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NTH :: Need PAN of your bank to avail home loan benefit? Here’s the list

ECONOMICTIMES.COM|Updated: Jul 19, 2017, 03.57 PM IST

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The need to disclose one’s permanent account number (PAN) has become essential in almost all financial transactions. But, when it comes to quoting bank’s PAN to avail certain tax benefits on home loan, not many could be aware of the same. And, locating the correct PAN of the bank may not be an easy task as well. Here’s a list of all bank’s permanent account number (PAN).

As a salaried individual, if you have taken a home loan and looking to get the tax benefit on the principal repaid and the also on the interest paid, providing certain details about the home loan such as home loan lender’s name, date of loan disbursement etc, to your employer was a necessary requirement. In addition to such details, one has to furnish the PAN of the lender as well. Locating the lender’s PAN may not be an easy task for many. Here is a list of banks with their PAN to help you furnish complete details to your employer.

As per the Rule 26C of the Income Tax Act, it has become mandatory from 1st June 2016, for the employee to furnish certain details to the employer for claiming the tax benefits on salary income. For this, the employee needs to fill and submit Form 12BB to one’s employer to claim tax benefits or rebate on investments and expenses.

The Form 12BB is basically a statement of claims by an employee to claim tax deduction on leave travel allowance (LTA), house rent allowance (HRA), deductions under chapter VIA (Section 80C, 80D etc) and interest paid on home loans.

Among other things as mentioned above, in the Form 12BB, one has to furnish specific details about the home loan:

(i) Interest payable/paid to the lender (during the financial year)
(ii) Name of the lender
(iii) Address of the lender
(iv) Permanent Account Number (PAN) of the lender

Use the information on this page to locate the PAN of your banker.

In case you want to confirm it, you can click here to verify it from the government website.

Need PAN of your bank to avail home loan benefit? Here's the list

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NTH :: Government to notify mandatory quoting of PAN for cash transactions over Rs 2 lakh

By Vinay Pandey, ET Bureau | 16 Dec, 2015, 03.37AM IST | Economic Times

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You will have to flash your permanent account number (PAN) for any transaction of over Rs 2 lakh regardless of mode of payment. The government has issued a notification to give effect to the budget proposal, intended to check domestic black money, apart from modifying the rules for PAN requirement for other transactions as well.

The monetary limits for quoting PAN has raised to Rs 10 lakh from Rs. 5 lakh for sale or purchase of immovable property, to Rs 50,000 from Rs 25,000 in the case of one time hotel or restaurant bills and to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 50,000 for purchase or sale of shares of an unlisted company.

This was one of the measures proposed by the government in the budget to curb domestic black money.

The budget had proposed a Rs 1 lakh limit. “Quoting of PAN is being made mandatory for any purchase or sale exceeding the value of Rs1 lakh,” FM had said in his budget speech.

A higher limit has been notified following representation from various quarters.

“Considering the representations, it has been decided that quoting of PAN will be required for transactions of an amount exceeding Rs.2 lakh regardless of the mode of payment,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Persons who do not hold PAN are required to fill a form and furnish any one of the specified documents to establish their identity, the statement said. The new rules will come into effect from January 1, 2016.

“The above changes in the rules are expected to be useful in widening the tax net by non-intrusive methods. They are also expected to help in curbing black money and move towards a cashless economy,” the statement said.

There will not be any requirement of PAN for Jan Dhan accounts as well.

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NTH :: PAN Card to be Issued in 48 Hours: Report

Press Trust of India | Updated On: April 21, 2015 22:40 (IST) | NDTV Profit

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New Delhi: The government will soon launch a facility under which a PAN (Permanent Account Number) card will be issued within 48 hours of applying, according to a senior official.

“An online facility for issuance of PAN is on the anvil under which an applicant can get a PAN card within 48 hours,” the official said.

Besides, special camps will be organised throughout the country, including rural areas, to help people get PAN cards.

Permanent Account Number or PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number issued in the form of a laminated card by the Income Tax Department.

Recently, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policy-making body of the I-T department, had issued a notification making the Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC) and Aadhaar valid proofs of “date of birth” for obtaining a PAN card. (Read more)

PAN is required for filing income tax returns, sale or purchase of any immovable property beyond a certain amount and sale or purchase of a motor vehicle, among others.

The Finance Act 2015 proposes quoting PAN mandatory for buying jewellery valued at Rs 1 lakh or more.

The official further said that a total 4.73 crore tax returns were filed in 2014-15, of which only 6 lakh were scrutinized by the Income Tax Department.

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NTH :: Your insurance payout will now come after a tax cut

IANS | Oct 19, 2014, 10.09AM IST | Times of India
Under section 194D, life insurance companies have to deduct a two-percent tax at source on aggregate payouts exceeding Rs 1,00,000 during a financial year under life policies.

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CHENNAI: In a quiet move, the impact of which is being felt only now, the statute books have been amended to deduct tax at source on some insurance payouts, which could particularly affect people above 45 and those with single-premium policies.

This, by way of a new section — 194DA — in the Income Tax Act, 1961, that took effect Oct 1, and surprised many policy-holders who got to know of it after they received a communique from their insurance companies.

Many more are still unaware.

Section 194D envisages deduction of tax at source on the life insurance policy payouts which are not exempt under Section 10(10D),” Vibha Padalkar, executive director and chief financial officer of HDFC Standard Life Insurance, told IANS.

Under section 194D, life insurance companies have to deduct a two-percent tax at source on aggregate payouts exceeding Rs 1,00,000 during a financial year under life policies. In case where PAN card details are not available, the deduction shall be 20 percent.

For the record, Section 10(10D) of the Income Tax Act exempts any sum received under an insurance policy that is paid from April 1, 2012, if the premium for any of the years during the currency of the policy is within 10 percent of the actual sum assured.

For policies taken between April 1, 2003, to March 31, 2012, the condition was that the premium shall not exceed 20 percent of the actual capital sum assured. The clauses were not applicable if the amount received was on account of the death of an insured.

“The actual capital sum assured excludes the value of any premium agreed to be returned, as also benefit by way of bonus or otherwise that is over and above the policy amount,” said C.L. Baradhwaj, senior vice president, Bharti Axa Life Insurance told IANS.

While life insurers try to ensure that the premium amount is compliant with the Income Tax Act at the product-design stage itself, there are some set of policyholders who could be affected by the new provisions, Baradhwaj said.

All single-premium policies would be the immediate casualty, as the premia paid in one instalment would generally exceed 10 percent of the sum assured,” he said.

He said it is possible that people could be paying premia higher than the 10-20 percent limit set by the new provisions on account of their personal health, as also many other reasons. In such cases, too, the TDS liability could arise.

“It is important to note that a person aged, say, 50 years, pays a higher premium for the same sum assured when compared to a person who is 35 years old. Higher the age, higher risk and higher the premium,” Baradhwaj added.

Industry officials also maintain that life insurance companies have been asked to make a TDS deduction under policies that are deviant of Section 10(10D), since some people were not reporting the same in their tax returns.

According to Baradhwaj, if the condition of 10-20 percent is not satisfied, all benefits payable — pertaining to the maturity, survival, or surrender — under a life insurance policy, excluding the death benefits, shall be liable for TDS.

“Policy loan is not a benefit. It’s a repayable obligation. Hence it is not taxable.”

A marketing official of the state-run Life Insurance Corporation of India told IANS that policyholders in rural and small towns would be severely affected by the new provisions, as they might not have PAN cards.

At the same time conflicting views are being expressed on pension polices. According to one view, pension policies are outside the newly introduced section 194DA of the Income Tax Act as they are outside the scope of Section 10(10D).

The argument: Pension policies do not have any death benefit like ULIP Pension Policies, or have only miniscule death benefits like in the current regime pension schemes, so they do not qualify as a pure life insurance policy.

But a Supreme Court advocate and expert in insurance and company laws, D. Varadarajan, differs, raising a fundamental question: “How do life insurance companies sell pension policies if they are not treated as life insurance policies?”

“The regulator’s licence allows insurance companies to only deal with the life insurance business. Hence it will be incongruous with the Insurance Act to keep pension policies outside the ambit of life insurance policy,” Varadarajan told IANS.

He said pension policy is also a life insurance policy, as it covers the risk of living longer, as opposed to the conventional life insurance policies which cover the risk of dying early.

Meanwhile, industry officials agree that life insurers have to communicate with their policyholders about the impact of the new section of the Income Tax Act.

“It’s also important to create awareness among the sales force on the need to tell their customers on the need for proper disclosures to the authorities so that insurance firms can avoid unnecessary policy cancellation requests later,” Baradhwaj said.

“Software systems also need upgrade to ensure compliance with the new requirements.”

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