No Need to Submit Additional Documents for PAN Card, Aadhaar is sufficient to apply

No Need to Submit Additional Documents for PAN Card, Aadhaar is sufficient to apply

No Need to Submit Additional Documents for applying PAN Card, only Aadhaar is sufficient to get PAN Number.

Getting PAN Card is now very easy with Aadhaar Card. If any one has Aadhaar Card, he can get PAN Card Number without submitting any additional documents.

An important amendment made in the Income Tax Rule 114 with effect from 1.9.2019.

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As per the notification issued by the CBDT on 30.8.2019,

“(1A) Any person, who has not been allotted a permanent account number but possesses the Aadhaar number and has furnished or intimated or quoted his Aadhaar number in lieu of the permanent account number in accordance with sub-section (5E) of section 139A, shall be deemed to have applied for allotment of permanent account number and he shall not be required to apply or submit any documents under this rule.

(1B) Any person, who has not been allotted a permanent account number but possesses the Aadhaar number may apply for allotment of the permanent account number under sub-section (1) or sub- section (1A) or sub-section (3) of section 139A to the authorities mentioned in sub-rule (2) by intimating his Aadhaar number and he shall not be required to apply or submit any documents under this rule.

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(1C) The Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or Director General of Income-tax (Systems) shall on receipt of information under sub-rule (1A) or sub-rule (1B), as the case may be, authenticate the Aadhaar number for that purpose.”;

(ii) after sub-rule (6), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:

“(7) The Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or Director General of Income-tax (Systems) shall lay down the formats and standards along with procedure for,

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(a) furnishing or intimation or quoting of Aadhaar number under sub-rule (1A); or

(b) intimation of Aadhaar number under sub-rule (1B); or

(c) authentication of Aadhaar number under sub-rule (1C); or

(d) obtaining demographic information of an individual from the Unique Identification Authority of India,

for ensuring secure capture and transmission of data and shall also be responsible for evolving and implementing appropriate security, archival and retrieval policies in relation to furnishing or intimation or quoting or authentication of Aadhaar number or obtaining of demographic information of an individual from the Unique Identification Authority of India, for allotment of permanent account number and issue thereof.”.

[Notification No. 59/2019/F. No. 370142/13/2019-TPL]

ANKUR GOYAL, Under Secy.

Note : (1) The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 969 (E), dated the 26th March, 1962 and were last amended by the Income-tax (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2019 vide notification No. G.S.R. 375(E), dated the 22nd May, 2019.

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