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.
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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.
Validate a Form 16 against the TDS records it claims to reflect.
Figures are checked against the source, not just read.
Employer, tenure year and pay from one document.
Where the Form 16 Verification API is typically called, and what it settles there.
Verify previous employer and salary claims.
Income proof with fraud control.
Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.
Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.
Form 16 PDF as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.
emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.
A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.
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FAQ
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.
Usually called with the Form 16 Verification API, on the same key.
Workforce & Assets
Verify declared income from tax filings and salary credits with the person's consent.
Workforce & Assets
Retrieve a candidate's employment history from provident fund records using their UAN.
Documents & Biometrics
Detect edited, forged or template-generated documents before you trust their contents.
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