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Solutions to the errors while doing the E-TDS- Articles Explains Specific Errors description with solutions and General Errors description with Solutions. Error description contains record type, Error Code T-FV, Description of Error and Solution of Error related to E-TDS Return.
Filing electronic TDS (E-TDS) returns is a crucial compliance requirement for businesses in India, involving the submission of detailed records of tax deducted at source to the Income Tax Department. Despite the meticulous nature of this process, filers frequently encounter various errors that can hinder successful submission. These errors, often identified through error codes, can arise from issues in file headers, batch records, challan details, or deductee details. Understanding and resolving these errors is essential for ensuring accurate and timely E-TDS filings.
This guide provides an in-depth analysis of specific and general errors encountered during the E-TDS filing process, along with practical solutions for each. The errors are categorized based on their record type and error code, accompanied by descriptions and corrective actions. This structured approach will aid filers in efficiently addressing errors, thereby streamlining the E-TDS return submission process.
Also Read: TDS Returns: Solution to FVU Errors T_FV_6351 and T_FV_6354
Specific Errors description with solutions
|
Line No. |
Record |
Error |
Description |
Solution |
|
1 |
File Header |
1000 |
Invalid File Header Record Length | Select (.txt) file instead of (.html) file for validation.If Data is beyond the maximum character length allowed. |
|
1 |
File Header |
1006 |
Invalid File Creation Date | Check the current Date of system & Date format of System according to s/w.For e-TDS/AIR dd/MM/yyyy. |
|
1 |
File Header |
1007 |
Invalid File Sequence Number | Please give the file sequence number while generating the file. |
|
1 |
File Header |
1010 |
Invalid TAN/TFC Id | Give the correct TAN |
|
2 |
Batch |
2027 |
Invalid TAN of Deductor / Employer / Collector | Correct the TAN |
|
2 |
Batch |
2030 |
Invalid PAN of Employer /Deductor/Collector | Correct PAN |
|
2 |
Batch |
2034 |
Invalid Assessment Year / Financial Year | Correct the Assessment Year / Financial Year. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2041 |
Invalid Employer / Deductor / Collector State | Correct the State Spell/ give the State Name correctly (in block letters) |
|
2 |
Batch |
2042 |
Invalid Employer/Deductor/ Collector PIN Code | Correct the PIN code of 6 digits.Give the PIN code of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2043 |
Invalid Address Change Indicator of Employer/Deductor/ Collector | Please specify whether the Address of Employer / Deductor / Collector is changed or not. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2045 |
Invalid Responsible Person’s Designation | Give the Designation of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2047 |
Invalid Responsible Person’s Address 2 | Give Address 2 of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2049 |
Invalid Responsible Person’s Address 4 | Give Address 4 of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2050 |
Invalid Responsible Person’s Address 5 | Give Address 5 of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2051 |
Invalid Responsible Person’s State | Give the correct Spelling of state of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2053 |
Invalid Person Responsible Email Id1 | Give correct e-mail ID if present or don’t give any value. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2076 |
Invalid Deductor Type | Specify type of deductor Govt / Other. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2080 |
Person Responsible Address1 is mandatory | Give Flat No. / Address1 of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2081 |
For Regular, C1 or If Batch Updation Indicator is ‘1’, Employer/Deductor/Collector Address 1 is mandatory | Give Flat No. / Address1 of Employer / Deductor / Collector. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2083 |
For Regular, C1 or If Batch Updation Indicator is ‘1’, Employer/Deductor/Collector PIN Code is mandatory | Give the pin code. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2086 |
Person Responsible State is mandatory | Give the State of Person Responsible. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2088 |
Person Responsible Pin is mandatory | Give the Pin code. |
|
2 |
Batch |
2101 |
Employer/Deductor/Collector Name is Mandatory | Give the Employer Name |
|
3 |
Challan |
3021 |
Invalid Bank Challan No | This error occurred if challan number or BSR code or both is given when deposited by book entry. |
|
3 |
Challan |
3035 |
Invalid Bank Branch Code | This error occurred when BSR code is less than 7 characters. |
|
3 |
Challan |
3043 |
Invalid Section / Collection Code | If value of section code is incorrect / not given in Challan Detail. |
|
5 |
Challan |
3048 |
TDS / Income Tax Amount is not equal to Total Tax Deposited | If TDS / Income Tax + Surcharge + E. Cess + Others is not equal to Total Tax Deposited |
|
3 |
Challan |
3066 |
Sum of TDS/TCS-Interest Amount + TDS/TC S-Others (amount) + Total Tax Deposit Amount as per deductee annexure is greater than Total of Deposit Amount as per Challan/Transfer Voucher number | Cheque whether Total Tax Deducted is greater than Total Tax Deposited by challan.Cheque whether Total of TDS / TCS ~ surcharge ~ E. Cess ~ Interest in Challan detail is mismatch with deductee detail annexure. |
|
3 |
Challan |
3104 |
Invalid By Book entry / Cash | Give challan number if not given, and select no in ‘Deposited by Book Entry’.Delete challan no. and Bank BSR code if deposited by book entry. |
|
3 |
Challan |
3115 |
Invalid Cheque / DD number | Give the value of Cheque/DD No. if present in Challan Detail Table.If deposited in Cash then give value 0 in Cheque/DD No. column. |
|
3 |
Challan |
3116 |
For Transaction Type C5, Cancellation or Nil Challan or If Challan Updation Indicator is ‘0’ or if Transfer Voucher, Cheque / DD number must not be provided | Give challan number if not given, and select no in ‘Deposited by Book Entry’.Delete challan no. and Bank BSR code if deposited by book entry. |
|
4 |
Deductee |
4009 |
Invalid Employee/Party PAN | Give the correct PAN of Employee in Annexure (i) TDS Detail Table (Deductee wise break up of TDS) |
|
4 |
Deductee |
4010 |
Invalid PAN Reference number | No value should be given in PAN reference No. Column when given PAN number in deductee detail table is given. |
|
4 |
Deductee |
4012 |
Invalid Name of Employee / Party | Give the Name of the Employee in Annexure (i) TDS Detail Table (Deductee wise break up of TDS) |
|
4 |
Deductee |
4020 |
File Does Not Exist / Empty | Give the correct file name.File name should start with alphabet. |
| Deductee |
4098 |
Invalid Date on which tax Deducted / Collected | This error occurred when Date of Deduction / Collection is after quarter ending or check the date format as per s/w or check the A.Y. selected for given quarter. | |
|
4 |
Deductee |
4212 |
‘Date of Deposit’ must be same as ‘Date of Bank Challan No./Transfer Voucher No.’ | Date of Challan & Date of Tax Deposited must be same. |
General Errors description
| SR No. | Record Type |
Error Code T-FV- | Description |
| 1 | File Header | 1002 | Line number not in Sequence |
| 2 | File Header | 1003 | Valid line number must be provided |
| 3 | File Header | 1008 | A File cannot have more than 10 Batches |
| 4 | File Header | 1009 | Invalid TAN/TFC Id Indicator |
| 5 | File Header | 1012 | For Regular upload only one batch is allowed |
| 6 | File Header | 1013 | Batch Count Mismatch |
| 7 | File Header | 1014 | Duplicate File Header Record |
| 8 | File Header | 1015 | For Deductor/Collector Upload File Sequence number is mandatory |
| 9 | File Header | 1018 | Mismatch between number of Batches Specified in File Header Record and number of Batches present in File |
| 10 | File Header | 1019 | Invalid File Format |
| 11 | File Header | 1020 | File does not exist or Empty File |
| 12 | File Header | 1021 | FVU Version is either Incorrect or NULL |
| 13 | File Header | 1026 | Mismatch of FVU File Level HashCode. |
| 14 | File Header | 1029 | Invalid Challan Input file. |
| 15 | File Header | 1030 | CIN File Not Exists in required Path. |
| 16 | File Header | 1031 | Empty CIN File Uploaded. |
| 17 | File Header | 1032 | Number Of challan in CIN File Header is not matched with Number of challan present. |
| 18 | File Header | 1034 | Invalid RPU Type. |
| 19 | Batch | 2001 | Invalid Batch Header Record Length |
| 20 | Batch | 2002 | Line number not in Sequence |
| 21 | Batch | 2003 | Invalid Line number |
| 22 | Batch | 2005 | Invalid Batch number |
| 23 | Batch | 2006 | Invalid Count Of Deductee |
| 24 | Batch | 2007 | Invalid Transaction Type |
| 25 | Batch | 2014 | Valid Previous RRR No must be provided |
| 26 | Batch | 2018 | Valid RRR Number must be provided |
| 27 | Batch | 2026 | For Correction File ,Last TAN of Deductor/Employer/Collector is mandatory |
| 28 | Batch | 2028 | TAN of Deductor/Employer/Collector is mandatory |
| 29 | Batch | 2033 | Valid Financial Year must be provided |
| 30 | Batch | 2037 | Invalid Deductor / Collector Address2 |
| 31 | Batch | 2064 | Form number is mandatory |
| 32 | Batch | 2073 | TAN of Employer/ Deductor/ Collector must not be provided |
| 33 | Batch | 2126 | Invalid Record |
| 34 | Batch | 2127 | Invalid count of salary detail record |
| 35 | Batch | 2131 | Count of Challan must not be provided |
| 36 | Batch | 2132 | Valid Period must be provided |
| 37 | Batch | 2159 | Assessment Year’ must be same as provided in First Batch of File |
| 38 | Batch | 2160 | ‘Financial Year’ must be same as provided in First Batch of File |
| 39 | Challan Details | 3000 | Invalid Challan Detail Record Length. |
| 40 | Challan Details | 3002 | Line number not in Sequence |
| 41 | Challan Details | 3003 | Invalid Line number |
| 42 | Challan Details | 3007 | Valid Challan Updation Indicator must be provided |
| 43 | Challan Details | 3020 | Invalid Oltas-TDS / TCS Income Tax |
| 44 | Challan Details | 3027 | Oltas TDS/TCS-Income Tax must not be provided |
| 45 | Challan Details | 3028 | For Nil Challan , TDS/TCS-Interest amount must be 0.00 (zero) |
| 46 | Challan Details | 3138 | Bank Challan No. should not be provided |
| 47 | Challan Details | 3149 | Provide valid 7 digit BSR code |
| 48 | Deductee Details | 4003 | Line number not in Sequence |
| 49 | Deductee Details | 4005 | Valid Batch Number must be provided |
| 50 | Deductee Details | 4081 | Date of Deposit must not be provided |
| 51 | Deductee Details | 4113 | TDS/ TCS Surcharge must not be provided |
| 52 | Deductee Details | 4140 | To date must not be provided |
| 53 | Deductee Details | 4156 | Income Tax on Total Income must not be provided |
| 54 | Deductee Details | 4261 | Deductor PAN is mentioned in the Deductee details |
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Batch C3 – Deductee Correction Challan-Detail Record Number – – T-FV-2097 Count of Challan/Transfer voucher Records in Batch Header not matches with actual no. of Challan/Transfer Voucher No.
T-FV-1038 Consolidated File is not valid.
I am getting the above massage. Kindly provide the sollution.
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T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length..
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T-FV-4316 Invalid Deductee Reference Number how to solve this Problem on filing the E-Tds on NSDL provided software please help me call 09945801505
T-FV-1038^Consolidated File is not valid.
T-FV-1038 Consolidated File is not valid.
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T-FV-1038 Consolidated File is not valid.
What is solution?
Sir,
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11 Deductee C3 – Deductee Correction Book Entry / Cash Indicator 22 1
T-FV-4304 Book Entry/Cash Indicator must not be provided
i am getting the following message. kindly provide solution
T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length
Sir,
I’m trying to prepare a correction statement of 26Q for the 4th qr of financial year 2010-11 but following error is showing while I’m verifying from FVU4.0 :
Batch C3 – Deductee Correction NA – – T-FV-3000 Invalid Challan Detail Record Length.
2 Batch C3 – Deductee Correction Challan-Detail Record Number – – T-FV-2097 Count of Challan/Transfer voucher Records in Batch Header not matches with actual no. of Challan/Transfer Voucher No.
2 File Level C3 – Deductee Correction NA NA NA T-FV-2126 Invalid Record
Please help me ASAP as I have to submit the file.
Your suggestion would be highly obliged.
Thanks
Ashfaq
respected sir,
i correction statement (24-Q) we have found an error code T-FV-4064 – Invalid Salary Details Record Length – pls help me
prashant
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T-FV-4316 Invalid Deductee Reference Number
T-FV-4316 Invalid Deductee Reference Number PLS HELP ME
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No error code has been display
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I Received this Error >>> T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length . Please rectify.
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@ SK RAKESH :-
IT MEANS CHALLAN NO MUST BE 5 DIGIT
Please ractify T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length error.
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T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length
Please give me suggestion this error
Hi
I have found Solution to error code no T-FV-2001
Hi
I have found Solution to error code no T-FV-2001
You are required to download Latest RPU Utility [e.g. Today Latest RPU utility is RPU 3.5]
Prepare TDS Return using RPU 3.5 and Validate TDS return by using FVU 3.8
guys i have facing same problem but i have found solution by doing above exercise, hope this will also help you.
T-FV-2001 Invalid Batch Header Record Length
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