PAN Card Correction Form: How To Make Correction In PAN Card Online?

A Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a critical document required to file taxes and get tax refunds. It also serves as an identity proof of an individual or a company. Thus, any incorrect information on the PAN card could lead to problems.  

How to Make Corrections in a PAN Card?

You can apply for PAN card correction when there is any mistake or change in your name, address or date of birth in your PAN card online or offline. However, you can apply for correction only when the following conditions are met:

• When you have a PAN card.
• When your name, address and date of birth are printed wrongly, or it is changed.
• When you have supporting documents containing the changed or correct name, address or date of birth.

How to Apply for PAN Card Correction Online?

Follow the below steps to apply for a change of PAN card details online:

Step 1: Visit the NSDL PAN website or the UTIITSL website.

Step 2: Select the ‘Change/Correction in PAN card details’.

Step 3: Enter the ‘PAN Card’ number, fill in the other details, and click the ‘Submit’ button.

Step 4: Your request will be registered, and you will receive a token number on your email ID 

Step 5: Next, enter your necessary details and your ‘Aadhaar card’ and click ‘Next’.

Step 6: Select the option you want to update (name, address or date of birth).

Step 7: Enter the updated details and other required details and upload the documents. 

Step 8: Pay the required fees and submit the application. 

Step 9: You will receive an acknowledgement number. Note down the number since it will be required to check the status of the correction application.

Step 10: Take a printout of the acknowledgement, attach the documents and send it to the following address when you apply on the NSDL website:

“Income Tax PAN Services Unit, 

Protean eGov Technologies Limited,

4th Floor, Sapphire Chambers, 

Baner Road, Baner, Pune - 411045”

When you apply on the UTIITSL portal, send the printout of the acknowledgement and documents to any one of the UTIITSL offices in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi or Chennai.

To know the detailed process of applying for a change in PAN card details, click here.

How to Apply for PAN Card Correction Offline?

You can also get the name, address and date of birth changed/corrected in your PAN card offline. Follow the below steps to apply for PAN card correction offline:

Step 1: Download the ‘Request For New PAN Card Or/ And Changes Or Correction in PAN Data’ application from the NSDL e-Gov website or UTIITSL website. 

Step 2:  Fill in the details in the application. 

Step 3: Attach your signature and photograph to the application. 

Step 4:  Submit the form and the required documents to the nearest PAN centre.

Step 5: Pay the fees for PAN card update/correction. 

Step 6: You will get the acknowledgement number from which you can track the status of your PAN card update application.

PAN Card Correction form Download Online

You can download the PDF of the PAN card correction form, i.e. ‘Request For New PAN Card Or/ And Changes Or Correction in PAN Data’ application, by clicking here.

Documents Required for PAN Card Correction

• Copy of PAN card.
• Proof of identity, address and date of birth (as provided below).

The documents accepted for proof of identity, address and date of birth for individuals and Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) are as follows:

The documents accepted for proof of identity and proof of address of foreign citizens are as follows:

The documents accepted for proof of identity and address for companies, firms and artificial judicial persons are as follows:

Processing Fees and Charges For Pan Card Correction

The fee for PAN card correction when submitted offline is Rs.110. If the PAN card is to be dispatched outside India, the applicant should pay an additional dispatch fee of Rs.910.

The PAN card correction fees for online application submission are as follows:

How to Check PAN Card Correction Status?

You can check the status of your PAN card correction application online by following the below steps:

Step 1: Go to the NSDL PAN website or the UTIITSL website.

Step 2: Click the ‘Know Status of PAN application’ or ‘Track PAN card’ option.

Step 3: Enter the ‘Acknowledgement Number’ and Captcha code and click ‘Submit’.

The status of the correction application will be displayed on the screen.

How to Change Your Name on a PAN card?

You can change the name on your PAN card through the following process:

• Visit the NSDL PAN website or the UTIITSL website.
• Select the ‘Change/Correction in PAN card details’.
• Enter the ‘PAN Card’ number, fill in the other details, and click the ‘Submit’ button.
• Enter the required details on the form.
• Select the name option and enter the changed/updated name. 
• Upload the required documents, pay the required fees and submit the application. 
• You will receive an acknowledgement number.
• Take a printout of the acknowledgement, attach the documents and send it to the NSDL office at Pune or UTIITSL offices in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi or Chennai.

Reasons to correct name in the PAN card

Below are the reasons for a correction of name in your PAN card:

• When you have changed your name legally.
• When your name has been spelt wrong on the PAN card.
• When there is a change in your surname after marriage.

Documents Required to Change Name in PAN card

• Copy of existing PAN card
• For married women - marriage invitation card, marriage certificate, or copy of passport showing husband’s name.
• For individuals - publication of name change in the gazette.
• For companies - ROC's certificate for a name change.
• For partnership firms - Revised partnership deed.
• For Association of Persons, trusts, Body of Individuals, or Artifical Judicial Persons - Revised registration, deed or agreement.
• For minor name corrections like spelling correction, expansion of initials, etc. - Proof of identity containing corrected data.

How to Make an Address Change in PAN Card Application Form?

Though addresses are not printed on PAN cards, it is required to send the hard copy of PAN card to the postal addresses. Thus, the address is mentioned in the PAN card application. 

The address can be updated or changed by following the below process:

• Visit the NSDL PAN website or the UTIITSL website.
• Select the ‘Change/Correction in PAN card details’.
• Enter the ‘PAN Card’ number, fill in the other details, and click the ‘Submit’ button.
• Enter the required details on the form.
• Select the address option and enter the changed/updated address. 
• Upload the required documents, pay the required fees and submit the application. 
• You will receive an acknowledgement number.
• Take a printout of the acknowledgement, attach the documents and send it to the NSDL office at Pune or UTIITSL offices in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi or Chennai.

However, the address cannot be changed when PAN application forms are filled and submitted offline and authenticated using the Aadhaar OTP since, in such cases, the address listed in the Aadhaar database will be taken as the default address.

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