Free instant PAN card facility through Aadhaar

You can get a new PAN card in just 10 minutes and for free

All you need to apply for an e-PAN card is an Aadhaar number

• The facility is now available for all those Permanent Account Number (PAN) applicants who possess a valid Aadhaar number and have a mobile number registered in the UIDAI database.
• The 'beta version' for instant allotment of PAN on trial basis was started on February 12, 2020 on the e-filing website of the Income Tax (I-T) department. Since then, 6,77,680 instant PANs have been allotted with a turnaround time of about 10 minutes, till May 25, 2020.
• Issued on a near to real time basis, the allotment process is paperless and an electronic PAN (e-PAN) is issued to the applicants free of cost by the income tax department.
• The process for applying for instant PAN CARD is extremely simple. Go to the e-filing website of the Income Tax Department, share your Aadhaar number and submit the OTP generated on the AADHAAR registered mobile number.
• the department said since then more than 6.7 lakh instant PAN cards have been allotted to taxpayers. The turnaround time has been just about 10 minutes.
• "The launch of the instant PAN facility is yet another step by the Income Tax department towards Digital India