enable your Nodal Branches to do so now, the Principal Chief Controller of Accounts, CBDT has issued instructions to all Zonal Accounting Offices (ZAOs) to make available the physical challan copies to banks’ Nodal Branches vide Office Memorandum No. 101/2004-05/Pr.CCA/OLTAS/83-1431 dated April 27, 2005. Similarly, NSDL has also provided facility in TIN to view and upload previous period challan data. Your Nodal Branches may, therefore, identify and upload all such challans which have not been uploaded to TIN during the period June 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005 . While doing so, care may be taken to ensure that the ‘Realization Date’/‘Nodal Branch Scroll Date’ should be equal or less than March 31, 2005 .
2. This exercise may please be completed by May 28, 2005 . On completion of the work by all Nodal Branches of your bank, a certificate to this effect may be sent to Shri S.S. Khan, Director of Income Tax (Systems), Directorate of Income Tax (Systems), E-2, ARA Centre, Jhandewalan Extension, New Delhi – 110 055, positively by May 31, 2005 , under advice to us.
3. Since fund settlement on such non-uploaded challans must have already taken place, care may please be exercised to eliminate double counting.
Please arrange accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/-
(Girish Kallianpur)
Dy. General Manager
Reproduced for reference with acknowledgment — Source: Reserve Bank of India · RBI/2004-05/455 · issued 05 May 2005. The plain-English explanation above is BankPulse’s own independent summary.
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