How to Verify PAN Status Online: Check if Your PAN Is Active

How to check whether your PAN is active

The Income Tax Department offers a Verify PAN Status service on its official e-Filing portal. This is useful when you need to confirm whether the PAN details you entered match the department's records or whether your PAN is active.

### Verify PAN status without logging in

The department's user manual says ordinary users can access this service before login.

1. Visit the Income Tax e-Filing website (opens in a new tab). 2. Under Quick Links, select Verify PAN Status. 3. Enter the PAN, full name, date of birth and mobile number you can access. 4. Select Continue and enter the six-digit OTP sent to that number. 5. Select Validate. After successful verification, read the PAN status shown.

Use your own information or information you are authorised to verify. The department's user guide notes the OTP is valid for 15 minutes and permits three attempts.

### Is Verify PAN the same as Link Aadhaar?

No. They answer different questions.

• Verify PAN Status checks PAN details and whether the PAN is active.
• Link Aadhaar / View Status tells you whether a PAN and Aadhaar have been linked, or whether a linking request is pending.

For the second task, follow our PAN Aadhaar link-status guide instead.

### What if the PAN details do not match?

Check the spelling and date-of-birth details you entered against your actual records. Do not repeatedly submit guesses or share documents with a stranger. The department's user manual advises contacting the jurisdictional assessing officer for questions that need official help.

### Do you need an Income Tax account?

For ordinary individual users, the department describes Verify PAN Status as a pre-login service. External agencies have a different login-based process. You may use any accessible valid phone number to receive the OTP for the individual verification process.

### Privacy check

Do not enter PAN, date of birth, or OTPs into lookalike sites. Open incometax.gov.in directly. A result from a third-party lookup does not replace the official department's status confirmation.

Reviewed 20 October 2026. All steps are based on the Income Tax Department's Verify Your PAN user manual and FAQ.