How to do PAN Card Verification Online in F.Y 2021-22

‘Know your PAN’ was a service initiated by the Income Tax Department to retrieve information related to PAN. This service comes in handy for situations like losing a PAN card, or when you need your PAN number urgently but the information is unavailable. Or cases when you would want to cross-check the address registered against your PAN. For all these situations, ‘Know your PAN’ acted as a savior, for you could retrieve all the information by entering your

• Date of birth,
• Full name, and
• Registered mobile number.

However, this facility was being misused and it posed a threat to privacy. Accessing someone’s PAN information became easy through the ‘trial and run’ method. To avoid further frauds and misuse of the government facility, the Income Tax department discontinued ‘Know your PAN’ service and instead started ‘Verify your PAN service’. This is the new service started by the Income Tax Department through which you can verify your PAN credentials.

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Verify your PAN:

You can use this service to cross-check the information saved in the I-T department database related to your PAN. We have 3 options available to verify the PAN Card Online. Follow the steps mentioned below in an orderly manner:

• Click on the following link to open the desired portal. The link is: https://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/tax-services/online-pan-verification.aspx

Once you have opened the link, a window similar to this should appear on your computer screens:

Step 1: Click on the PAN Verification in the navigation bar, then select the link
https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/ in the step 1, now you will see the pop up window in the portal.

Click yes

Step 2: Click on the verify Pan in the left hand side navigation bar

Step 3: Filled out your PAN Card, Full name and date of birth and registered mobile number

Step 4: After filling the PAN Card details, an OTP would be sent to your registered mobile number, Please enter the OTP and validate the PAN card

Submit the form, further your current PAN status will be displayed. If the PAN is active and the information already registered with the database, a screen similar to this will be displayed to you.

Once a message like this appears, be assured that your PAN is active and your information is up-to-date in the Income Tax department database.

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What are the different types of Online PAN Verification?

Online verification of PAN is of following three types-

• File-Based
• Screen Based
• Software Based

1. File-Based Verification

• Under this firstly you will have to login
• Here you can upload a file containing a maximum of 1000 PAN cards
• At last, you will get the details of the PAN on the screen.

2. Screen Based Verification

• Every user who is willing to verify a PAN card, will have to login first.
• Numbers of PAN card details that can be given under this is limited to 5 screens
• Now details of PAN is visible on your screen

3. Software Based Verification

Under it, PAN can be verified online by a verification site through a software application.

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How to do bulk PAN verification?

PAN bulk verification can be divided into three types. So for more clarification, we have described it in detail-

1. Verification of PAN in Bulk- For Government- Non-Government Agencies

Under it, you will need to perform the following steps-

Step1: Register yourself as the agency of bulk verification by visiting at www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in

Step2: Now, Click on the Bulk PAN Query tab and click on Upload Query, For Bulk PAN Query Template is supported in the CSV format:You can enter up to 100 entries with the following details– PAN Card Number, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Date of Birth/Incorporation/Formation (DD-MMM-YYYY), Gender, and Name of Organization. On successful validation, generate a JSON.

Step3: Upload your query in the specified format mentioned and hit the button on submit

Step4: You will get a token number on the submission part

Here you can see the status of PAN on the display, uploaded by the query system.
Online PAN Verification on ‘User-Pays’ Model

Step 5: Once you upload the file , a token number is generated. A success message is displayed on the screen along with the Transaction ID and a Token Number. Make sure you noted down the Transaction ID and Token Number for future reference. You will also receive a confirmation message on your email ID registered on the e-Filing portal.

Under this, verification can be done through file-based and software based or screen based. It depends on the choice of the user. Although this facility is chargeable on an annual basis. Registration under this costs to Rs.12000/- plus GST

How to view previous Token Details?

Firstly check if you are allowed to use this facility provided by the department. If yes, then follow the steps mentioned below.

Step 1: To view the details and status of previous tokens generated, click Previous Token Details, On the screen you are able to see the status of the bulk summary of the token and query processed. You can see the status of the processed queries and pending queries.

You can select the type of query you want to upload, at the bottom left you can filter your query.You can also download the file by clicking the download icon at the right hand side.

The uploaded bulk PAN / TAN query will be verified with the details in the CBN database.

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