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Online Correction of TDS/TCS Statement at TRACES

If Assessee has uploaded TDS return but there occur some mistakes while furnishing the TDS statement PAN is wrongly mentioned, short deduction of TDS amount, excess utilization of any challan etc. In that case, the assessee has to do online corrections in the TDS statement on “TRACES” (TDS Reconciliation Analysis and Correction Enabling System).

Steps for Online Corrections in TDS/TCS Statement

Step 1: Log in to TRACES website

Step 2: Go to “Request for correction” under “Defaults” by entering the relevant Quarter, Financial Year, Form Type, and Latest Accepted Token number. The correction category should be “Online”, and the request number will be generated

Step 3: The request will be available under “Track Correction Request” when the request status becomes “Available” Click on Available / In progress status to proceed with the correction and provide information of valid KYC

Step 4: Select the type of correction category from the drop-down as “Challan Correction”

Step 5: Make the required corrections in the selected file

Step 6: Click on “Submit for Processing” to submit your correction (Only available to admin user), and the request can be submitted via Digital signature of an Authorised person.

Step 7: A 15-digit token number will be generated and mailed to the registered e-mail ID

Online Corrections’ List of TDS/TCS

All types of corrections, like “Personal information, Deductee details and Challan correction” can be made using online correction functionality available from FY 2007-08 onwards, depending upon the type of correction.

Type of Error or DefaultsCorrection TypeAvailable from FYDSC Required
If the challan is unmatchedChallan correctionFY 2007-08 OnwardsNo
Add a new challanAdd a challan to the statementFY 2007-08 OnwardsNo
To clear the interest and late fee demand paymentPay 220, interest, levy, late filingFY 2007-08 OnwardsNo
To move the deductee rowRequest for overbooked challan (move the deductee row from the challan)FY 2007-08 OnwardsNo
To update PANPAN correctionFY 2007-08 OnwardsYes
To add/modify the deductee rowAdd/Modify deductee detailsFY 2013-14 OnwardsYes
To update personal detailsPersonal informationFY 2007-08 OnwardsYes
To modify salary detailsAdd or delete salary detailsFY 2013-14 OnwardsYes

Note: For the paper return, online correction cannot be done

Status of Online Correction Requests

  • Requested: When the user submits a request for correction.
  • Initiated: The request is being processed by TDS CPC
  • Available: Request for correction is accepted, and the statement is made available for correction. The user can start correcting the statement. Clicking on the hyperlink will take the user to the validation screen. Once the user clicks on the request with ‘Available’ status, the status of the request/statement will change to ‘In Progress
  • Failed: Request cannot be made available due to a technical error. The user can resubmit the request for the same details
  • In Progress: The user is working on a statement. Clicking on the hyperlink will take the user to the validation screen
  • Submitted to Admin User: Sub-user / Admin User has submitted a correction statement to Admin User
  • Submitted to ITD: Admin User has submitted a correction statement to ITD for processing
  • Processed: Statement has been processed by TDS CPC (either for Form 26AS or for defaults)
  • Rejected: Statement has been rejected by TDS CPC after processing. Rejection reasons will be displayed in the ‘Remarks’ column.

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290 thoughts on "Online Correction of TDS/TCS Statement at TRACES"

  1. Dear Sir,

    I have filed TDS return for Q4 for Salaries, unfortunately, I have deducted fewer TDS after getting the notice to me I had paid balance TDS amount, later on during filing of correction statement after adding challans its asking salary for which it is deducted in Annexure-2 of salary details but it is already shown in filed return. if i give salary again it may lead to higher salary for Employee in his Form-26AS.
    So how to rectify the problem ? whether to change salary in previous quarters by filing correction statement by add/remove salary options and later on shall I file the return for correction statement by adding challans and giving the balance salary which I have removed from previous quarters? or is there any alternative available for it to solve the problem

    1. You can reduce the ‘payment/credit amount’ i.e. taxable amount from originally filed entries and show that amount in the new challan. Adjust your total ‘payment/credit amount’ in Q-4 in proportion to the total TDS you have deposited for the quarter.

      1. Sir, We have Filed TDS return of Q2 of 2017-18, it has been processed without defaults but we have to change the Deductee details because TDS Deducted was wrongly mentioned for 4 employees.

        when I tried to file Correction statements, it keeps showing the error” Challan details in correction do not match with some of the non updatable matched columns”

        Kindly help to resolve the issue

  2. Sir, I had filled TDS 24Q return through offline but mistakenly I enter a wrong date in the challan amount deposited date column. Are there any possibilities to change the correct challan date without a digital signature?

  3. In the traces website, I add one challan after it showing “SUBMITTED TO ADMIN USER” and I click Submit for processing button is no response, can you please guide the process to solve it.

  4. Hi

    I have wrongly filed three rows of deductee detail in q2 of fy 2017 18 for 26 q. I need to delete those deductees from the statement. I use the rpu 2.2 provided by tin. Here it prompts that deletion is not allowed.

    Please help me in this regard

      1. Thanks for your reply.

        I tried already through online corrections. But I couldn’t. Can you please guide me with precise menu/option in Traces or a link to the tutorial for the same.

    1. You Can Proceed by Nullification of the deductee rows which you have filed wrongly. Just Payment and TDs should be zero.
      you cannot delete entries.

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