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FM launches facility of Instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC

Government of India 
Ministry of Finance 
Department of Revenue 
Central Board of Direct Taxes 

New Delhi, 28th May, 2020 

PRESS RELEASE 

FM launches facility of Instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC 

In line with the announcement made in the Union Budget, Hon’ble Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman formally launched the facility for instant allotment of PAN (on near to real time basis) today on 28th May, 2020. This facility is now available for those PAN applicants who possess a valid Aadhaar number and have a mobile number registered with Aadhaar. The allotment process is paperless and an electronic PAN (e-PAN) is issued to the applicants free of cost. 

It may be recalled that in the Union Budget, 2020, the Hon’ble FM had announced to launch instant PAN facility shortly. In para 129 of the Budget Speech, the FM had stated, “In the last Budget, I had introduced the interchangeability of PAN and Aadhaar for which necessary rules were already notified. In order to further ease the process of allotment of PAN, soon we will launch a system under which PAN shall be instantly allotted online on the basis of Aadhaar without any requirement for filling up of detailed application form.” 

The facility of instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC has been launched formally by the Hon’ble FM today, however its ‘Beta version’ on trial basis was started on 12th Feb 2020 on the e-filing website of Income Tax Department. Since then onwards 6,77,680 instant PANs have been allotted with a turnaround time of about 10 minutes, till 25th May 2020. 

It may also be noted that as on 25.05.2020, a total of 50.52 crore PANs have been allotted to the taxpayers, out of which, around 49.39 crore are allotted to the individuals and more than 32.17crore are seeded with Aadhaar so far. 

The process of applying for instant PAN is very simple. The instant PAN applicant is required to access the e-filing website of the Income Tax Department to provide her/his valid Aadhaar number and then submit the OTP received on her/his Aadhaar registered mobile number. On successful completion of this process, a 15- digit acknowledgment number is generated. If required, the applicant can check the status of the request anytime by providing her/his valid Aadhaar number and on successful allotment, can download the e-PAN. The e-PAN is also sent to the applicant on her/his email id, if it is registered with Aadhaar. 

The launch of the Instant PAN facility is yet another step by the Income Tax Department towards Digital India, thereby creating further ease of compliance to the taxpayers. 

(Surabhi Ahluwalia) 
Commissioner of Income Tax 
(Media & Technical Policy) 
Official Spokesperson, CBDT. 


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