Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) is applicable on almost every purchase made by an organization,
whether goods or services.
Companies are supposed to deduct TDS as per Income Tax Act on behalf of Government and deposit
TDS on monthly basis. Non-compliance attracts penalties, disallowance of expenses and prosecution
in some cases.
There has been confusion regarding this hot topic. The question is simply that if a business needs to reconcile then it should reconcile with 16A issued by the deductors or the tax credit statement of 26AS. To resolve this confusion, we need to be back to basics of the TDS receivable reconciliations.
We at TaxReco are mainly focused on automating the cumbersome Tax Reconciliation process at large scale through a simple, unified and standard workflows and improving the productivity of our customers.
Tax Reconciliation is a complex technical problem to solve especially at large scale.
Much of the complexity lies in the following areas at a high level.
With the end of Financial Year 2021-22, every company would start reconciling 26AS form with their TDS Receivable Ledger.
The amount of TDS/TCS appearing in form 26AS has to be claimed from the government, after reconciliation, when Income Tax Return is filed.
TaxReco has been discussing it since Feb 2021 as to how TDS Section 194Q will impact or has already begun impacting the way that tax teams work in companies across industries.
For one thing, the spotlight has been put on Form 26AS reconciliation/ TDS Reconciliation
This Diwali marked the completion of First Quarter of TDS u/s 194Q which was implemented w.e.f. 01 July 2021 and also the completion of First year of TCS u/s 206C 1H which was implemented w.e.f. 01 Oct 2020.
The new provisions have affected the cash flow of many industries by impacting how their transactions are taxed.
