Common Reasons for Rejection after Correction in TDS/TCS Payment Challans

Correction in Challans of TDS payments filed may in certain cases be rejected by the department. There are a number of common reasons of rejection of Correction in TDS/TCS Payment Challans.

In some cases persons are unable to find the exact cause of rejection even after having tried all possible methods. The most common errors or rejection of TDS/TCS revised Payment Challans given as under:

• Challan detail record on which correction has been filed does not exist in regular / previous statement
• In a correction statement, verification keys from challan data should match with the corresponding fields in regular statement

Verification keys for Non Nil Statement - Last transfer voucher number, Last Bank-Branch Code / Form 24G Receipt Number, Last date of transfer voucher / bank Challan, Last deposit amount as per challan

Verification keys for Nil challan - Last date of transfer voucher number / bank challan, last total deposit amount as per challan

• If an unmatched challan is being corrected, then the sum of deposit amount of all the active deductee rows in the regular and correction statement and corrected values of claimed TDS interest and claimed TDS Others amount should be less than or equal to Total deposit amount of challan given in statement
• If a matched challan is being corrected, then available balance amount in the challan should be sufficient for consumption of updated sum of deposit amount of all the active deductee rows in correction and corrected values of claimed TDS interest and claimed TDS Others amount
• In case of existing matched / partially matched challan, deductor can only update Cheque / DD Number, claimed TDS Interest amount, claimed TDS Others amount and Section code
• If deductor updates only deductee details, then claimed TDS Interest amount and claimed TDS Others amount as given in the challan should match with the corresponding values present in regular / previous return