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Government of India / Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
{Central Board of Direct Taxes}
New Delhi, the 12th February 2007
PRESS RELEASE
The Income Tax department has issued advertisements in all
prominent newspapers asking all persons who possess more than 1
PAN number to retain 1 PAN and surrender all extra PAN numbers
that may have been allotted to them. The extra PAN numbers have
to be surrendered latest by 23rd February 2007. This is the
final opportunity given by the Income Tax department and
henceforth if any person is found to possess more than 1 PAN
number, he / she / it will be liable to penal action.
The extra PAN numbers may be surrendered using one of the
several modes of surrender advertised by the department, viz. (i)
Help Desk set up in Income Tax offices all over the country set
up for this purpose; (ii) the Assessing Officer (DCIT / ACIT /
ITO); (iii) web-site of the department www.incometaxindia.gov.in
and (iv) Aayakar Sampark Kendra (ASK) at 0124-2438000.
It has come to the notice of the Income Tax department that
some persons are involved in forgery of getting PAN numbers
allotted to fictitious persons or getting more than I PAN
numbers allotted to the same person using different identities.
The department has taken action against all such cases, which
have come to its notice.
Some such cases are mentioned hereunder:-
- It was noticed that in a suburb of Mumbai some persons
were trying to assist people in obtaining PAN without having
to submit any evidence of identity or address along with the
PAN application, as required under law. These persons would
collect PAN applications signed by applicants, attach bogus
documents for proof of identity and address and try to submit
them at authorized PAN Service Centers. It was further noticed
that these persons claim to be authorized PAN Service Centers
but charged a substantially higher amount of Rs 500 to Rs 600
as fees. This attempt at mischief was noticed by the alert
personnel of the PAN Service Provider. The matter was reported
to local police; three persons were apprehended and remanded
to police custody. Police are further investigating the
matter.
- In another instance, vigilant employees of the PAN Service
Provider noticed suspicious looking copies of bank statements
attached as proof of residence with several PAN applications.
Income Tax department at Mumbai investigated these cases and
found that copies of the bank statements submitted with the
application were indeed forged. Copies of bank statements of
other persons had been used on which the name and address of
the applicants had been superimposed. FIR has been lodged with
local police authorities and the matter is under
investigation.
- A person at Chennai had tried to obtain fake PANs under
different names. After initial investigations by the Income
Tax department, the matter was reported to local police, who
apprehended the person.
The Income Tax department has advised the PAN Service
Providers, namely, UTITSL and NSDL, to be vigilant and take all
possible action to prevent attempts to obtain fake and duplicate
PANs
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