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Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
01-August-2017 17:46 IST
Mandating Aadhaar linkage to PAN cards
Permanent Account Number (PAN) is the key identifier of taxable entity
and aggregator of all financial transactions undertaken by one person. One PAN
for one person is the guiding principle for allotment of PAN. However, for achieving
the objective of one PAN to one assessee it is required to maintain uniqueness
of PAN. The uniqueness of PAN is achieved by conducting a de-duplication check
on all already existing allotted PAN against the data furnished by new
applicant. Under the existing system of PAN only demographic data is captured.
Some instances are found where multiple PANs have been allotted to one person
or one PAN has been allotted to multiple persons despite the application of
de-duplication process based on demographic data. Linkage of Aadhaar number
into PAN database will allow a robust way of de-duplication as Aadhaar number
is based on biometric attributes of finger prints and iris images. Further
seeding of Aadhaar will allow the Income-tax Department to weed out any
undetected duplicate PANs. It will also facilitate resolution of cases of one
PAN allotted to multiple persons.
As on 27.7.2017, 11,44,211 PANs have been identified and deleted or de-activated in cases where multiple PANs were found allotted to one person. Similarly, as on 27.7.2017, 1,566 PANs have been identified as ‘Fake’ which were allotted to either non-existent person or in the names of persons with false identities. In this regard, the PAN service provider carries out onsite verification of PAN applications to verify identity and addresses of the applicant and share the report of such verification to the concerned Assessing Officer. On receipt of such report the assessing officer also conducts enquires and mark the PAN as “Fake”. If information of allotment of more than one PAN is received, the facility to delete or de-activate the PAN is available with the Assessing Officer through application software. Further, during 2004 to 2007, an exercise for de-duplication of PAN was conducted in the Department to identify probable duplicate PANs, which were consequently deleted or de-activated by the concerned assessing officers after examinations.
This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Finance in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
As on 27.7.2017, 11,44,211 PANs have been identified and deleted or de-activated in cases where multiple PANs were found allotted to one person. Similarly, as on 27.7.2017, 1,566 PANs have been identified as ‘Fake’ which were allotted to either non-existent person or in the names of persons with false identities. In this regard, the PAN service provider carries out onsite verification of PAN applications to verify identity and addresses of the applicant and share the report of such verification to the concerned Assessing Officer. On receipt of such report the assessing officer also conducts enquires and mark the PAN as “Fake”. If information of allotment of more than one PAN is received, the facility to delete or de-activate the PAN is available with the Assessing Officer through application software. Further, during 2004 to 2007, an exercise for de-duplication of PAN was conducted in the Department to identify probable duplicate PANs, which were consequently deleted or de-activated by the concerned assessing officers after examinations.
This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Finance in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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