PAN Card Holders ALERT! Know what NUMBER signifies; holds THIS IMPORTANT information for Income Tax Department

There is an important information for all the PAN Card holders. Every PAN card contains a permanent account number. This number holds lots of information which is important for the Income Tax Department.

Keeping this in mind, the department issues PAN card to every person. However, this information is not available to the PAN card holder.

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PAN card number is a 10 digit special number, which comes in the form of a laminated card. It is issued by the Income Tax Department to those who apply for a PAN card.

What is the meaning of 10 numbers mentioned on PAN card?

As per the information provided by the Income Tax Department, out of the first five characters, the first three characters represent the alphabetic series running from AAA to ZZZ.

The fourth character of PAN represents the status of the PAN holder.

"P" stands for Individual

"C" stands for Company

"H" stands for Hindu Undivided Family (HUF)

"A" stands for Association of Persons (AOP)

"B" stands for Body of Individuals (BOI)

"G" stands for Government Agency

"J" stands for Artificial Juridical Person

"L" stands for Local Authority

"F" stands for Firm/ Limited Liability Partnership

"T" stands for Trust

Fifth character of PAN represents the first character of the PAN holder's last name/surname in case of an individual. In case of non-individual PAN holders fifth character represents the first character of PAN holder's name.

Next four characters are sequential numbers running from 0001 to 9999. Last character, i.e., the tenth character is an alphabetic check digit.

Utility of PAN

PAN enables the department to identify/ link all transactions of the PAN holder with the department. These transactions include tax payments, TDS/TCS credits, returns of income, specified transactions, correspondence etc, and so on.

It facilitates easy retrieval of information of PAN holder and matching of various investments, borrowings and other business activities of PAN holder.