A TDS return stands on the challan. If the BSR code, the deposit date and the challan serial number match what the bank reported, the deduction reaches the deductee's Form 26AS and the quarter closes quietly. One wrong digit and the same money sits unmatched, your Hinjawadi engineer or your Baner supplier cannot claim credit, and you spend the next month filing a correction. LegalX India prepares and files quarterly TDS statements for Pune deductors from ₹999, usually within 3 to 5 working days of complete data.
Does TDS return filing apply to your Pune business?
Deduction comes first and the statement follows it. You are a deductor if you run a company or an LLP, if you are a firm or an individual whose accounts were audited last year, or if you pay salary above the basic exemption limit. Once you hold a TAN and have deducted in a quarter, that quarter needs a statement even when the amount is small.
A Pune reader usually arrives here by one of three routes. Salary TDS begins when the first employee crosses the limit. Contractor and professional fee deductions begin with the first invoice from an agency, an auditor or a design consultant. Rent deductions begin once the yearly rent on your premises crosses the statutory threshold, which is where a leased Kharadi or Hinjawadi office normally lands.
Rates by section and by payment type sit in the national TDS return filing guide. We apply them against your own ledger instead of asking you to read a rate chart.
What does a missed quarter cost a Pune deductor?
The fee runs by the day, not by the return. Section 234E puts ₹200 on every day between the due date and the day you actually file, and it stops only once it equals the tax reported in that statement. A modest quarter can end up paying for its own tax twice over.
Two other costs sit behind that one. Where the deducted amount reached the government after its date, interest of 1.5 per cent a month attaches, and a part of a month counts as a whole one. Section 271H keeps a separate penalty of ₹10,000 to ₹1,00,000 in reserve for a statement never filed, or filed with wrong particulars.
The quieter cost is the default notice. An incorrect PAN, or a challan that will not match, throws up a short deduction or short payment demand on TRACES, and the vendor normally reaches you about it before the department does.
Which dates govern your TDS quarter?
Four dates carry the year, and depositing is a separate duty inside each one.
| Quarter and period | Statement due | Deposits due inside it |
|---|---|---|
| April to June | 31 July | 7 May, 7 June, 7 July |
| July to September | 31 October | 7 August, 7 September, 7 October |
| October to December | 31 January | 7 November, 7 December, 7 January |
| January to March | 31 May | 7 February, 7 March, 30 April |
March is the exception in that last column, because tax deducted in March waits until 30 April instead of the 7th. Reading the two columns together is the whole point. A statement filed on the day it fell due still carries a default when the money went in late, and an early challan rescues nothing once the filing date has gone.
Where does the Maharashtra layer sit in the same payroll run?
TDS is central law and none of it bends because your office sits in Pune. What is local is everything else the same payroll and vendor data has to feed.
Maharashtra levies profession tax under the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975, a state levy that has nothing to do with your TAN.
An employer holds PTRC for it. Above the slab threshold the salary deduction is ₹200 in each month and ₹300 in February, and it is reported in the PTRC return on mahagst.gov.in rather than in Form 24Q. Since 1 April 2023 a woman earning up to ₹25,000 a month sits outside that deduction altogether, and payroll software brought in from another state gets that line wrong more often than any other. How often you file the PTRC return depends on your previous year's profession tax liability, and the department publishes the periodicity list for each financial year. Those due dates moved fifteen days earlier in 2026, under a Finance Department notification of 28 February 2026.
Enrolment is the second certificate and it belongs to the entity itself. A company, an LLP, a GST registered person and every director in their own name each carry PTEC at ₹2,500 for the year, and 31 March is the date sitting on it, with no return to file. Lower Schedule I rates reach some other classes, so we read the entry that catches you rather than quoting one figure to everybody.
Maharashtra keeps a dedicated Profession Tax Office in six locations only, Pune among them, under the Additional Commissioner of State Tax, Zone 2, Pune. Enrolment, payment and downloads happen online, so that office matters when a notice, a hearing or a cancellation comes up, not for the routine quarter.
What does the quarter cost, and what do we need from you?
A standard quarterly statement starts at ₹999 and takes 3 to 5 days from the point your data is complete. Several TANs, a Form 27Q for payments to non residents, or a backlog of corrections change the scope, and we quote that before any work starts.
What we ask you to send:
- Your TAN and its portal credentials, so nothing is filed under an authorised signatory who left two years ago
- Challan details for the quarter, meaning BSR code, deposit date, serial number and amount, exactly as the bank recorded them
- The deductee schedule carrying PAN, section, gross payment and tax deducted against every single row
- Salary annexures for Form 24Q, including exemptions claimed and the tax regime each employee has chosen
- Your registered leave and licence agreement and the licensor's PAN wherever you deduct on office rent
- Any lower deduction certificate a vendor holds, which we map to that vendor's rows before validation
One free check before you send anything. A Maharashtra vendor's GSTIN opens with state code 27 and carries their PAN in its middle ten characters, so reading the invoice against your master data catches a keying error while it is still cheap.
Which Pune businesses file a statement every quarter?
- A SaaS product company in Hinjawadi filing Form 24Q for its engineering payroll and Form 26Q for auditors, recruiters and office rent in the same quarter
- A consumer brand in Baner deducting on agency retainers, photographers and warehousing, and adding Form 27Q in the quarter it pays an overseas platform
- A firm whose accounts were audited last year, which became a deductor on the first day of this financial year and rarely notices in time
- An employer that crossed into salary TDS halfway through the year and now has one quarter of catching up to do
How we run your quarter
- We collect challans, the deductee schedule and the payroll file against a checklist built for your sections, not a generic document list
- We reconcile each challan with what is actually reflected against your TAN and flag a short payment before it hardens into a demand
- We validate PANs, apply the right section and rate to every row, and generate the return file through the department's own utility
- We upload the statement under your TAN, confirm acceptance and send you the token number the same working day
- We pull Form 16 or Form 16A once processing finishes, and put your next TDS date, your PTRC return and the 31 March PTEC date on one calendar
What does a CA and CS team catch in your TDS quarter?
We are a CA and CS team that files returns rather than a data entry desk. Our Pune office is at Yashwant Nagar, Near Bharatiya Samajseva, Yerwada, Pune 411006, and the whole engagement runs online, so you send data and receive an acknowledgment. More than 15,000 businesses have worked with LegalX India, and the service is rated 4.8 on Google.
Two things we do differently on a Pune file. We read the state side of your payroll in the same pass, because an employer who gets Form 24Q right and forgets the PTRC return has closed only half the quarter. And we tell you which rows are genuinely exposed instead of quoting the maximum penalty at you. A callback reaches you within 30 minutes, and the first thing we read is the last quarter you filed.