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Jun 10, 2025
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New ITR Utility: Is landlord’s PAN card needed for claiming HRA while filing income tax return?
Every salaried employee who has an HRA component in salary and who wants to claim house rent allowance (HRA) income tax benefits need to submit the PAN number of the landlord if the annual rent is above Rs 1 lakh. Failing to submit the landlord's PAN to your employer for claiming rent HRA tax exemption, will result in losing the tax exemption.
Also submitting a false PAN number of landlords will result in you getting a tax notice and also losing the HRA tax exemption altogether. Earlier, the online ITR form or its utility did not have field to give details regarding the HRA. However, it has changed now, the income tax department has revised the utility, and it now requires taxpayers to give more details of the HRA claim by salaried employees. So does this mean that you have to give the landlord’s PAN card details while filing ITR?
Read below to know more about the importance of landlord’s PAN for your rent HRA tax exemption claim and what are the new compliance requirements for rent HRA tax exemption introduced in ITR filing of this year.
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