« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  ITR filing deadline extension now demanded by this Tax Bar Association due to many issues including technical glitches with ITR portal  GST Rule Changes for FY 2025 26  Income tax return filing 2025: Five ITR mistakes that can trigger an income tax notice in 2025  ITR filing What is updated income tax return and ITR U Who can file & what you can t change - top points to know  Shifted to new tax regime? Here are 5 investments you shouldn't drop  Auditing and Assurance Standards Board Expert Panel for addressing queries related to Statutory Audit pertaining to auditing aspects. «  I pay more taxes than Hrithik: Big B... Taxes touch Rs 4,70,077 cr... » Duplicate PAN cards related harassment April, 30th 2007 Lok Sabha A number of persons made multiple applications for PAN, giving particulars differently, resulting in issue of multiple PANS. With a view to cleaning the PAN database, it was decided to undertake an exercise of de-duplication of PAN. No case of harassment during the de-duplication exercise has come to governments notice. However, in a few cases difficulties in the issue of refunds due to duplication of PAN have been noted. Field offices of the Income Tax Department have been directed to complete de-duplication exercise in a time bound manner. Further, the software in this regard has been enhanced so as to speed up the de-duplication process. This information was given by Shri S.S. Palanimanickam, Minister of State for Finance in reply to a question raised by Shri Chengara Surendran in Lok Sabha today. BY /GN-219/07