Correction of misposted tax payments allows assessing officers to claim challans at other collection centres for crediting taxpayers. A new administrative utility permits Assessing Officers with the AR_ITOAC role to claim prior year challans lying at other RCCs/CCs when payments are recorded under wrong PAN/TAN; the claiming AO must provide CIN, Amount and Major Head and may populate PAN/TAN of his/her RCC/CC only. The process requires verification by both the AO where payment is held and the AO initiating the claim, after which records are routed to the RCC corresponding to the corrected PAN/TAN for assessment.