CBDT has made it mandatory for TDS deductors to issue PART A of from No. 16 for TDS deduction made on or After 01.04.2012 to by generating it through TRACES Portal and after duly authenticating and verifying it. Part B (Annexure)’ of Form No. 16 shall be prepared by the deductor manually and issued to [...]

The deductor, issuing the Part A of Form No. 16 by downloading it from the TRACES Portal, shall, before issuing to the deductee authenticate the correctness of contents mentioned therein and verify the same either by using manual signature or by using digital signature in accordance with sub-rule (6) of Rule 31.

What is Form 16A and how is it different from Form 16? If you are not a salaried employee and work as a professional for an organisation and earn fees, then the certificate that shows TDS details deducted while making payments to you is Form 16A.

New utility for generation of Form 16A in pdf format provided by https://www.tdscpc.gov.in is very light and is sized only 8.43 MB while earlier utility was sized 58.04 MB.

Brief procedure for receiving Form 16A from TIN website: 1. Login to TAN Registration Account with user id, password and TAN. 2. Request Form 16A by carrying out verification by providing details of challan and deductees present in the TDS statement for which Form 16A is requested. 3. Form 16A will be provided on successful verification. 4. Two attempts within a day for successful verification are provided. 5. On successful verification, request number is generated and text file containing Form 16A details is e-mailed within 48 hours at the e-mail ID present in the registered TAN account.

NSDL has recently started a online facility by which deductee can verify the correctness of TDS Certificate (Form 16A) issued by the deductor. To know the correctness deductee must have the following details or should have a copy of TDS certificate issued by the deductor as information from the same need to be filled in online verification form to verify correctness of TDS Certificate (Form 16A) issued by the deductor.

All deductors (including government deductors who deposit TDS in the Central Government Account through book entry) shall issue TDS certificate in Form No. 16A generated through TIN central system and which is downloaded from the TIN website with a unique TDS certificate number in respect of all sums deducted on or after the 1st day of April, 2012 under any of the provisions of Chapter-XVII-B other than section 192.

CBDT Circular No. 01/2012 All deductors (including government deductors who deposit TDS in the Central Government Account through book entry) shall issue TDS certificate in Form No. 16A generated through TIN central system and which is downloaded from the TIN website with a unique TDS certificate number in respect of all sums deducted on or after the 1st day of April, 2012 under any of the provisions of Chapter-XVII-B other than section 192. In other words, the issuance of duty verified TDS certificate in Form No. 16A, by the deductor of any category shall henceforth by only through TIN Central System. The deductor shall therefore, download such certificate from the TIN Central System, verify the correctness of the contents mentioned therein and authenticate the correctness of the contents before issue of the said certificate.

1) Extract Zip file containing TDS certificate data in text form by using WinZip version 9.0 and above, WinRaR version 3.90 and above and 7-Zip version 4.65 and above. 2) Extract zip file by providing the TAN registration number. 3) Open the PDF converter utility by double clicking the file PDF Converter Utility.bat

CBDT has issued a Circular No. 03/2011 dated May 13, 2011 as per which TDS Certificates in Form No. 16A will be generated from Tax Information Network (TIN). It is mandatory for Companies and Banks to issue Form 16A from TIN to their deductees for deductions made from April 1, 2011 (F.Y. 2011-12 onwards). Taxpayers are advised to insist on Form 16A (quarterly TDS certificate) that has been downloaded by the Deductors from TIN Central System only.