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Brief Details of Revised Format Form 16 (Salary TDS Certificate)

Revised Form 16

A new format for Form 16 has been notified by the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) which is the ‘salary TDS certificate’. This new format will break the tax-exempt allowances in details which are paid to the employee and apart from this, the entire tax brakes which are claimed by the taxpayers.

Latest Update in Form 16 Under TDS

  • 20th October 2022: The ITAT Chennai, held that disallowance of an appeal cannot be made due to the non-deduction of TDS from salary when the same is disclosed in the employee’s ITR. Read Order
  • 17th March 2022: “The CBDT has issued circular no.04 related to the tax deduction form salary under the Income-tax section 192.” Read More
  • 25th June 2021: The Central Board of Direct Taxes ( CBDT) has extended the due date of issuance form 16 under TDS from 15th July 2021 to 31st July 2021. Read more

Salary TDS Certificate Notified Date & When it Came into Effect?

The CBDT notified the new format for Form 16 through a notification on 12th April 2019. It has came into effect from 12th May 2019 i.e. before the deadline of issuing Form 16 or the TDS certificate by employers for salary. So, the person who will issue Form 16 after the mentioned date will have to do it in the new format.

How this New Format is Different from the Earlier Format?

The earlier format permitted the firms or companies to give aggregate data or break-ups in different formats for both of them which resulted in problems of their personal composition.

What Changes have been Made in the New Format of the TDS Return?

To allow tax employee to recheck the ITR, Form 16 and the TDS returns of the company with ease, The tax department has made concurrent changes in the new format of the TDS returns (details of TDS from the salary of employees) filed by the companies.

Form 16 Changes
Image Source: Economictimes.indiatimes.com

“Tax-exempt allowances received by an employee to be reported in new Form-16 under section 10

Exemption Form 16 Changes

Reasons, Why Salary TDS Certificate has been Notified?

The salary TDS certificate has been notified because the former year the tax person found many incorrect claims made by the employees that too of huge income tax refunds. So this new format has been notified to remove all such false claims in the coming future.

How is the New Format Better than the Old One?

With the help of the new format, the tax department can see the breakup of the income and tax breaks in detail of the salaried person in the first occurrence itself. Apart from this, the tax department can also see if there is any difference between the income and deductions in Form 16 and if individual files the Income Tax Returns (ITR), it will also be seen immediately.

Read Also: Easy Guide to Generate Form 16 via Gen TDS Return Software

It also helps the department to recheck the data digitally as the company has already provided the breakup of the income and deduction and also fixes the format as they provided it.

According to the new format for Form 16, the form issued by any employer must mandatorily mention the nature of the tax-exempt allowances which is paid to the employee. “The previous format of Form-16 was not providing the specific list of tax-exempt allowances on which the salaried person was not required to pay any tax. Now as per the revised format, the employer will have to specify the nature as well as the amount of allowances that are exempt from tax.

Similar details have also been asked for in this year’s ITR-1” said Abhishek Soni, CEO, Tax2filing.in, a tax-filing website. The new format gives full details of the allowances like the house rent allowance under section 10(13A), Travel concession or assistance under section 10(5), and many other exemptions under the Income Tax Act.

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Published by Subodh Kumawat
Subodh has done with numerous professional degrees ranging from Human Rights to Banking along with MBA in HR Marketing. He is also interested in the field of tax-related articles and blog as per the industry based norms. Having expert knowledge in diverse sectors, he assures facts and figures along with testimony, in his articles. Working in SAG Infotech, he is a trusted author among the readers globally. View more posts
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