In order to provide relief to small businessman, it is proposed to provide exemption to an individual and Hindu Undivided Family who receives less than Rs 5 lakh and furnishes PAN/Aadhaar
PAN will be generated automatically if a taxpayer uses Aadhaar for filing returns: CBDT
At present, providing father's name in the PAN application Forms (Form No.49A and Form No.49AA) is mandatory
A sharp jump in the number of individual PAN holders reveals India's demography and underlines new challenges
CBDT chairman said after the Centre announced to scrap high value currency notes in November last year, the number rose to 7.5 lakh
High-value transactions of more than Rs 50,000 and above require PAN details
Newly incorporated companies are getting Permanent Account Number (PAN) and Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN) in electronic form within a day. Till March end, 19,704 such companies have received PAN in a day of ministry of corporate affairs sending data of incorporation to the income tax department. The government hopes that the initiative will improve India's ranking in the World Bank's ease of doing report from the current position of 130th. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said it has tied up with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) under which companies can submit a common application form.Applicant companies submit a common application form SPICe (INC 32) on MCA portal and once the data of incorporation is sent to CBDT by the MCA, PAN and TAN are issued immediately without any further intervention of the applicant.In the month of March, 2017 alone, PAN was allotted within 4 hours to 95.63 per cent of total 10,894 newly incorporated companies. All such companies got ..
Tax department had in January asked banks, post offices and cooperative banks to document PAN
It will also identify records with errors or other defects for resubmission
According to the Government estimate, every year 2.5 crore people across the country apply for PAN cards
A platform called ITBA-PAN will help the taxman identify duplicate numbers every time a new application reaches it