Know Your PAN Structure | Know your Pan Detail about its characters
In a written note, the Ministry of Finance informed the Public Accounts Committee that PAN was generated using five parameters identifying a specific individual viz:-
- Full name
- Date of Birth/incorporation
- Status
- Gender in case of individual
- Father’s name in case of individuals (including married ladies)
These five fields, referred to as `core fields’ were considered essential without which PAN could not be allotted. The Ministry used phonetic/soundex algorithm to ensure uniqueness. PANs were allotted centrally by using customized software for all-India uniqueness that generated a 10 character number on the basis of the information of the five core-fields of the person in the following structure:
Like : AABCI1234A (So It has their own algorithm to define each Character as define in image below) Simpletaxindia.blogspot.com (Mr.Rajan Gupta) has written article in very detail about PAN Structure Click to read it .
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