Fincelo automates Indian TDS reconciliation through its Compliance Guardian agent, turning a messy, spreadsheet-heavy quarterly chore into a continuous, mostly-hands-off ledger process — while keeping a human on the genuine exceptions.
How Fincelo handles TDS reconciliation
1. Knows the expected TDS treatment upfront
Fincelo captures each customer's expected TDS treatment from the contract and SOW at onboarding — including the relevant Section 194J classification where it applies. That expected treatment becomes the baseline every payment is checked against. (Note: the customer deducts TDS, not you — so Fincelo's role is to know what should happen and catch when it doesn't, not to control the buyer's deduction.)
2. Recognises net-of-TDS payments correctly
When a customer pays an invoice short by exactly the withheld amount, most ERPs mark it "partially paid" and collections chases a customer who did nothing wrong. Fincelo recognises the shortfall as TDS, routes it to a TDS Receivable GL account, and marks the invoice settled — so AR stays accurate and no one gets chased over money the government is holding.
Fincelo imports Form 26AS and AIS data and auto-matches deductor entries — TAN → customer → invoice — instead of a human running quarterly VLOOKUPs against a government sheet with no invoice references.
4. Handles Form 16A
As customers issue quarterly Form 16A certificates, Fincelo parses the PDFs, verifies the certificate details, and attaches them to the matching ledger entries — so the credit trail is complete at filing time, not reconstructed under deadline.
5. Flags the exceptions a human should see
Short-deduction, over-deduction, or TDS that was withheld but never appears in 26AS — Fincelo flags each in real time and can draft a follow-up to the customer's finance team for a correction or a missing 16A, for your review before you send it. The agent does the matching; you decide on the mismatches.
The outcome
TDS reconciliation shifts from a quarterly scramble to a continuous pipeline — minimising lost tax credits, cutting manual ledger adjustments, and keeping your books reconciled and audit-ready — with your finance team spending time only on the handful of genuine mismatches, not the hundreds of routine matches.
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