Did your clients actually deduct what they said?

The CSV file itself is never uploaded — it is parsed and matched entirely in your browser, and refreshing the page clears everything. None of your figures are stored at any point. Downloading is the one place anything leaves your machine: if you generate the reconciliation statement or a dispute letter, the figures for that document are sent to our server to typeset the PDF, which is returned to you immediately and never saved. Separately, we count that a document was generated — which kind, and how many — with no account, no IP address and nothing from the document itself, so we can tell whether this tool gets used at all.

That is your money, and until the deductor fixes it you cannot claim it — under Section 199 read with Rule 37BA, credit is granted on the basis of the deductor’s own Form 26Q statement, however complete your records are. The remedy is a correction statement filed by that client. This tool drafts the letter asking for one: it cites the provisions that oblige them, itemises the entries in dispute, and asks for the corresponding Form 16A. Send it to their accounts contact; most gaps turn out to be an unfiled 26Q rather than anything deliberate.

Form 26AS is downloaded from the income-tax e-filing portal, in the tax-credit / annual information area — which opens the TRACES taxpayer view. Select the financial year and export the statement as CSV or text; the section you want is Part A, TDS on payments other than salary. (Portal route as of August 2026. For income earned on or after 1 April 2026 this statement is renamed Form 168.)

Matching is by client name similarity + amount, not an exact ledger link. A client name spelled differently in your list vs. your 26AS (e.g. "Acme" vs "Acme Technologies Pvt Ltd") can still match if the names are close enough — but very different spellings, or a real short-deduction, will both show as a mismatch. Check the actual numbers before assuming an error.

A deduction appears in your 26AS from a client you didn’t add to your invoice list here. Either you forgot to include that invoice, or the deductor name in 26AS doesn’t match closely enough to what you typed — add it manually to compare.

This free tool caps at 20 rows to keep it quick for a spot-check. HourSlip’s in-app TDS tracker reconciles every invoice you raise automatically, all year, with no row limit.