PAN card

On March 28, the Supreme Court solicited the help of Attorney General K K Venugopal to help with a petition filed by Reshma Prasad, a transgender person, who said she was unable to register her Start-up because of a mismatch in the gender mentioned on her PAN and Aadhaar cards.

The Supreme Court's 5-judge bench, led by India's Chief Justice Dipak Misra, on Thursday, rejected the petition filed by senior advocate Shyam Divan

The government informed the Parliament this week that Aadhaar or PAN card among a host of documents could be used to establish proof of birth.

The move is expected to keep a check on tax evasion using multiple PAN cards.

The Income Tax Department has decided to make Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards tamper-proof to curb illegal and fraudulent practices in taxation and banking.

With the demonetisation drive in full swing, many people are beginning to realise the importance of having a PAN card. Read on to find out more about this increasingly important identification document, and how to go about getting one if you don’t have it already.

The Indian government is set to launch a new income tax tool that will track all PAN card activities of an individual. In this way, the software will help the tax department track black money too. Here are five extremely useful things the tool can do.