TRACES is the online portal for filing TDS Returns, correction of TDS Returns, and downloading TDS certificates. Form 16A is a TDS Certificate issued by a deductor for non-salary payments like professional fees, brokerage, commission, interest, rent, contractual payment, etc. It contains details of the nature of payment and TDS deducted on it. The deductor can download Form 16A from his account on TRACES. To do so, it is necessary that the status of the submitted return i.e. Form 26Q should be ‘Statement Processed with Default’ or ‘Statement Processed without Default’.
While Form 16A is TDS Certificate for non-salary payments, Form 16 a is TDS Certificate for salary payments. A deductor can download both from their account on TRACES.
How to Download Form 16A?
FAQs
- Login to TRACES
Login to TRACES – Enter User Id, Password, TAN or PAN and captcha
- Navigate to Form 16A
Go to Downloads > Form 16A
- Select Financial Year and PAN
Select the Financial Year and PAN for which you want to download the TDS certificate. Click on ‘Go’. The deductor can request for Form 16A using the option ‘Search PAN’ or ‘Bulk PAN’
- Details of authorised person
The details of the Authorised Person will appear on the screen. These details are populated from the profile information on TRACES. Further, these details would be printed on Form 16A. Click on Submit
- Select either of the following for KYC validation:
1. KYC Validation using DSC option
a. Select the Financial Year, Quarter and Form Type for KYC validation using DSC. Click on ‘Validate
b. Enter the password of DSC and click on ‘ok’. Select the DSC certificate and click on ‘Sign.’
2. Normal KYC Validation (without Digital Signature)
Select the Financial Year, Quarter and Form Type for KYC validation without using DSC. Enter the Authentication Code if you have finished the validation earlier and you have the authentication code
Enter the following details:
1. Enter the Token number of the TDS Return filed for the Financial Year, Quarter and Form Type selected in Step 5 above
2. Select the checkbox for Nil Challan or Book Adjustment
3. Enter the challan details – BSR Code, challan serial number, challan amount, date on which tax is deposited
4. Enter unique PAN-Amount combination – Enter PAN as entered in TDS Return and amount deposited
5. Click on Proceed
- Success page
Success page will appear on the screen once the KYC details are validated. Request Number will get generated for Form 16A. You can download the file from tab ‘Downloads’
- Navigate to Requested Downloads
Enter the Request Number or Request Date or View All. Select the applicable row. If the status is ‘Available‘, click on the download button
- Download TRACES utility
Click on HTTP Download button. A zip file is downloaded. Please do not extract the file. Go to Downloads > Requested Downloads. Click on the ‘Click here’ button.
- Enter verification code
1. Click on TRACES PDF Converter 1.4L to download utility for Form 16A
- Extract the zip file and open JAR file. Follow the steps to download pdf of Form 16A
1. Select zip file of Form 16A
2. Enter your TAN as the password for the input file
3. Select the folder to save the output pdf file
4. Select digital certificate to digitally sign the PDF files – this is not mandatory
5. Certificate details will be displayed under the certificate store
6. Click on the button ‘Proceed’
7. The pdf file of Form 16A is saved in the selected folder
8. The password to open Form 16A is TAN number in Capital letters i.e. ABCD12345E
You cannot download Form 16A on your own. You should request your deductor to provide you with Form 16A since he has deducted the TDS and filed TDS Return. He can download Form 16A at the end of each quarter from TRACES. However, you can download the tax credit statement from your account on the income tax website. It contains details of total income and TDS deducted on it.
Yes. Form 16A is different from Form 16 Part A.
The employer issues Form 16 TDS Certificate to the employee with details of Salary Income and TDS deducted on it. It comprises of two parts – Part A and Part B. Form 16 Part A contains all the TDS information – employer’s details, employee details, tax details, and assessment year.
The deductor issues Form 16A TDS Certificate for non-salary payments like professional fees, brokerage, commission, interest, rent, contractual payment, etc. It contains details of the nature of payment and TDS deducted on it.
1. Submitted – Successful submission, Request in processing
2. Available – Form 16A available for Downloading
3. Disabled – Duplicate request submitted for downloading
4. Failed – User is advised to contact CPC(TDS)
5. Not Available – All PAN mentioned in the statement is invalid
Hey @HarishMehta
Taxpayers or deductee cannot directly download form 16/form16A, the option to download Form 16/ 16A has been given to the Deductor. So, if you need Form 16 / 16A for TDS deducted by your current or previous employer or deductor you will have to contact them for the same. There is no option available on TRACES whereby you can download it yourself.
Hope this helps!
Hey @Dia_malhotra
Yes, individuals can still register as a taxpayer on TRACES even if they do not have TAN of the deductor by providing:
• Assessment Year
• Challan Serial Number and
• Amount of tax you have paid
Hope this helps!
In my Justification Report it shows an interest payable error whereas I’ve already paid the interest for that particular month According to the regulations what could be the reason for this?
Hi @saad,
According to regulations, interest payment default/errors may arise due to error in challan details , short deduction, short payment, late deposit of TDS amount. Here, you can file correction statement and revise the return.
Hope this helps!
Hi
I am not able to register the DSC despite many trials. I keep getting the error:
‘Error in establishing connection with TRACES Websocket Esigner. Please ensure that WebSigner Setup is installed and service is running on your machine and there are no proxies enabled on the browser while doing DSC activities’
Could you kindly help. I have tried all the instructions, as per below:
I have un-installed any previous versions of Java and emsigner.
I have installed Java 8, update 162 and 32 bit version on my Windows 10 machine
Downloaded TRACES-WebSigner-V2.0 and installed emsigner. The emsigner is running on my system.
Google Chrome is up to date. (Version 92.0.4515.131)
I have the DSC driver (e-pass 2003) installed.
I have rebooted and made sure the websigner (emsigner) is running.
When I go to my profile → Signature section, no window pops up, nothing loads, and if I click on ‘Request DSC’, I get the above error.
Could you point to me what I can do to make this work please. Do I need any physical device to generate tokens? I am logging in from the nri traces webpage. Thanks.
Preetham
@AkashJhaveri @Saad_C @Kaushal_Soni @Divya_Singhvi @Laxmi_Navlani can you help with this?
Hey @raopreetham, the first thing I would recommend you to do is to run the Emsigner as an administrator. Also, if it still does not seem to work, install the below mentioned JAVA fixer software and run it as an administrator and hopefully this would resolve your issue.
https://johann.loefflmann.net/downloads/jarfix.exe
The USB e-pass 2003 token device is particular type of a DSC.
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