Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a ten-digit alpha numeric number, issued in the form of a laminated card, by the Income Tax Department, to any "person" who Applies for it or to whom the department allots the number without an application. PAN enables the department to link all transactions of the "person" with the Department. These transactions include tax payments, TDS/TCS credits, returns of Income/wealth/gift/FBT, specified transactions, correspondence, and so on.
PAN, thus, acts as an identifier for the "person" with the tax department. PAN was introduced to facilitates linking of various documents, including payment of taxes, assessment, tax demand, tax arrears etc. relating to an assesses, to facilitate easy retrieval of information and to facilitate matching of information relating to investment, raising of loans and other business activities of taxpayers collected through various sources, both internal as well as external, for detecting and combating tax evasion and widening of tax base.
Smartpayind.com is an online portal providing information about Pan Card and assistance to Individuals in applying for the same. The services rendered include verifying, supporting and filing the application forms for those who are applying for new PAN card, corrections and changes to their existing PAN data and request for duplicate or replacement of lost or damaged PAN card.
Today having a PAN card has become mandatory for most people irrespective of whether they have taxable income or not. In this light some of the retired IT (Income Tax) professionals, who are customers in our other line of business, suggested to come up with a much more simplified online solution for applying PAN card by people from various walks of life in urban, sub urban and Rural areas of India. We took up the challenge and came up with www.smartpayind.com that will provide a great user experience through the process of applying for their PAN card.