The income tax department in its latest drive has started de- activating PAN of all income tax assesses who were allotted more than one PAN at anytime in the past.
Unfortunately, in many cases the PAN being deactivated is the PAN on which the assessees are filing their income tax returns. Once, the PAN is de-activated by the income tax department, the income tax e-filing login of the assessee also gets blocked and the PAN holder is not able to do anything on the Income Tax e-filing portal such as filing of Income Tax Returns, view intimations and respond electronically to various communications by the ITD.
Ques: What should be done in case the PAN is de-activated?
Ans: In case your Permanent Account Number (PAN) is de-activated then you need to do the following:
1) You need to write a letter to your jurisdictional AO in the Income Tax Department for activation of your PAN.
2) Following documents need to be attached to the letter for activation of PAN:
- Indemnity Bond in favour of the Income Tax Department
- Copy of PAN on which the PAN holder is regularly filing the Income Tax Return.
- Copy of last three years Income Tax Returns filed on the PAN de-activated.
It takes atleast 10-15 days for the Income Tax Department for re-activating the PAN after submission of letter to ITD.