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Bonus Recovered on Exit — ITR Reporting Checklist

How to reconcile a repaid joining/retention bonus against Form 16 and AIS when the portal still shows the full salary.

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3-page practice-note style — narrative plus checklists plus a legal citation. The most advisory document in the set.

What's inside

Why the Form 16/AIS mismatch happens in the first place when a bonus is repaid
Two paths explained: same-financial-year repayment (clean) vs later-year repayment (litigation-prone) — with the actual ITAT case cited
Documents to gather: offer letter clawback clause, recovery note, repayment proof
A ready-to-use reconciliation table: gross salary → less recovered bonus → net salary
How to handle TDS credit correctly, and how to pre-empt an AIS mismatch or 143(1)(a) query
4 specific things NOT to do — including the wrong assumption that Section 89 automatically applies

Who it's for

Employees who received a joining or retention bonus, left the company, and had to repay it — a narrow but genuinely high-stakes situation.

Why it matters

Get the position wrong and an Assessing Officer can add the repaid amount back to your taxable salary — this is a real litigated grey area, backed by an actual ITAT ruling, not a simple deduction.

Bonus Recovered on Exit — ITR Reporting Checklist

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