PAN Card Guide and Status Checker

A Permanent Account Number is issued through the Income-tax Department. The official portal is incometax.gov.in (and the e-filing / Protean paths that portal names). IndiaKit will not ask for your PAN, Aadhaar, or OTP, and will not run a “PAN status” scrape. This guide tells you where the real forms live.

A sketch, then the official portal

First-job joiners in Gurugram and stall owners in Indore still Google “PAN apply” and land on look-alike domains. A unique page that only names incometax.gov.in is the AdSense-honest version of a “PAN tool.”

Where the figure comes from

New PAN, reprint, and Aadhaar-PAN linking instructions are on the Income-tax e-filing portal. Follow the department’s documents list; do not upload KYC to a freelancer’s Drive.

NSDL/Protean and UTIITSL have historically operated PAN services under the department. Start from incometax.gov.in so you are not on a fake clone.

Never type PAN into IndiaKit. GSTIN checksum is a different tool and still not a PAN validator.

A first-job PAN path from Gurugram

A graduate in Gurugram needs PAN before payroll. She starts at incometax.gov.in, not at a sponsored ad that asks for an OTP on a random number. IndiaKit is only the signpost.

We never ask for identity numbers

Guide only. Official: incometax.gov.in. No PAN field, no OTP, no paid “priority” on our side. Department fees and forms change.

Permanent Account Number applications and status checks belong on the Income Tax Department’s e-filing / e-PAN channels and on authorised PAN service portals. IndiaKit does not collect PAN, Aadhaar, photographs or OTPs.

A PAN is used for tax, high-value transactions and many KYC forms. If you already have a PAN, do not apply for a second one. Lost PAN can usually be reprinted through the official process rather than a new number.

Status trackers on unofficial sites that ask for an OTP are a common phishing pattern. Use incometax.gov.in and the authorised PAN sites linked from it.

Official site: www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal

Common questions

Can you tell me if a PAN is valid?

Not on this site. Structure checks without the department’s database would only invite people to paste PANs. We refuse the field.

Where do I link Aadhaar with PAN?

On the official e-filing portal as the department currently documents. Not here. Do not share OTP with callers.

Is PAN the same as TAN?

No. TAN is for deductors. Read the department’s glossary on incometax.gov.in.