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Form 16 Verification API

Read a Form 16, check its certificate number and TDS figures against the tax department's records for that PAN and TAN, and return whether the document is genuine and the salary figures it certifies.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/form-16-verification
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Form 16 PDF*
    • Employee PAN
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    Authoritative source

  4. You receive

    • Certificate genuine
    • Employer name
    • Employer TAN
    • Assessment year
    • Gross salary
    • TDS deducted
    • Discrepancies
form-16-verification Full reference
Overview

What the Form 16 Verification API does

Upload the Form 16 PDF. The API extracts the employer TAN, employee PAN, assessment year and TDS amounts, then verifies the certificate against the TRACES record and reports discrepancies.

Benefits

Why teams use the Form 16 Verification API

Validate a Form 16 against the TDS records it claims to reflect.

Catches edited PDFs

Figures are checked against the source, not just read.

Employment and salary in one

Employer, tenure year and pay from one document.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the Form 16 Verification API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Employment screening

Verify previous employer and salary claims.

Salaried lending

Income proof with fraud control.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    Form 16 PDF as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

Form 16 Verification API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Form 16 Verification API to their integration.

The employee supplies the document; the TRACES check uses the certificate number on it. No OTP is needed.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the Form 16 Verification API, on the same key.

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