Deductors, Tax Payers and PAO can register on TRACES.

Deductors can perform the following activities through TRACES:

• Registration of Admin User for a TAN.

• Creation of sub-users by Admin User.

• View challan status.

• Download Justification Report.

• Download Form 16 / 16A / 27D and TBR

• View TDS - TCS credit for a PAN.

• View Statement Status.

• Provide feedback.

• Manage user profile and change password.

• Validate 197 & 195(3) Certificates.

• Online Correction.

• Declaration for Non - filing of Statement.

• Request for TDS Refund.

• Offline Correction

• Download Transaction Based Report

• Give Declaration to Deposit Lower TDS

• Request for Resolution.

• Request for OLTAS Challan Correction.

• Request for Form 15E

• Request for 26A/27BA etc.

Conditions to register on TRACES are as follows:

• Before doing Registration on TRACES, Deductor must ensure that he had already filed a Statement with TDS/TCS amount, and it should be processed by TRACES.

• Statement filed by Deductor should be non-NIL statement.

Steps to be followed for registering as a Deductor on TRACES:
1. Click on 'Register as New User' in TRACES home page
2. Select 'Type of User' as "Deductor".
3. Enter details from Step-1 to Step-4 and proceed.
4. Confirm details in confirmation screen.
5. On successful registration, activation link will be sent to registered email id and separate activation codes will be sent to registered email id and mobile number.
6. Click on activation link and enter User Id and activation codes.
7. After activation, user can login to TRACES.

Deductor should wait for 48 hours and after that again use forgot user ID option to reset user ID then activate the account to login.
Note: Deductor can reset password through Forgot user ID option.