While we are automating TDS Reconciliation (26AS Reconciliation & 34A Reconciliation) for customers – we would like to share recent experiences and instead redefine the purpose of automation.
Bringing technology into business for core administration tasks has been cited as one of the innovations that has rescued most corporate tax departments over the last two years…
Clause 34 of Tax Audit Report (Form 3CD) requires Tax Auditors to comment on the overall Tax Deducted at Source (TDS/TCS) compliances by the tax payers. In accordance with the guidelines issued by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on this clause, the auditors ask for a reconciliation of Financial Statements with the TDS/TCS returns.
01 July 2022 marked another important date for the TDS provisions. It marked the introduction of new sections under the TDS chapter of the Income Tax, 1961. It remains in line with the directive of the government to bring more and more accountability and transparency in the economy. This time the government targeted new areas of the TDS application.
The recon of the 34A is probably the most crucial recon of the Form 3CD.
Usually, companies take the data as filled out in the TDS returns filed during the year and submit the same with the details from all the quarters.
We at TaxReco typically deal with large datasets for a variety of customers.Our Reconciliation Engine has got a suite of comprehensive matching algorithms to match the financial transactions from different data sources.
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.
