Summary: Made an error while making TDS portal? Don’t worry, you can easily correct your TDS challan online in a few simple steps.
How to Edit the TDS Challan Details Paid Online

There is a possibility that while making TDS payments to the government, you unknowingly end up committing errors in the assessment year or head code. Even a minor error there may cost you significant tax credits. However, you don’t have to worry much should you get into a situation like this.
Tax department realises that such incidents can occur and hence it has kept a provision in place wherein you can correct certain errors in your TDS challan. You can do this online, offline (for physical challans) or through an assessing officer.

So if somehow you happened a make an inadvertent error during online TDS payment, here are the steps you can follow to correct the issue.

Step 1:
Log on to the TRACES website and log in using your user ID, password and the TAN.

Step 2:
Once you’re logged in, find Request for OLTAS (Online Tax Accounting System) Challan Correction under the tab Statements/Payments, and select it to proceed to the checklist page.

Step 3:
Note that the correction requests have to be submitted only for the challans which meet the below conditions listed on the TRACES portal:

• Your assessing officer is not giving credit of the challan manually for which you’re submitting the challan.
• There is no challan correction in progress through TRACES or challan correction in the TDS/TCS statement through NSDL.
• No OLTAS challan correction from Assessing Officer is in progress.
• No refund request should be initiated against OLTAS challan for which you are submitting the challan correction from the website.
• Your assessing officer should not have used the challan for tagging interest/fees for which you are submitting the challan correction from the website.

Step 4:
You can only update the financial year, major head, minor head and section code for the TDS challan. At present, you are not authorised to correct TAN or PAN from your end. This access is going to be introduced in near future. For now, you’ll have to raise the request via your assessing officer to update these details.
So, go ahead and select Financial Year/Major Head/Minor Head/Section Code, and click proceed.

Step 5:

For the challan which you need to make the correction in, enter BSR code, deposit date, challan serial and challan amount. Make sure these details are entered correctly otherwise you’ll get an error message mentioning the unavailability of data.

Step 6:
Update the fields with the correct values and click submit to go to the verification page.

Step 7:
After submitting the new values, you’ll see the updates for verification on the portal. Review the details to check if they are correct. If needed, use back or cancel buttons to make the required edits. After you’ve ascertained that the details are correct and it requires no other changes, click on confirm to proceed to final submission.

Step 8:
Once the filing is submitted successfully, there will be a confirmation message displayed on the portal, along with the request number. You can use this number to track and see the status of your correction request.
So next time there is an error in your TDS challan, you know you only have to follow a few steps to correct the issue. And if you have any problem regarding the TDS payments, You can refer to sources like Alankit.com to find guidance on how to make TDS challan corrections.