Reading a pan no.

1. The first five fields are called the core fields and are alphabetical in nature.

2. The first three letters of the core field are an alphabetical series running from AAA to ZZZ.

3. The forth character of the PAN must be one of the following, depending on the type of assesse:

C – Company

P – Person

H — HUF (Hindu Undivided Family)

F — Firm

A — Association of Persons (AOP)

T — AOP (Trust)

B — Body of Individuals (BOI)

L — Local Authority

J — Artificial Juridical Person

G — Govt

(Example – Company = AAACA; Artificial Juridical Person = AAAJA; HUF = AAAHA; etc.)

4. The fifth character of the PAN is the first character of the following:

a) Your surname in the case of “P” or;

b) For all others you would use the first letter of the name of the Entity, Trust, Society, Organization, HUF, etc.

(Example - Lisa Chanamolu [Personal] = AAAPC4444A; Lisa Chanamolu [HUF] = AAAHL4444A; General Firm = AAAFG4444A; etc.)

5. The next four numbers are sequential numbers running from 0001 to 9999.

6. The last digit is an alphabetic check digit.

Thanks!

So this means only the 4th and 5th letter depend upon the constitution and name of the assessee. The rest are just randonly created alphabets/numbers, correct? Obviously, the first five are alphabets, next 4 are digits and again the last one is an alphabet, but apart from the above 2, all are just random?

yes though they are not but you can say that..As  every no. has logic but logic is set by IT dept ..