Form 16 Reader
Open your Form 16 PDF in the browser to see salary, deductions, tax, quarterly TDS, the regime used and what to check in AIS / 26AS. Nothing is uploaded.
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The Form 16 Reader opens your Form 16 PDF (Part A and Part B) inside your browser and lays out the figures: employer and TAN, gross salary, exemptions under section 10, standard deduction, Chapter VI-A deductions, taxable income, tax and the TDS deducted in each quarter. It also checks the arithmetic on the certificate, shows the tax regime your employer applied, indicates the ITR form that is likely to fit and lists what to compare with your AIS and Form 26AS. The file is not uploaded anywhere.
Use the Form 16 Reader
The password is set by your employer or payroll provider and is usually given in the email that came with the Form 16. A common pattern is your PAN in lower case followed by your date of birth (for example DDMMYYYY), but formats differ.
Your Form 16 at a glance
Select your Form 16 PDF to see the summary here.
Select the Form 16 your employer gave you. Part A (the TDS summary generated from TRACES) and Part B (the salary and tax annexure) can be one PDF or two; select both together if they are separate. The reader is built for the standard Form 16 layout under the Income-tax Rules, 1962. Certificates designed differently by payroll software, or scanned copies, may be read only partly.
What Form 16 contains
Part A is the certificate of tax deducted at source on salary. It is generated by the employer from the TRACES portal and shows the employer's name, TAN and PAN, your PAN, the assessment year, and the salary paid and tax deducted and deposited in each quarter.
Part B is the annexure prepared by the employer with the salary break-up: salary, perquisites and profits in lieu of salary under section 17, exemptions under section 10, deductions under section 16, other income you reported, Chapter VI-A deductions, the tax computed and relief under section 89.
Form 16 shows what the employer considered for TDS. Your return must also include income the employer did not know about, such as bank interest, dividends and capital gains, which usually appear in the Annual Information Statement (AIS). Use the AIS / 26AS mismatch checker and the ITR form selector for the next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Due in the next 30 days
Income tax- TDS / TCS deposit (e-Pay Tax, Challan ITNS 281) for October
- ITR Filing (taxpayers under audit, companies)
- ITR Filing (international / specified domestic TP)
Full compliance calendar → Statutory dates, which can be extended by notification. General information only.