Check a PAN’s AAAAA9999A format and read what its fourth letter says about the holder
Runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere. Updated on 25 Oct 2026.Every PAN is ten characters in the pattern AAAAA9999A. The fourth letter gives the holder type: P for an individual, C for a company, H for a Hindu Undivided Family, F for a firm, and six more. Type a PAN to check the pattern and read each part. The tenth character is a check letter whose formula is not published, so only the Income Tax portal’s Verify Your PAN can confirm a PAN exists.
The page opens with PAN selected; type the ten-character PAN into the box.
Read the headline, which names the holder type when the format is valid.
See the Series, Holder type, Name initial, Number and Check letter parts explained.
Confirm the PAN exists with Verify Your PAN on the Income Tax e-filing portal, linked below.
Most Indian identifiers have a structure you can check before a form is submitted. This page reads six of them, tells which one you pasted from its shape, names each part, and tests the check digit where one exists and is published.
For a GSTIN the page shows the arithmetic behind the check character, position by position. The state code is read against the GST portal's list, and the embedded PAN's fourth letter gives the holder type: P for an individual, C for a company, F for a firm, and so on.
What a pass does not mean matters more. A correct format and check digit prove that the number was copied without a typo. They do not prove it was ever issued, that it is still active, or that it belongs to the person or business in front of you. Each result links to the official service that answers that question: Search Taxpayer on the GST portal, Verify Your PAN on the Income Tax e-filing portal, Verify Aadhaar on UIDAI's myAadhaar, the RBI's IFSC search, and India Post's Know Your PIN Code. For a UPI ID there is no public lookup, and the name your UPI app shows before you pay is the check.
The rest of the article, and all 6 questions about India ID Number Validator, are on the India ID Number Validator page.
No. A correct format and check digit only prove the number was copied without a typo. Whether it was issued, is active, or belongs to a given person or business is known only to the issuer: use Search Taxpayer on the GST portal, Verify Your PAN on the Income Tax e-filing portal, or Verify Aadhaar on UIDAI's myAadhaar.
The fourth character of a PAN gives the type of holder: P for an individual, C for a company, H for a Hindu Undivided Family, F for a firm, A for an association of persons, T for a trust, B for a body of individuals, L for a local authority, J for an artificial juridical person and G for government.
No. Every check runs in your browser and the page makes no network request with what you type. An Aadhaar number is shown masked to its last four digits, nothing typed is kept in browser storage, and share links never include an Aadhaar number, PAN, GSTIN or UPI ID.
RBI defines the IFSC as 11 characters: four letters for the bank, then the digit 0, then six characters for the branch. The zero is fixed, so an IFSC with a letter O in fifth place has been mistyped. An IFSC has no check digit, so RBI's IFSC search is the way to confirm the branch.
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