TRACES Registration

[Himanshu Agarwal]

I received a TAN number recently and want to create account on Traces to file return but while registration it shows

'You can NOT register on TRACES at present due to one of the reasons

i. You have not filed any statement for the mentioned TAN OR

ii. All the statements filed for Financial Year 2009-10 and onwards are in cancelled state OR

iii. All the statements filed for Financial Year 2009-10 and onwards are NIL Statements (having ALL challans with amount=0)'

So should i need to file a return manually first for registration? Or what is the procedure?
 

AI Summary

New TAN Holder Faces TRACES Registration Error; Advised to File NIL Return via Third Party and Retry in 7-10 Days. An individual recently received a TAN number and attempted to register on the TRACES portal to file a return but encountered an error. The error message indicated possible reasons such as not filing any statements, having all statements canceled, or all statements being NIL. One respondent suggested approaching jurisdictional authorities, while another advised filing at least one NIL return through a third party and waiting 7-10 days before attempting registration again. A follow-up question was raised about the feasibility of this suggestion.