Check if your PAN is active or wrongfully deactivated by Income Tax. How to re-activate PAN?

Know if your PAN is active or wrongfully deactivated. How to reactivate your PAN if wrongly deactivated/cancelled by Income Tax Department

Recently Income Tax Department has announced deactivation of approx 12 lakhs PAN which were found to be duplicate or fake.

How to check if your PAN is active or deactivated ?

If you have any reason to believe that your PAN might have been deactivated or if you just want to make sure that your PAN is active, the following steps would show the status of your PAN:

1. Go to Income Tax E-filing website and click on “Know Your PAN“

2. Fill out all the fields in the form. Please note that you can give any mobile number and it need not be one mentioned in your return of income or otherwise. Click on Submit

3. In the next window, fill out the OTP received on the mobile number provided in step 2 above

Click “Validate”

4. If your PAN is active, the following window will appear

The Status of the PAN shall be displayed under the heading “Remarks”

How to re-activate your PAN if it has been deactivated?

In case, your PAN has been wrogly deactivated, write to your jurisdictional Assessing officer along with an Indemnity Bond as under:

INDEMNITY BOND

This bond of indemnity is made this ……. day of …………. in favour of Government of India (Department of Finance) i.e. Income Tax Department by Mr. /Mrs./Ms ………………………………………..(Name of the Indemnifier) Son of/Daughter of /Wife of  …………………………………………… on behalf of self or

M/s ………………………………………
PAN ……………………………………..
Status ……………………………………

WHEREAS This is to undertake:

1. That I/the firm/company is the holder of the PAN ……………… (Copy attached)

2. That I/the firm/company had filed my/its Income tax Return with the PAN ……………….. for the Assessment Year(s) ……………………. (copies attached)

3. That I/the firm/company am/is regularly assessed in your ward/jurisdiction with PAN ……………

4. That to the best of my knowledge and belief I/the firm/company have only one PAN namely ……………

5. That if any other PAN stands allotted to me/the firm/company, I have no objection if the same is cancelled.

The executor of this bond undertake to indemnify the government of India (Ministry of Finance) and keep it indemnified against all costs, damages, charges and expenses for re-activation of the PAN as requested

In witness where of this bond is executed today this ……………………(Date)

………………………………
(Name and capacity of the declarant with complete address)

Witness:
………………………………

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