Wrong Entry in Your AIS? How to Submit Feedback So It Flows Into TIS and Pre-Fills Your Return

Your Annual Information Statement (AIS) is the income-tax department's running ledger of what banks, mutual funds, registrars and employers have reported about you under Section 285BB of the Income-tax Act, 1961. When one line in that ledger is wrong, the error does not stay quietly in the AIS - it flows into your Taxpayer Information Summary (TIS) and then into the pre-filled figures of your return, where it can inflate your tax or trigger a mismatch notice months later. This Q&A walks through exactly how to submit feedback on a wrong AIS entry so the correction reaches TIS and your pre-fill, using the process the department documents in its AIS FAQ on incometax.gov.in.

The Scenario

Picture Meera, a salaried product manager with a gross salary of Rs 14,00,000 for FY 2025-26 (assessment year 2026-27). When she opens her AIS on the Compliance Portal in June 2026, three Part B entries look off: her savings-bank interest of Rs 48,000 from one bank appears twice (Rs 96,000 in total), and a mutual-fund redemption her broker reported as Rs 6,20,000 was actually Rs 6,02,000 on her own contract note dated 12 February 2026.

If Meera files her return without acting, the pre-fill will carry the inflated Rs 96,000 interest and the wrong Rs 6,20,000 sale value, because the return draft is built from TIS, which is in turn derived from AIS. Leaving a phantom Rs 48,000 of interest in a 15% marginal slab would cost her roughly Rs 7,488 in tax she does not owe (Rs 48,000 x 15.6% inclusive of 4% cess). The fix is not to silently override the pre-fill - it is to submit transaction-level feedback so the system itself revises the figure and leaves an audit trail.

The AIS has two parts. Part A holds your identity data - PAN, masked Aadhaar, name, date of birth, mobile, email and address. Part B holds the financial information that actually affects your tax: TDS and TCS, Statement of Financial Transactions (SFT) reported by banks and registrars, payment of taxes, demand and refund, and other information. Feedback is submitted only against Part B information items, because those are the values that feed your computation. You can confirm how your tax has been deducted in our TDS glossary entry and cross-check the older consolidated view in Form 26AS.

Statutory Answer

The AIS is not an informal convenience - it rests on statute. Section 285BB of the Income-tax Act, 1961, inserted by the Finance Act 2020 with effect from 1 June 2020, requires the prescribed income-tax authority to upload in the taxpayer's registered account an annual information statement in the prescribed form and manner. The mechanics - what information appears, and the taxpayer's right to respond - are set out in Rule 114-I of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. You can read the bare provision on indiacode.nic.in and the operational detail in the department's AIS FAQ on incometax.gov.in.

Crucially, the law does not treat the reported figure as final. The department's AIS FAQ confirms that a taxpayer may submit feedback on each information item, that the feedback is captured against the source-reported value, and that the modified value is then displayed in brackets alongside the original. This is the statutory hook that lets you correct a wrong entry without writing to the bank or filing a grievance first. There is no fee for submitting feedback, and you are not admitting anything by disputing a figure - the department itself describes feedback as the designed mechanism for accuracy, not an exceptional step.

When you submit feedback, the system records both the reported value and your response, then recomputes a "derived value" in TIS. Per the AIS FAQ, accepted or source-confirmed values update the TIS, and TIS is the statement used to pre-fill the return. So the chain runs in one direction: AIS feedback drives the TIS derived value, and the TIS derived value drives the pre-fill. Understanding that chain is the whole point - you do not edit the pre-fill directly; you correct the source statement and let the correction propagate.

The feedback options are standardised. The table below maps the option to when it applies, based on the categories documented in the AIS FAQ on incometax.gov.in.

Worked Resolution

Take Meera's three entries through the process. She logs in at incometax.gov.in, opens Services then Annual Information Statement, and lands on the AIS for AY 2026-27. Each information item shows the reported value, the source, and an "Optional" feedback column. She acts on each.

For the duplicated savings interest, she opens the second Rs 48,000 entry, selects "Information is duplicate / included in other information", and submits. For the mutual-fund redemption, she opens the Rs 6,20,000 sale entry, selects "Information is not fully correct", and types the correct Rs 6,02,000 from her contract note. The salary line of Rs 14,00,000 matches her Form 16, so she marks it "Information is correct". The table below shows the before-and-after.

The moment she submits, the AIS shows the modified value in brackets next to the reported value - for example "Rs 6,20,000 (Rs 6,02,000)" - and she receives an email and SMS confirmation, with a downloadable acknowledgement for her file. The department lets you submit bulk feedback across multiple items in one action, which is useful when a single duplicate source has generated many lines.

Now the numbers. The phantom Rs 48,000 of interest, had it survived into the return, would have been taxed at Meera's 15% marginal slab (the Rs 12,00,000 to Rs 16,00,000 band under the FY 2025-26 new-regime slabs), or Rs 7,488 including 4% health-and-education cess. The Rs 18,000 overstatement in her sale value (Rs 6,20,000 less Rs 6,02,000) would have inflated her capital gain by the same amount and, at the 12.5% long-term equity rate under the post-Budget-2024 regime, added about Rs 2,340 in tax (12.5% plus cess). You can model both effects with our income-tax calculator and the capital-gains calculator, and check withholding against the TDS calculator.

After feedback, Meera downloads the AIS Consolidated Feedback (ACF) file, which lists every item and her response in one PDF. When she opens her return draft, the pre-fill now reflects the corrected TIS - the duplicate gone, the sale at Rs 6,02,000. If the source (her bank or registrar) later confirms or revises its filing, the AIS updates again; until then, her feedback value is what TIS carries. This is why the department recommends acting on AIS before, not after, filing - and certainly before any refund is processed against the figures.

FAQ

How long does AIS feedback take to reflect in TIS and the pre-fill?

TIS recomputes the derived value as soon as feedback is processed, and the AIS FAQ on incometax.gov.in confirms the modified value appears in brackets against the reported value. The pre-fill draws from the latest TIS, so re-open or refresh your return draft after submitting feedback rather than relying on a copy you opened earlier in the session.

Does submitting feedback change what the bank reported to the department?

No. Your feedback is your response; it updates the TIS derived value but does not by itself rewrite the source filing. The reporting entity may confirm or correct its own statement through a separate process, after which the AIS reflects the source-confirmed value. Both the original and your modified value remain visible for transparency, as the AIS FAQ describes.

Can I correct Part A details like my address or date of birth through AIS feedback?

Feedback is for Part B financial information items. Part A identity fields - PAN, masked Aadhaar, name, date of birth, mobile, email and address - are governed by your PAN and profile records, so corrections to those flow from your PAN/Aadhaar data rather than AIS feedback. Keeping PAN active matters here: an inoperative PAN disrupts credits and refunds, as we cover in our guide on PAN-Aadhaar linking consequences.

What if the AIS entry genuinely belongs to a different financial year?

Select "Information relates to other PAN / year" against that item. This is common when a bank reports interest on an accrual basis that you account for on receipt, or when a transaction straddles 31 March. The derived value is then attributed away from the current year's TIS, preventing a mismatch in the year you are filing.

Is there a deadline to submit AIS feedback?

The department does not fix a hard cut-off for feedback itself, but the practical deadline is your filing - and then verification. Your return must be e-verified within 30 days of filing or it is treated as never filed, as we explain in our piece on the 30-day e-verification rule. Correct the AIS before you file so the pre-fill is right the first time.

Will a wrong AIS entry trigger a notice if I ignore it?

A mismatch between your return and the department's information is a common trigger for scrutiny or a defective-return notice. If you receive a notice under Section 139(9), you have a 15-day window to respond, as detailed in our defective-return notice guide. Acting on AIS feedback early is the cleaner route than contesting a mismatch after assessment.

Is there a mobile way to do this?

Yes. The department's "AIS for Taxpayer" mobile app lets you view AIS and TIS and submit feedback from your phone, using the same Part A and Part B structure as the portal. The data and feedback options mirror the web portal documented in the AIS FAQ on incometax.gov.in.