One price, everything included: ₹300 for a new PAN or a correction, delivered to an Indian address — our work and the government fee in a single number, with nothing added at the end. We have handled Vadodara's PAN work since 2017. And if the free instant e-PAN route fits your case, we will tell you that first, before you spend anything at all.
Typical reply within minutes during office hours.
Most agents quote you a service fee, then add the government fee at the counter. We put both in one figure so you know the total before you say yes.
For a card delivered to an Indian address. Our work and the government processing fee together — there is no second payment.
We would rather tell you here than at the counter. In both cases the government's own charge is larger than ₹300, so no honest agent can absorb it.
If you are an adult who has never held a PAN and your Aadhaar has a linked mobile number, the income-tax portal issues an instant e-PAN free. We will say so before taking your ₹300.
What takes you three confused portal sessions takes us one practiced pass. Hand it over, track it on WhatsApp, collect the result.
₹300 for a PAN, published openly — compare us with anyone.
You want a PAN in your hand, not a tutorial on tax infrastructure. So here is the shortest honest version of your options — including the route where you pay nothing at all — followed by what our fee actually buys you.
Route one is free. If you are an adult individual who has never been allotted a PAN and your Aadhaar carries a linked mobile number, the Income Tax Department's own Instant e-PAN facility issues a digitally signed e-PAN PDF at no charge, usually within hours. We tell every walk-in about this route before quoting anything — if it fits your case, take it and keep your money.
Routes two and three are the processors. Protean (formerly NSDL e-Gov) at tinpan.proteantech.in and UTIITSL at pan.utiitsl.com handle everything the free route excludes: physical cards, corrections, reprints, minors, firms, and name changes backed by gazette proof. Both feed the same Income Tax Department database and work to the same prescribed government fees, listed in the fee table further down this page.
And this is where we earn our fee. Since 2017, our Chhani Jakatnaka centre has prepared PAN files that match Aadhaar letter for letter, picked the right processor for each case, and caught the small mismatches that bounce applications weeks after submission. Our price for that work is ₹300 with the government fee already inside it, and when the free route serves you better we say so to your face. Tell us your case on WhatsApp and you will know which route fits before you spend a rupee.
The Income-tax Act, 2025 replaced the 1961 Act from 1 April 2026, and PAN paperwork changed with it. Half the rejected applications we now see at our counter trace back to people following pre-2026 guides. The old Forms 49A and 49AA are discontinued for new applications. In their place:
| New form | Who uses it | Replaces |
|---|---|---|
| Form 93 | Individual, Indian citizen | Form 49A (individuals) |
| Form 94 | Indian firm, company, HUF, trust and other non-individuals | Form 49A (entities) |
| Form 95 | Individual, foreign citizen | Form 49AA |
| Form 96 | Foreign non-individual entities | Form 49AA (entities) |
Corrections now run on their own new change-request form as well; we confirm the current form number on the Protean portal at filing time rather than printing it here, since the rollout is still settling.
The form numbers are the least of it. Four substantive changes matter more in practice:
If your documents disagree with each other on spelling, read our plain-language guide to name mismatches across documents before applying. Fixing the mismatch first is almost always cheaper than fighting a rejection later.
Any person whose income is taxable needs a PAN — individual, HUF, firm, LLP, company or trust. So does anyone running a business or profession above the threshold turnover, and anyone entering the specified financial transactions: opening bank accounts, buying property or vehicles, making investments above prescribed limits. In practice, almost every adult opening a serious bank account in Vadodara ends up needing one, employed or not.
Three categories of proof, and since April 2026 they are no longer interchangeable the way they used to be:
| Proof of | Commonly accepted documents | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | Aadhaar, voter ID, passport, driving licence | Name must match the application letter-for-letter |
| Address | Aadhaar, passport, voter ID, driving licence, recent utility bill or bank statement | Utility bills and statements must be within the prescribed age |
| Date of birth | Birth certificate, matriculation/school-leaving certificate, passport, driving licence | Aadhaar not accepted for DOB since 01-04-2026 |
The full prescribed list under the new forms is longer, and Protean maintains the authoritative version on its documents page — where your situation is unusual (no birth certificate, only Gujarati-language school records, and so on) we check your exact papers against that list before filing anything.
Children can hold PAN. A parent or guardian applies as the Representative Assessee, the card is issued without the child's photo or signature, and grandparents gifting investments is the most common reason we see for wanting one. Two things to know: the free instant e-PAN route is closed to minors, so the application goes through Protean or UTIITSL at the normal fee, and once the child turns 18 the card must be upgraded to a regular one — with photo and signature — through a change request. The guardian's own documents and the new Representative Assessee sections of Form 93 have to be completed carefully; this is one of the fiddlier applications, which is exactly why people bring it to us.
Timelines, honestly: after documents clear verification, Protean and UTIITSL applications commonly complete in about one to two weeks for e-PAN plus card dispatch. Neither processor publishes a guaranteed turnaround, so if someone quotes you a fixed day count, they are guessing.
We publish this table because you deserve to see the split. These are the government-prescribed processing fees at Protean, inclusive of GST — the amounts that go to the processor whoever helps you, us or another agent or nobody at all. For the two rows in bold below, the fee is already inside our ₹300; you pay us ₹300 and nothing else. The rows for foreign addresses are the reason our ₹300 is scoped to Indian delivery: the state's charge alone is more than three times our whole price.
| Service | Mode | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Physical PAN card, Indian address | Online paperless | ₹101 |
| Physical PAN card, Indian address | Physical / TIN centre | ₹107 |
| Physical PAN card, foreign address | Online paperless | ₹1,011 |
| Physical PAN card, foreign address | Physical / TIN centre | ₹1,017 |
| e-PAN only (PDF by email) | Online paperless | ₹66 |
| e-PAN only | Physical mode | ₹72 |
| Reprint, no data change, Indian address | — | ₹50 |
| Reprint, foreign address | — | ₹959 |
| e-PAN PDF re-download (issued >30 days ago) | — | ₹8.26 |
| Instant e-PAN via income-tax portal | Online | Free |
Two fee facts worth knowing. The ₹50 reprint applies only when nothing on the card changes — a lost or damaged card carrying the same data. And correction requests are charged on the same schedule as new applications, around ₹101–107 for India, not at the reprint rate. We track the live figures on Protean's fee page, because processor fees do get revised from time to time.
A new PAN or correction to an Indian address costs you ₹300 with us, full stop. Roughly ₹101–107 of that reaches the government; the rest pays for the work — checking every character against your Aadhaar, choosing the right processor and route, filing it correctly the first time, and chasing it until the card arrives. If a processor fee is revised upward, that is our problem to absorb within the ₹300, not a surprise we pass to you mid-job.
A correction — formally a change request — updates the data held against your PAN. The number itself never changes. You tick only the fields being corrected, attach proof of the changed data, and a fresh card is printed with the same ten characters on it. Sounds simple. The failure mode is always the proof: the processor wants a document from its prescribed list that establishes the new value, and "my Aadhaar says so" is frequently not enough.
Name change after gazette publication. This is our home ground. When a name or surname has been changed through the Gujarat Government Gazette, the published notification is the proof the PAN processor wants. The sequence matters: gazette first, then PAN change request with the gazette copy attached, then a cascade of updates to Aadhaar, bank and employer records so every database agrees. We run the gazette-for-PAN process end to end from this office, and if you have not started the gazette yet, that page is where to begin. For a marriage name change, the marriage certificate is generally accepted directly, without a gazette — one of the few shortcuts in this field that actually exists.
Date of birth correction. Post-April-2026, the proof must be a birth certificate, passport, driving licence or matriculation certificate carrying the full date. School-leaving certificates from Gujarat boards work well here. Aadhaar does not, whatever an older website tells you.
Father's name, photo and signature. Faded card photos from the 1990s, signatures that no longer match the bank's records, a father's name spelt three ways — all fixable on the same change-request form, each with its own proof requirement.
Address updates. The address on PAN records determines where the card is delivered and which assessing officer holds your file. Moving within Vadodara or beyond, the update is straightforward with current address proof.
We verify your proofs against the prescribed list, complete the change-request form ticking only the fields that change, submit online through Protean, and track the acknowledgement to delivery. Where the case started as a name change, we usually plan the whole chain with you on day one — gazette, PAN, then Aadhaar — because doing them in the wrong order creates the very mismatches that block applications. The background reading, if you want it before messaging us: PAN correction, explained covers the mechanics, and Aadhaar update rules covers the other half of the chain.
Walk-ins ask us about this weekly, usually after a bank has refused something. The position as of July 2026:
Everyone allotted a PAN on or before 1 July 2017 who is eligible for Aadhaar was required to link the two. The free window closed on 30 June 2023; linking now requires a ₹1,000 late fee, paid through e-Pay Tax on the e-filing portal before the Link Aadhaar request will process. Separately, people who obtained PAN using an Aadhaar enrolment ID — rather than the Aadhaar number itself — had until 31 December 2025 to supply their actual Aadhaar number. Those who missed it saw their PANs go inoperative from 1 January 2026, and no extension has been announced.
An inoperative PAN is not a cosmetic problem. Refunds stop. Interest on refunds stops. TDS gets deducted at higher rates — 20% in many cases where the normal rate would be far lower — and bank or investment KYC starts failing in ways that look random until someone checks the PAN status. We have seen fixed deposits held up and property transactions delayed over exactly this.
Reactivation is mechanical but unforgiving of shortcuts: pay the ₹1,000, submit the linking request, wait. The portal indicates the PAN becomes operative within roughly thirty days, sometimes sooner. Residents of Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and Meghalaya, non-residents, non-citizens and anyone aged 80 or above are exempt from the linking requirement altogether.
Most linking failures we see are not payment problems — they are data problems. The name or date of birth on PAN does not match Aadhaar, so the link request bounces even after the fee is paid. The fix is a correction on whichever record is wrong, then the link. If this is you, send both documents on WhatsApp and we will tell you which side needs correcting before you spend the ₹1,000.
Nine years of doing this work produces a short, stable list of failure causes. None of them are exotic.
Every one of these is preventable with twenty minutes of careful document comparison before submission. That comparison is, in plain terms, the core of what you pay a professional for.
₹300, all in, for a new PAN or a correction to an Indian address — the government processing fee from the table above is inside that figure, not bolted on at the end. It stays ₹300 whether your job is a straightforward Form 93 filing or a name change that has to be reconciled against a published gazette notification. The only two exceptions are stated plainly further up this page: dispatch to a foreign address, and the ₹1,000 statutory late fee for PAN–Aadhaar linking, which is paid to the Income Tax Department rather than to us. You will not discover a charge after the fact, because there is nothing left to discover.
PAN is allotted by the Income Tax Department through its appointed processors. No agent can speed up processor verification, guarantee an issue date, get a rejected proof accepted, or make an inoperative PAN operative without the prescribed fee and linking. Our value is on the front end — correct forms, matched documents, the right route, and follow-up that does not stop until the card is in your hand. Approval always rests with the department.
If your PAN issue is part of a larger chain — a name change touching passport, Aadhaar and bank records at once — start with our services overview or message us directly. Sequencing the chain correctly at the start is worth more than any single application done fast.
You now know the process, the documents and the pitfalls. What we add is nine years of doing this daily — and one flat ₹300 to take the whole job off your desk, government fee included. The advice costs nothing; the time you save is yours.
Send photos of your documents on WhatsApp. We will tell you whether the free route works for you, what proof the new rules demand, the exact government fee, and our fixed professional fee — all before you commit to anything.