What is the meaning of words which is given in the income tax pan number?

any one can tell me the meaning of the letters and number which is given in the PAN card which is given by the income tax department, India.

I can tell you about forth and fifth character in pan but I can explain you other characters ,may be they have no meaning

like if your pan is AFAPG7377R Than forth character "P" means personal and its issued to Individual person in nutshell if forth digit is "p" that it mean it pan of individual .and further for all type of assesses there is separate code .for more detail read the following

http://simpletaxindia.blogspot.com/2007/...

AAA S A 1234 A
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5 4 3 2 1
1.Alphabetic check Digit
2.Sequential number running from 0001 to 9999
3.First character of assessee鈥檚 last name/surname
4.Status
5.Alphabetic series running from AAA to ZZZ

Permanent Account Number (PAN) is a ten-digit alphanumeric identifier, issued by Income Tax Department. Each assessee (e.g. individual, firm, company etc.) is issued a unique PAN.

1-5 field are alpha(A to Z)
6-9 field are numeric(0-9)
10 field is alpha(A-Z)


Forth field of pan denotes assessee status :
for individual="P"
for Company="C"
for Trust ="T"
for partnership firm="F"
Body of Individual:"B"

Association of persons:"A"
HUF="H"
Local authority:"L"
Govt.="G"
judicial artificial person:"j"

2.Fifth field of PAN denotes NAME


In case of individual: Surname/last name(as given in pan application)
for ex. in case of Ram Kumar(individual)
5th field will be "K"
4th field will be "P"
In case of Ram Kumar Gupta(Individual)
5th field will be "G"
4th field will be "P"


In case of All Other Assesees (not confirmed for all the assessee)
5th field will be first letter of Name/first Name
for ex : In case of Suresh Jindal (HUF)(confirmed)
5th field will be "S"(first letter of First name i.e Suresh)
4th field will be "H"(for Huf)

for ex: in case of ABB LTD(confirmed)
5th field will be "A"(first letter of First name)

4th field will be "C"(for company)

The same question was asked about 1 month back. No one knows the meaning of the letters and number in the PAN. It may be secret of Income Tax department to prevent duplicate PAN cards.