By Admin 
- The reassessment notice was sent after the death of the person.
Income Tax Notice: Every information related to income tax is very important for a taxpayer. But imagine, if a person dies in your house and even then notices related to bank or income tax start coming to your house in the name of that person, then what will you do in such a situation? Allahabad High Court has given an important decision on this matter. During the hearing of a case, the court said that if a person dies then a notice of income tax reassessment cannot be issued in his name.
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What is the whole matter?
Actually, a notice of re-assessment was sent to a person by the Income Tax Department in March 2025, whereas that person had already died in January 2024. It is being told that this matter was related to buying a flat in Lucknow.
On this, the Income Tax Department suspected that some money was paid while purchasing the flat, but its account was not given. Later, when the department came to know about the death of the person, tax action was taken forward in the name of his wife. When the matter reached Allahabad High Court, the court gave its verdict during the hearing.
What did the court say on this matter?
On this matter, the High Court said that when a person has already died, then issuing income tax reassessment notice in his name is wrong in the eyes of law. The court said that if tax related action has to be taken after the death of a person, then the notice should be issued in the name of the legal heir. Along with this, the court said that if the action had been started while the person was alive, then the action can be taken forward in the name of the legal heir.
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What to do if you get such a notice?
- If an income tax notice comes to your house of a person who has already died, then do not ignore it.
- For this, first of all you inform the department about the death certificate.
- If necessary, you can take necessary advice related to this from a tax lawyer or chartered accountant.
- This information is especially important for those people in whose family someone has died recently.
- Also those who are handling the tax related matters of a deceased person.