4. How to Track the Tax Refund Process?

To track your Income Tax Refund online, you can follow these four steps

1) Go to the website tin.tin.nsdl.com/oltas/refundstatuslogin.html

2) Enter your PAN No

3) Choose the Assessment Year

4) Click on the Submit button

In case of doubts you can email your tax refund related query to itro@sbi.co.in or refunds@incometaxindia.gov.in

5. How to Deal with Tax Refund Delay

To avoid further delay in the refund, you must visit the tax office, follow up with them and enquire the causes for delay. To accelerate the process you can also file a letter to the concerned assessing officer ('AO') and provide an explanation for the refund along with the necessary documents.

"However, if no action is taken by the assessing officer, the taxpayer can move up the hierarchy and write to the jurisdictional chief commissioner with copies of previous letter/s written to the assessing officer and with a copy of the tax return filed," adds Vineet Agarwal as quoted by ET Bureau.