What are the reasons of refund request getting rejected?

Following are common reason for rejection of refund request:

• There should be no outstanding demand / manual demand raised by Assessing Officer against TAN or PAN of the deductor.

• There is any challan correction for which refund request raised.

• Request for refund will be rejected due to challan correction.

• If Form 26B is submitted after the expiry of 14 days.

• Request will be rejected by Assessing Officer.

• In case request is more than 1 Lac, it should be approved by Additional Commissioner. It can be rejected by Additional Commissioner..

• Request will be rejected due to invalid bank details or invalid address details.

• Request will be rejected due to reduction in challan available balance.

• Request will be rejected due to challan force matching by Assessing Officer in progress.