Lost Your PAN Card? How to Get A Duplicate PAN Card Online
The PAN card is really a must while doing big financial transactions. So, it's disturbing when the PAN card is lost or misplaced. As we all need to quote PAN number while doing financial transactions or showing it somewhere physically. As per Income tax website, if the PAN card is lost, you can get a duplicate PAN card with some formalities that needs to be completed.
What to Do When you lost or Misplaced PAN Card?
First you must visit the TIN website (Tax Information Network of the Income Tax Department). But before you apply for a duplicate PAN card, certain prerequisites needs to be fulfilled.
For example, the facility to attain a duplicate PAN card can be availed by those PAN cardholders who had earlier processed their PAN application through NSDL e-gov and/or the e-filing portal of the Income Tax Department. The cardholders must provide their email address along with their registered mobile number in their original PAN application, to receive the OTP and complete the process.
After applying for a duplicate PAN card and filling the form and subsequent submission, it will be dispatched to the communication address of the cardholder, available with the I-T Department.
Following are the steps you must know on how to apply for a duplicate PAN card Online
How to Apply for a duplicate PAN card Online?
Visit the TIN website (Tax Information Network of the Income Tax Department) – https://www.tin-nsdl.com
Then, click on the ‘Reprint PAN card’ option to reprint your PAN card. If you cannot find the link, click on the ‘Services’ tab and select the ‘PAN’ option.
A new page opens up after selecting the PAN option
Enter your PAN details, Aadhaar number, and date of birth. (Tick the box for allowing the use of Aadhaar data for reprinting your PAN card.)
To reprint your PAN, you will be charged a fee of Rs 50 (inclusive of taxes). In case the duplicate PAN card needs to be delivered to a foreign address, the cardholder will be charged Rs 959 (inclusive of taxes).
Enter the given captcha code and click submit button.
Select the option from email, mobile, or both, where you want to receive the OTP.
Note that, the email ID and mobile number must be the same as you had provided in your original PAN application to the income tax department. If you want to change your email address and mobile number, there is also the option to do so.
If all your details are correct, click on the box confirming that you want your PAN card to be printed as per the details already available with the IT department.
Next click on the ‘Generate OTP’ option to proceed. The OTP will be sent to the registered mobile number and email ID.
After receiving the OTP, enter it in the space provided and click on submit. Please note that the OTP received will be valid only for 10 minutes.
After validating the OTP, you will need to do online payment for duplicate PAN card. Do the required payment.
Select the payment option, click on ‘Pay Confirm’ to be redirected to the payment gateway.
After successful payment, you can click on the generate and print option to print the payment receipt.
Lastly, you will receive an SMS with the acknowledgment number on your registered mobile number. You can download the e-PAN card through the link in the SMS.