Last Modified: Fri, Apr 07 2017. 02 58 PM IST

Banks get time till 30 June to obtain PAN from account holders

The deadline for getting the permanent account number or form 60 (if PAN is not available) by banks ended on 28 February, and has been now extended till 30 June

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The tax department had in January asked banks, post offices and cooperative banks to document PAN or declaration of form 60 received from account holders. Photo: HT
The tax department had in January asked banks, post offices and cooperative banks to document PAN or declaration of form 60 received from account holders. Photo: HT

New Delhi: The tax department has given banks three more months till 30 June to obtain permanent account number (PAN) or form-60 from all account holders as it looks to tighten the noose around evaders.

Though the deadline for getting the permanent account number or form 60 (if PAN is not available) by banks ended on 28 February, the tax department on 5 April notified the extension of the time till 30 June.

In the notification, the income tax department said that in Income-Tax Rules 114B, in the fourth proviso, “for the figures, letters and words ‘28th day of February’ the figures, letters and words ‘30th day of June’ shall be substituted.” Rule 114B lists various transactions for which quoting PAN is mandatory.

The tax department had in January asked banks, post offices and cooperative banks to document PAN or declaration of form 60 received from account holders and maintain all records for transactions under Rule 114B of income tax act.

It had said that persons who have not quoted PAN, or did not furnish Form 60 at the time of opening account, will have to provide the same by 28 February.

Form 60 is a declaration form filed by an individual without PAN.

Following the demonetisation move effective 9 November, the tax department had asked banks and post offices to report to it all deposits above Rs2.5 lakh in savings accounts and more than Rs12.50 lakh in current accounts made between 10 November and 30 December 2016.

Also, cash deposits exceeding Rs50,000 in a single day had to be reported.

With an estimated Rs15 trillion in junked currency notes coming back into the banking system post demonetisation, the tax department has started analysing the bank deposit trends.

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First Published: Fri, Apr 07 2017. 02 58 PM IST