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Condonation of Delay Request

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You and the delay
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You and the delay

What is your full name?Needed

For example: Balwinder Singh

What is your PAN?Needed

For example: ABCDE1234F

What is your address?Needed

House / flat / plot no.

Street, sector or locality

City area and PIN code

To whom are you writing?Needed

For example: The Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Chandigarh

Which year does the delay relate to?Needed

For example: Assessment year 2025-26

What was late?Needed

my income tax returnmy revised or belated returnmy claim for a refundanother filing or claim that had a time limit

What was the last date allowed?Needed

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 31 July 2026

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For example: 14 October 2026

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REQUEST TO EXCUSE (CONDONE) A DELAY

Subject: Request to condone delay for __________. PAN: __________.

I, __________, of __________, ask you to excuse a delay. The matter in which the delay occurred is __________ for __________. The last date allowed was __________. It was filed, or will be filed, on __________.

I ask that the delay be excused and that the filing be accepted and processed as if made in time, and that any refund due be processed. I understand that the law decides who may excuse a delay, in which cases and by what time, and that the request may have to be made online or in a prescribed manner. If you are not the proper authority, I ask that this be passed to the proper authority, and I will make the request in the prescribed manner if I am told how.

This is my own letter written in my own words. The statements above are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

PERSONAL DATA NOTICE

This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Personal data in this document is collected only to ask the tax authority to excuse a delay and support the reasons given, communicate about that purpose, verify the information expressly supplied, and retain an evidentiary record.

The record will be held by __________ and may be shown only to the applicant, the tax authority addressed in it and the applicant's tax adviser or accountant, and to a statutory or tax authority where disclosure is required for the matter recorded here.

If the matter does not go ahead, or this document is withdrawn before it is used, the personal data will be retained for 90 days from that decision and then erased. If it is used, the record will be retained for 12 months after the matter ends and then erased, except for a record that a statute requires to be kept for a longer named period.

Data minimisation: this document deliberately does not require a full Aadhaar number, Aadhaar-card copy, passwords or unrelated identity material. Detailed KYC should remain in the separate KYC workflow; tax or payment identifiers are collected here only where the whole purpose of this document requires them.

SIGNATURE

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Applicant: __________
Place: ____________________
Date: ____________________

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