Acceptance of PAN applications – initials in the middle name
- Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 6:20
- Income Tax
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Circular No: – NSDL/TIN/2010-339, May 22, 2010
Subject: – Acceptance of PAN applications – initials in the middle name.
Attention of all TIN-Facilitation Centers (TIN-FCs) is hereby invited to the procedure prescribed for accepting PAN applications. As you are aware, PAN applicants (individuals) are required to provide names (first name, middle name & last name) in expanded form in PAN applications submitted. Also, the supporting documents submitted as proof of identity and address should contain the applicant’s name in expanded form and as mentioned in the PAN application.
Income Tax Department (ITD) has now informed that PAN applications received from Individuals having initials (one single character) in the middle name (Applicant’s name, Applicant’s other name, Father’s Name, Representative Assessee’s name), may be accepted. Accordingly, the instructions for acceptance of PAN applications have been revised as below:
Initial (single character)
- If the middle name of the abovementioned name fields contain one initial, then the application may be accepted provided they match exactly with the documents (proof of identity and proof of address) submitted by the applicant.
- If the last name and/or first name part of the abovementioned name fields contain initial, then the application should be rejected.
It may be noted that the guidelines issued for acceptance of PAN applications having two character names, remain unchanged.
In view of the above, Annexure J and K of TOM are being amended to incorporate the aforesaid changes. The amended annexure J and K are attached as Annexure I and Annexure II respectively.
The version of TOM after the aforesaid changes shall be 4.50. The version control sheet for TOM is attached as Annexure III.
All TIN-FCs are advised to take note of the above and ensure compliance.
For and behalf of
National Securities Depository Limited
Hiten Mehta
Vice President
Encl.: a/a
I have applied for a address change in my existing PAN. Along with my application I attached proof of residence and also a copy of PAN card allotted to me. To my surprise I got a mail from NSDL saying I need to file a proof of my fathers name. I dont know what proof I need to file. Even the instruction manual also dont provide anything which need to be filed as proof of fathers name.
Further I dont know why I am required to file a proof of my fathers name as I am already having a PAN Card and now I am only requesting to change the address.
The purport or import of the revised instructions are not at all understood; much less its applicability or otherwise to every situation or individual’s case has not been made clear.
This is no different from, but leads to the same type of, confusion that was brought about (but later cleared on a specific representation made to the CEC), years before, by mindlessly insisting for mention of a ‘surname’ while applying for an electoral card. That overlooked the reality, people from a few states, especially the ones from the south, do not have a surname; but comprises only father’s name (first)and person’s name (second). Incidentally, as one recalls, in the tax return form (s), one was requiured to state the person’s name (being the second name)first, followed by father’s name (otherwise used to appear second).
There has thus been an obvious mix up, for which the executive has to own the blame entirely.
As, in any event, the PAN card contains the photo identity, the requirement should end there. Otherwise, chaos and onfusion would become inevitable, and merely go to add to the already obtaining woes of the tax paying individyals, without having to serve any worthwhile purpose.
vswaminathan
The point raised by Mr. Mistry is valid. For example, in the case of amendment in PAN, the prescribed form ask for ticking the items where changes are required. Even in such cases evidences for all the items are called for. This is despite the fact that except one item no changes are required anywhere.
Secondly, in the case of married woman, documentary evidence of her father’s name is asked for. Now, he might have died long back. School leaving certificate containing father’s name is also not accepted. What proof there can be other than this?.
On enquiry we are informed to submit a certificate by a Gazetted Officer or a corporator etc. How will they verify correctness of the information? So people are “managing” it and submitting to get the work done.
There is no clarity in respect of many ares. At times, application form rejected by NSDL collection centres are accepted by UTI centres. And the best part is that PAN is allotted in such cases as well.
One thing is clear that there is no clarity in this area neither at NSDL or UTI or I Tax Dept. Each one interpretes in its own way.
I have seen that at times PAN is allotted on the basis of dubious papers.
CA. Pradip Shah
I am happy to know the change, since I have been struggling with Income Tax Department since September last for want of proof of her father’s full name. Luckily she had her father’s name in full in her passport, a document accepted by Income Tax Department.
I also feel that such a minute mistake should be overlooked since it does not make sense and is immaterial.
I am happy to know the change, since I have been struggling with Income Tax Department since September last for want of proof of my wife’s father’s full name. Luckily she had her father’s name in full in her passport, a document accepted by Income Tax Department.
I also feel that such a minute mistake should be overlooked since it does not make sense and is immaterial.
it happened to me also. I made an application for change of address. my application was rejected for want of proff for my grandfather (not my father). silly.
I was trying to fill Pan online form, Which says First and Last name is mandatory. I put my first name as my name “Agasthian” and last name as my fathers name “Ponnambalam” (Which is my initial). I have no documents supporting my full name with initials expanded and now i dont know how to use those columns. Have sent with the proofs i have, which dont have initials expanded, Will i be issued a Pan Card or my form will be rejected.
i have the same problem that NSDL needs proof with expanded middle initial & i do not have any.
Now with NSDL allowing middle initial
“One single character initial is allowed in middle name field in PAN application for individual category.NEW
(Please note that name in proof of identity and proof of address should exactly match with the name in application).”
tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/index.html
Still the call center people at NSDL do not understand this & are rejecting the application.
It is unfortunate that i cannot get my duplicate pan card just because i do not have a expanded middle initial name address proof.
This is being a big damn headache for me now. Because of the stupidity of the people who created the PAN application format, my life is filled with misery for this NAMESAKE. As everyone here has mentioned, South Indians in the past used to live in clustered communities comprising of only their caste members. For example, an entire village may comprise of Chettiars only and thereby the use of caste for surname was avoided as it led to duplication of records. For example, the same village may have about ten Ganeshan Chettiar. So as an alternate, the survey officers used to put the father’s name as an initial. So if Ganeshan’s father’s name was Annamalai, then his name was put in the records as Ganeshan A. That is how my name has also been Krishnan V in all my school records. Even when I got my first job, my name was mentioned as Krishnan V and the bank account application was also quite simply a few years ago and all my bank records, telephone bills, insurance policies etc. show my name as Krishnan V. Now the issue started when my PAN was applied for. It rejected single letter surnames and I had to expand my name. Having used my PAN for ID proof during passport application, my passport also has my name as Krishnan Venkatesh. Now all banks have started to update their KYC and they are threatening to freeze my account if I do not provide all my ID and address proofs once again. Here all my photo ID documents viz. PAN, DL and passport have my name mentioned as Krishnan Venkatesh and it is being rejected.
Recently I switched companies. I provided the experience certificate and educational details with the name showing Krishnan V and hence my name got input into the system as Krishnan V. When I am trying to open a new account with the same name, it is getting rejected. I explained that if the salary credit has to happen through ECS, my name would show as Krishnan V during the salary transfer and the bank my freeze the transaction due to name mismatch. They want me to either change my name in the PAN records as Krishnan V or change my name in the organization to Krishnan Venkatesh. I am now in a total fix. If I ask for a change of name in the organization to Krishnan Venkatesh, I would be in troulbe when I have to apply elsewhere in the future. They may reject my previous experience letters with the name Krishnan V. Man, whomsoever the idiot was who made this system for PAN application has made it a nightmare for South Indians.
pan application asks expanded form in fathers name field but i have address proof identity proof with only initial, and what ever they ask as proof those peoples never asks expanded name(example: bank account, Marks card etc..), if pan rules is to provide full expanded name, they should give some other ways to cover it(example: a form saying name with initial and full form are same, signed by tashildar), does they dont no consequences arising for peoples(75%) dont have expanded father name in any proofs.(unthinkable _ _ _ ).