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F.No. : DGIT(S)/CPC(TDS)/Corp_Authentication Mech 2015-16/14557-14690
Government of India Notification No. 3/2015 New Delhi, 1st of December 2015 Subject: Stringent Authentication mechanism through Corporate Head Quarter Server for filing of Correction statements & download of TDS certificates, Consolidated files etc. by Banks/Corporates-regarding Section 200 .of the Income tax Act provides for filing of TDS statements. The manner of filing 'Such statements and the particulars have been laid down in Rule 31A of the Income tax Rules. Vide Sub Rule 5 of Rule 31A (placed at DFA-11) of the Income Tax Rules, it .has been specified that he Director General of Income Tax (Systems) shall specify the procedures, formats and standards for the purposes of furnishing and verification of the statements or claim for refund in Form 26B and shall be responsible for the day-to-day administration in relation to furnishing and verification of the statements or claim for refund in Form 26B in the manner so specified. In exercise of the powers delegated by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (Board) under Explanation to Sub Rule 5 of Rule 31A of the Income-tax Rules 1962, the Principal Director General of lncome-tax(Systems) lays down the authentication mechanism for filing of correction statements & download of TDS certificates, Consolidated files etc. by Banks and Corporates deductors as under:
1. Need of Authentication Process 1.2 During this exercise, the banks were finding it hard to resolve the TDS defaults in case of closed branches arid branches merged with other banks. The banks were not able to retrieve old records for FY 2007-08, 2009-10 etc. in order to file correction statements to resolve the outstanding defaults. Further banks also found challenge procuring digital signatures for each branch for filing online correction on TRACES portal. The genesis of the modified access process lies in strategy to address the above challenges of retrieval of old data without use of digital signature. As discussed above, 80% of total PAN errors pertain to banks. The modified access process will bring in discipline to the correction process as only the authorized bank official would be able to work on TRACES system. The concept of involving head quarter as a "corporate connect" drive will help in bringing in better TDS compliance as the headquarter will have complete picture of the TDS compliance of each branch.
2. Mechanism involved 2.2 The detailed process in this regard is as under:
2.2.1 Deductor Functionalities Access Service URL 2.2.2 List of Request Parameters
Data from website needs to be submitted only using POST method through HTIPS request using the following parameters. 2.2.3 Structure of "data" field
* The above fields in the data will be separated by “^”
2.2.4 List of unauthorized access scenarios 3. CPC (TDS) will gradually migrate banks and corporates to the modified authentication process of accessing TRACES portal. Durir)g transitional period of on boarding of banks/corporates normal access to TRACES portal will remain available to the users of respective banks/corporates . The normal access will be discontinued only after complete on boarding of the entity and all its branches.
(P. S. Thuingaleng)
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