There is nothing whose duplicate can’t be available in today’s market. Starting with the humorous Aadhar cards of Katrina Kaif and Aishwarya Rai (fake cards), everything has its fake or duplicates. No matter whatever the safety measures authorities might take, there’s always enough room for flaws.
Now, in a bid to get rid of the fake PAN cards and invalid authentication medium, Income Tax Department has declared to waive off the fake ones, in the same process as they started their work, as of now, over 11.44 lakh PAN cards are found lacking in proper aspects and been deactivated.
This all happened before July 27th and details are revealed now. It is well known that as per government rules, a person cannot be registered with more than one PAN number, meanwhile, the authorities also detected fake PAN cards which were allotted to non-existing individuals or to people who have submitted falsified information about themselves, and those deactivated ones were also included in the above 11.44 lakhs.
However, if you want to know whether your PAN card is active or has faced the wrath of IT Dept, then you must go through the “Tax e-filing website”.
Follow these step-by-step process to check the status of your card:
1) Start with stepping on to “http://www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in” on the top of the left column you can notice “Services” click on “Know Your PAN” option.
2) You’ll be redirected to the page in which you’ll be asked to enter your personal details like name, status, religion etc. Make sure to enter the same mobile number on this page, which you entered on your form while applying for your PAN card. After filling the details, click on “Submit” option.
3) Now, enter the OTP you received on your registered mobile on the next page and click on “Validate” button.
4) If you got multiple numbers with respect to your PAN, then a notice will pop up saying, “There are multiple records for this query. Please provide additional information.” It will further ask you some more details.
5) After entering the required details, you will be taken to a page where you will see the validity of your PAN Card and the number of the active PAN Card and its jurisdiction.