How to Download TDS Certificate Form 131 from TRACES | New Form 16A Process 2026-27

How to Download Form 131 (New Form 16A) on TRACES Portal | Step-by-Step Guide ‪@cadeveshthakur‬ Form 16A is officially replaced by Form 131. In this complete, step-by-step masterclass, learn the entire 5-stage process to request, download, and convert your TDS certificates into digitally signed PDFs on the new TRACES portal. Whether you need certificates for a single PAN or bulk deductors, this video covers everything—including return verification, zip password unlocking, utility troubleshooting, and DSC setup. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS (5 KEY STAGES): ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Stage 1: Checking TDS Return processing status (Form 140) before raising requests. • Stage 2: Submitting Form 131 requests on the new TRACES portal (Single PAN, Bulk PAN, or All PANs). • Stage 3: Downloading requested zip files within the 7-day validity window. • Stage 4: Setting up TRACES PDF Generation Utility & resolving DLL runtime errors. • Stage 5: Unlocking zip files and generating digitally signed PDFs using a USB Token or Soft Token DSC. • Plus: Verifying details on generated Form 131 & 5 golden rules for error-free TDS compliance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS & CHAPTERS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Introduction: Form 16A is now Form 131 01:03 - 5 Stages of Downloading Form 131 02:24 - Login to New TRACES Portal & Dashboard Tour 03:29 - Check TDS Return Processing Status (Form 140) 06:06 - How to Request Form 131 on TRACES 07:25 - Single PAN vs Bulk PAN vs All PANs Selection 08:08 - How to Download Zip File (Important 7-Day Validity) 09:42 - Download TRACES PDF Generation Utility 10:41 - How to Extract & Run Utility Without DLL Errors 12:05 - Utility Form Fields & Zip File Password 13:08 - With DSC vs Without DSC Explained 14:08 - How to Sign Using USB Token / Soft Token 15:57 - Generating Digitally Signed Form 131 PDFs 17:23 - Verifying Details on Form 131 18:10 - 5 Golden Rules & Summary ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 HELPFUL RESOURCES: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • How to File TDS Return (Form 140) Free: [   • No RPU Needed: How to File TDS Return Onli...  ] • Official TRACES Portal: https://www.tdscpc.gov.in If this step-by-step walkthrough saved you time and resolved your utility errors, please Like, Share, and Subscribe to CA Devesh Thakur for regular updates on Income Tax, TDS, and GST compliance! #Form131 #Form16A #TRACES #TDS #IncomeTax #CADeveshThakur #TDSCertificate #Form140 #DigitalSignature 🌐 Connect Everywhere: 📌 Instagram → [  / cadeveshthakur.official  ] 📌 YouTube → [   / @cadeveshthakur  ] 📌 LinkedIn → [  / cadeveshthakur  ] 📌 Facebook → [  / cadevesh  ] 📌 X (Twitter) → [https://x.com/cadeveshthakur] 📌 Pinterest → [  / cadevesht  ] 📌 Threads → [https://www.threads.com/@cadeveshthak...] 📌 WhatsApp Channel → [https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6G...] 🔔 Subscribe & Follow to stay ahead in GST, Income Tax & Finance. Disclaimer: The content shared on this channel is purely for educational purposes. As a Chartered Accountant, I strive to provide accurate and insightful information related to GST, income tax, accounting, and tax planning. However, please note that the content should not be considered as professional advice or a substitute for personalized consultation.