My father died intestate.We are four brothers. What is the procedure to file Return of Income related to my late father?

My father died intestate.We are four brothers. What is the procedure to file Return of Income related to my late father?

See , first better have an agreement among legal heirs regarding the brother who will reprsent your father for the purpose of Income tax matters. Then that brother can file retrun as leagal heir of the deceased father and total income shall be taxed on that brother in legal representative capacity.

Section 159 of the I T Act is related to procedure to be adopted for assessment on Legal Representative of the Deceased person.Read below carefully :

"Section 159. (1) Where a person dies, his legal representative shall be liable to pay any sum which the deceased would have been liable to pay if he had not died, in the like manner and to the same extent as the deceased.

(2) For the purpose of making an assessment (including an assessment, reassessment or re computation under section 147) of the income of the deceased and for the purpose of levying