PENDENCY IN PAN TRANSFER REQUEST - Income Tax - F.NO. DIT(S)-I/AIS/NODAL/12-13

DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEMS) ARA Centre, Ground Floor, E-2, Jhandewalan Extension New Delhi, 110055 Dated 8-10-2012 F.NO. DIT(S)-I/AIS/NODAL/12-13 Kind reference is invited to AIS instruction No. 81(copy enclosed-Annexure-I) vide which facility of auto route of PAN transfer in individual cases was withdrawn by the Directorate and new procedure of PAN transfer was defined. 2. As per new procedure for Individual PAN transfer requests, transferor/source officers (AO/Range/CIT) have to take a decision on system either to allow and confirm the request, originating from transfree/destination Assessing Officers or to reject the request. 3. On query from database, it is being observed that large number of regular PAN transfer requests are lying unattended on the part of AO/Range/CIT for allowing/confirming or rejecting. RCC wise pendency of regular PAN transfer requests is shown in Annexure. 4. It may kindly be appreciated that pendency on account of PAN transfer requests creates blocking of the PAN and further hampers processing of e-filed return. Considering the urgency of the matter, I am directed to kindly request that the field formations may kindly be directed to allow/confirm or deny, the pending PAN transfer requests, as the case may be on priority basis ANNEXURE-I STOPPING AUTO ROUTE OF INDIVIDUAL PAN TRANSFER AIS INSTRUCTION NO. 81 [F.NO. SW/3/25/98/01-DIT(S)], dated 3-5-2012 Action : CIT/Range/AO/RCC. Kind attention is invited to AIS instruction Nos. 49 and 53 wherein to facilitate field offices. Auto route of Individual PAN transfer was provided for. Under Auto PAN transfer route, the system presumes a "no objection" from transferor officer and the PAN transfer request gets automatically executed after 10 days, transferring the PAN to destination officer. 2. The Auto route facility of Individual PAN transfers, though provided with good intention to help field offices, has been noticed to have been misused, resulting into refund frauds. 3. It has therefore been decided to withdraw the facility of Auto PAN transfer. Henceforth for Individual PAN transfer requests, transferor officers have to take a decision on system either to allow and confirm the request, originating from destination Officers or to reject the request. 4. The withdrawal of Auto PAN transfer facility in Individual cases is with concurrence of Member (L C). 5. In order to have control over pending request for Individual PAN transfers, MIS reports has been provided for status of PAN transfer available for viewing/printing to AO/Range incharge/Concerned CIT and AIS Admin at RCC, which can be accessed through the link AIS- Queries- PAN Transfer MIS and AIS- Reports- PAN Transfer MIS Reports 6. In case of any clarification or assistance on the subject matter, RCCs may please contact Sh. Ravi Dutt Sharma, Assistant Director (Systems) on Tel No. 0120-2770404 at Directorate of Income Tax (Systems). Date : 8.10.2012 RCC Wise PAN Migration Statistic (Pendency and Transferred) Annexure Across RCC Pendency (To allow/Confirm) Within RCC Pendency (To allow/Confirm) PANS transferred in last 30 Days DELHI 8145 40470 6232 MUMBAI 1174 14776 146351 CHENNAI 9907 19244 13642 BANGLORE 2234 17180 3136 HYDERABAD 5110 27156 4517 PUNE 24322 58790 27873 MEERUT 4556 10743 5287 KOLKATA 3882 27293 13981 BARODA 1519 3602 3271 SURAT 1831 3967 7679 AHMEDABAD 2099 7745 3726 JAIPUR 2981 12814 4313 KANPUR 1541 3797 1946 AGRA 1455 3804 1348 BHOPAL 1813 4822 2068 JODHPUR 3529 7883 3577 KOLHAPUR 0 2198 2015 MADURAI 783 1378 1911 NASIK 1868 4521 1095 PATIALA 4845 6890 7043 LUCKNOW 4575 16795 5147 ALLAHABAD 2137 14731 7784 ROHTAK 3943 7622 3033 JABALPUR 2880 4299 9775 AMRITSAR 1656 6671 1565 JALANDHAR 2075 7585 6294 NAGPUR 1693 5313 4265 RAJKOT 2476 9513 1063 PATNA 2234 6519 1807 RANCHI 1457 7139 670 BHUBHNESWAR 1453 6145 1746 SHILONG 1534 7616 6843 VISHAKAPATANAM 855 2450 594 COIMBATORE 469 1714 558 COCHIN 1659 1634 2403 TRIVANDRUM 580 1334 493 Total 115270 386153 315051