Migration of PAN lying in Old/Orphan/Defunct Jurisdiction–regarding

DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEMS)
ARA Center, Ground Floor, E-2, Jhandewalan Extension,
New Delhi-110055

F.No. DGIT(S)/DIT(S)-I/AIS Misc./0010/2015,  Dated: 16/7/2015

To,
All the Principal Chief Commissioners of Income-tax/ CCsIT  and
All the Commissioners of lncome-tax (CO & Admn.)

Subject: Migration of PAN lying in Old/Orphan/Defunct Jurisdiction–regarding

Sir/Madam

Kind reference is invited to AIS instructions no. 80, AST instruction no. 97 and 134 on the above subject (copies enclosed for ready reference) wherein procedure for migration of PAN lying in old/orphan/defunct Jurisdiction to the Jurisdictional A.Os. through the Nodal officer/jurisdiction defined under CIT(CO) was circulated.

2. Presence of PAN in old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction leads to problem in timely processing of returns and also raises problems consequent to selection of PAN in CASS. Therefore the above procedure was devised to address the various problems of processing and informed to field formation vide above instructions.

3. It is observed that some Jurisdictional CsITIRCCs have yet not finished the work of transfer of PANs from old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction to their correct and present jurisdictional officers. CIT wise status of PANs lying in old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction is attached  in Annexure A.

4. The work of migration of PAN from  Old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction  should  be  completed before 31-07-2015 well before running  of next CASS cycle. Considering the urgency of matter, I am directed to request you that jurisdictional CsIT may be asked to expedite the work of transfer of PAN lying in old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction to the Nodal jurisdiction and thereafter  RCCs should transfer PANs to their correct  present jurisdiction.

5. Detailed PAN wise list of PANs present in Old/orphan/defunct jurisdiction is also available on ITAXNET server path ITAXNET -> RESOURCES ->  DOWNLOADS ->SYSTEMS -> DATA FOR FIELD FORMATIONS -> OLD MARKED PANs.csv.

6. Also, there are certain jurisdictions having description like TDS AO, CIB AO where PAN should not reside as no processing is done in such jurisdictions. It may therefore be ensured that PANs may be quickly transferred out from these jurisdictions to correct current jurisdiction or to the Nodal jurisdiction under CIT (CO). Nodal officer/CIT (CO) may transfer such PANs to correct jurisdiction at the earliest.

Yours  faithfully

(K.K.  Srivastava)
Addl.  DG (S)- 1, C.B.D.T.,
New Delhi

Annexure-A