TAN/PAN compliance tightens reporting and mandates higher withholding where PAN is not furnished, while shortening correction windows.
Clause 397 mandates TAN application and mandatory TAN quoting by deductors/collectors, requires payees/payers to furnish a PAN (with enacted text adding a "valid" PAN requirement), prescribes higher withholding/collection rates where PAN is not furnished subject to enumerated exceptions, requires timely deposit of deducted/collected tax and filing of prescribed statements, provides a correction statement mechanism with a time limit, sets special reporting duties for payments to non residents and small interest payments by banks/co operatives/public companies, and preserves collector liability for unpaid but collectible tax.