Thursday, April 10, 2014

Importance Of A PAN Card

By Ashis Jain


A Pan card is used for numerous applications and it is usually important especially to people who file income tax returns. It is used in the tax system as well as in investments to carry out various transactions. It can serve one purpose or more depending on the person using it. A PAN card allows you to enjoy a number of merits as it serves many purposes.

This card is important in the taxation department as it usually helps relevant tax authorities track all the transactions tax payers have carried within a financial period. This enables them to retrieve records that enable them calculate and allocate tax rates of various businesses. This prevents a situation of under taxation or over taxation that could probably result to losses that would affect your business in return.

This card may also be used to serve the same purpose as the national ID card. It normally has a photograph, the name and the address of the individual holding it. For this reason, it is very important as it can be helpful where you need to provide you ID and you do not have it at that moment. You can produce this card instead as it is a nationally accepted proof of identity.

It is usually used to calculate the tax rate of every individual, thus determining the tax levy a person is required to pay. For this reason, absence of this card can lead to one being taxed at a higher rate than expected. Therefore, it is important for you to hold a card to avoid such cases that leads to higher taxation that could affect your business.

Misuse of this card is minimal. This is because, even if your card is stolen or lost, names and address may change but the number of the card remains the same. Thus, this reduces cases of this card misuse.

The Pan card enhances your creditability before the eyes of financial institutions enabling you to qualify for different types of loans. It as well enables you open a demat account that normally allows you to sell or purchase property and many other assets. During purchases or sales involving immovable assets like land, it would be vital as you are needed to quote its number for security purposes.

The card ensures that you carry a fraud free transaction without the fear of one losing his or her money or property. Use of this card assures you of a transparent transaction. Therefore, its use should be enhanced for security reasons especially for people who undertake transactions involving a lot of money.

This card as well enables you to operate bank accounts that are vital and beneficial to your business. Whenever a person is depositing a large amount of money to the account, he or she is needed to provide this card to ensure that the transaction is done in the right manner. The card is also needed when you are carrying out transfer of money from one account to another bank account to enhance security of money in the bank.




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