NRI PAN Card

Dear Experts,

I am a NRI and want to apply for a PAN card. I do not have a proof of residence address in India. I see that there are sites like tin.nsdl that help to get a PAN card even for a foreign address.

1) Do you see any disadvantages of getting a PAN card with foreign address? My husband has a PAN card with a old indian address from the time when we were in India. That address in invalid now.

2) By any chance the I.T. department treats NRIs differently (causing negative impact for me)?

3) Would you recommend to get a Indian address for a PAN card to avoid any potential issues? In that case I will have to go through some hassles to get myself registered to my brothers residence address.

Looking forward for your expert advise.

Thanks,

Circular no 4 dated 11-10-2006 will solve your problem.

**PAN to persons outside India and foreign citizens -reg.**
Following guidelines are issued to facilitate the allotment of PAN to citizens of India residing outside India, foreign citizens and other persons (like companies/trusts/firms) having no office of their own in India:
I. Citizens of India residing outside India and foreign citizens Service providers shall accept applications from these categories of natural persons (individuals), without insisting on details of a representative assessee. Details of addresses and proofs required for identity and address in such cases will be as per Annexure "A " enclosed
II. Other persons (like companies/trusts/firms) having no office of their own in India: Service providers shall accept applications from these categories of applicants, without insisting on details of a representative assessee. Details of addresses and proofs required for identity and address in such cases will be as per Annexure A enclosed
2. Service providers should advise applicants in the above mentioned categories to clearly indicate the address at which the PAN card and other communication should be sent in column 6 of Form No.49A, and also to invariably mention their email id in column 7 of Form No.49A. Service providers are permitted to charge applicants courier charges for PAN cards required to be delivered abroad, in addition to the application fee of Rs.60 plus applicable service tax. Details of service charges and delivery time shall be put up on the web-sites of the respective service providers
3. Codes 99 and 999999 should be entered for State and PIN fields respectively for the class of PAN applicants not having Indian address. However, actual foreign ZIP / PIN code should be populated in any of the 5 address fields (preferably last) along with the name of the country.
4. Service providers should also place on their respective web-sites the available Assessing Officer (AO) codes of International Taxation Directorate and advise the applicants to mention AO code out of these codes. However, if no AO code is mentioned in the application or the AO code mentioned is other than of International Taxation Directorate, then the first international taxation Assessing Officer of Delhi may be used as default AO code.
5. These guidelines are applicable only for the purpose of allotment of PAN to the categories of persons specified above.

	PAN Circular No. 4	Dated: 11.10.2006

	Subject: Issue of PAN to persons outside India and foreign citizens -reg.
				Annexure - A

	INDIVIDUAL			Other persons having no office in India
PARTICULARS	Indian Citizen - At the time of application for PAN located:	Foreign Citizen - At the time of application for PAN located:
	Outside India	In India	Outside India
ID Proof	Copy of passport	Copy of passport	Copy of passport, duly attested by Indian Embassy in the country where applicant is located.	Copy of registration certificate of their country duly attested by Indian Embassy in the country where applicant is located.
Address Proof	Copy of passport;copy of bank account in country of residence	Copy of passport; copy of bank account in India	Copy of passport, duly attested by Indian Embassy in the country where applicant is located; copy of bank account in country of residence	NA
Photo	Applicant	Applicant	Applicant	NA
Signature	Applicant	Applicant	Applicant	Authorised Signatory
Representtaive Assessee	Not required	Not required	Not required	Not Required

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