New Delhi: The process of digitization in the whole world including India has sped up in the last few years. In such a case, the frauds related to it have gone also up drastically. There are many cases of fake Aadhaar cards and PAN cards that crop up every now and then. We all know that amongst all the documents, PAN card is one of the most important one. You can easily accomplish any major task through its use. It is needed everywhere like banks, hospitals, schools, colleges, etc.
However, nowadays, due to the increasing number of fake PAN card cases, the Income Tax Department has started taking several stringent steps to crack down on this issue. The department has started adding QR code to PAN cards. The QR code can help identify between real and fake PAN cards. You can scan the QR code in your smartphone to find out if the PAN card is genuine or fake. For this, you will have to take help of an app from the Income Tax Department.
Find out authenticity of your PAN card with this process
- To find out whether the PAN card you have is real or fake, you need to first visit the income tax department's E-Filling portal.
- For this, you should first visit the official website of the Income Tax Department at www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal.
- Then click on 'verify your PAN' option.
- Then a new page will open in front of you.
- Here you will be asked for your complete PAN information which you are required to fill up.
- Here you need to enter PAN card number, name, Date of Birth and mobile number.
- You will then receive a message about whether your data matches or not.
-After that you will easily come to know whether your PAN card is real or fake.