With the imposition of the Swachh Bharat cess, getting a new Permanent Account Number (PAN) card for income tax purposes has become costlier .Under revised charges, a PAN card, issued by the Income Tax department will now be costing 107 rupees instead of 106 rupees.<br/><br/>The new cess was announced last week by the government and it will levy a surcharge of 0.5 per cent on all taxable services.<br/><br/>PAN is a 10-digit unique alphanumeric number allotted by the Income Tax department to taxpayers and is issued to an individual or entity.<br/><br/>The government wants to deepen the PAN reach in order to add more taxpayers to the I-T net and ensure better taxpayer services.

With the imposition of the Swachh Bharat cess from today, getting a new Permanent Account Number (PAN) card for income tax purposes has become costlier .Under revised charges, a PAN card, issued by the Income Tax department will now be costing 107 rupees instead of 106 rupees.<br/><br/>The new cess was announced last week by the government and it will levy a surcharge of 0.5 per cent on all taxable services.<br/><br/>PAN is a 10-digit unique alphanumeric number allotted by the Income Tax department to taxpayers and is issued to an individual or entity.<br/><br/>The government wants to deepen the PAN reach in order to add more taxpayers to the I-T net and ensure better taxpayer services.