Quarterly TDS Returns (24Q, 26Q, 27Q) in India
The quarterly statement of everything you withheld. 24Q covers salary, 26Q other resident payments and 27Q payments to non-residents — most companies file more than one in the same quarter.
3–7 business days
INR
What we will need from you
Upload these once. They are stored encrypted and reused across every service you buy from us.
From the company
The validated upload file (.fvu) generated by the Protean File Validation Utility from the quarterly statement prepared in the notified file format - furnished on a CD or pen drive when submitted to a TIN Facilitation Centre
Furnishing of quarterly TDS/TCS statements; procedure published by Protean eGov Technologies as the Income Tax Department's TIN managed-service providerPrepared in clean text ASCII format with 'txt' as the filename extension, then validated through the FVU.
Indicative — from Protean (the Income Tax Department's TIN operator), not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm it with the authority before you pay.Signed control chart in Form 27A, generated by the TDS/TCS File Validation Utility
Control chart accompanying a quarterly TDS/TCS statement; Protean e-TDS/e-TCS procedure
Indicative — from Protean (the Income Tax Department's TIN operator), not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm it with the authority before you pay.TAN of the deductor, and the PAN of every deductee, as data in the statement
Quarterly statement file formats published by Protean for Forms 24Q, 26Q, 27Q and 27EQ
Indicative — from tinpan.proteantech.in, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm it with the authority before you pay.
Cost breakdown
Our fee and the government’s are always separate lines. Government fees are passed through at exactly what the authority charges — we add nothing to them.
| Government fee for uploading quarterly TDS/TCS statements directly on the Income Tax e-filing portal | No statutory feeIndicative — from Protean (TIN) - e-TDS FAQs: Furnishing of TDS, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm the exact amount before you pay. |
| TIN-FC upload charge, statement with up to 100 deductee records (exclusive of GST)one line of this schedule appliesOnly if the statement is filed through a Protean TIN Facilitation Centre instead of the e-filing portal | ₹50Indicative — from Protean (TIN) - e-TDS FAQs: Furnishing of TDS, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm the exact amount before you pay. |
| TIN-FC upload charge, statement with 101 to 1000 deductee records (exclusive of GST)one line of this schedule appliesOnly if filed through a TIN-FC | ₹214Indicative — from Protean (TIN) - e-TDS FAQs: Furnishing of TDS, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm the exact amount before you pay. |
| TIN-FC upload charge, statement with more than 1000 deductee records (exclusive of GST)one line of this schedule appliesOnly if filed through a TIN-FC | ₹694Indicative — from Protean (TIN) - e-TDS FAQs: Furnishing of TDS, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm the exact amount before you pay. |
| Late fee for delayed TDS statement (s.234E of the 1961 Act), per day, capped at the TDS amountonly if it appliesOnly when the quarterly statement is filed after the due date | ₹200Indicative — from Protean (TIN) - e-TDS FAQs: Furnishing of TDS, not confirmed on a government portal. We confirm the exact amount before you pay. |
| Comriq professional feeper filing | ₹2,999 |
Read: "What are the charges for filing e-TDS/TCS return with TIN-FCs? You have to pay charges as mentioned below:... Upload charges (exclusive of GST)... Returns having up to 100 records ₹ 50.00 Returns having 101 to 1000 records ₹ 213.60 Returns having more than 1000 records ₹ 694.20" Nil e-filing-portal line rests on IndiaFilings: 'Online (Income Tax Portal / TRACES) - Any number of records - No government fee - Free of charge'; the e-filing TDS Compliance FAQs and Form 140 user manual (incometax.gov.in) mention no fee. IndiaFilings quotes different TIN-FC slabs (Rs 45/180/630 + 18% GST); the operator's own page is preferred. s.234E line: IndiaFilings 'a late filing fee of Rs. 200 per day is levied for every day of delay', LegalWiz '₹200 per day under Section 234E, capped at the TDS amount'. The Income-tax Act 2025 (in force 1 April 2026) renumbers this provision; not read at source.
These are the authority’s published lines. Which of them apply depends on your filing — a schedule by headcount, capital or entity type is one line, not all of them — and the applicable line is confirmed before payment, at cost.
How it runs
You will see these exact stages update in your client portal as we progress.
Records Collected
Period records received and reconciled.
Return Prepared
Return prepared and sent to you to approve.
Filed
Acknowledgement delivered to your portal.
What this costs, in full
- Comriq professional feeper filing
₹2,999₹2,699- Government fee
- ₹50–₹694.20 by schedule — 4 published lines; the line that applies to you is confirmed before payment, at cost.+ 1 fee that applies only in some cases — listed in the cost breakdown above, not in this figure.
Total from
₹3,049₹2,749
Our fee plus the lowest line of the authority's schedule. The line that applies to you is confirmed before payment.
Launch pricing · 10% off our fee10% off our professional fee until 31 December 2026. Government fees are charged at cost and are never discounted — we collect them on the authority's behalf and cannot charge less than it does.
Government fees are charged at cost, exactly as the authority bills them — we add nothing to them. Where the authority publishes no figure, or publishes a schedule, we confirm the exact amount before you pay, so this total is a minimum: we never substitute a plausible number.
This price is exclusive of GST. GST at 18% is added at checkout on our professional fee. Government fees are collected at cost on your behalf and are not taxed. Clients outside India are zero-rated.
Indicative guidance — confirmed before payment
Requirements and statutory fees are set by Income Tax Department, Government of India and change without notice. This page is general information, not legal or tax advice. Your engagement letter and quote are the binding documents.