Form 16 is a certificate issued by employers, giving details of employees' TDS (tax deducted at source) usually by mid June and is used in filing I-T returns.
In order to check the rampant use of black money in immovable property transactions, the government of India has introduced a law, wherein, the purchaser of a property has to deduct tax at source, R
Where the original TDS certificate is lost, the employee can approach the employer for issue of a duplicate TDS certificate.