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ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API

Send a PAN and learn whether the deductee has filed income-tax returns for the relevant years, so your payables team applies the right TDS rate and avoids penalties.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/tds-206-compliance
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • Vendor PAN*
    • Financial year
  2. Profiden 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

    • Specified person (higher TDS applies)
    • PAN status
    • Aadhaar seeding status
    • Financial year checked
tds-206-compliance Full reference

What the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API does

The API returns the specified-person flag for the current financial year together with the PAN status and Aadhaar seeding, the three things a finance team needs before releasing a vendor payment.

Benefits of the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API

Check whether a vendor is a "specified person" for higher TDS under section 206AB / 206CCA.

Right rate, first time

No more manual portal checks per vendor per year.

Bulk-friendly

Re-run your whole vendor master at the start of each year.

Use cases

ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API use cases

Where the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Accounts payable

Compliance check before every new vendor is paid.

Payroll and contractor payouts

Apply the correct TDS to consultants.

How the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API works

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

01

Authenticate

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

02

Send the inputs

Vendor PAN as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

03

We verify at source

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

04

Act on the result

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

Built for the DPDP Act 2023

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

Encryption in transit and at rest
Data processed in India
Per-request audit trail
Masked identifiers in responses

ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API to their integration.

The rule looks at the return filing for the year preceding the relevant year; the response names the year assessed.

Related APIs

APIs that usually run alongside the ITR Filing Status (Section 206AB) API, on the same key.

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