With the advent of digitisation everything is now online and in soft format. We now get a soft copy of most documents and to prevent its misuse all these documents are password protected.
With ITR acknowledgment to Income Tax notice to Aadhar card. All of them are password protected. Since each of these documents has become a daily part of our lives we need them every then and now. Although all the documents in soft copy have made our lives easy but remembering the password for each of them is a big headache.
Here is a summary of most common password combination used for protection of these documents.
| List of passwords needed to open various compliance documents | |
| Documents | Password Format |
| ITR V | PAN number (lowercase alphabet) and DOB (in DDMMYYYY) format without any space |
| Form 16/16A/27D/TBR | PAN (first 5 letters in uppercase) and DOB (in DDMMYYYY format) |
| Form 16B | Date of birth of the BUYER (in DDMMYYYY format) |
| Form 26AS | Date of Birth (in DDMMYYYY format) |
| Intimation/Order from Income Tax | PAN no. alongwith DOB in lowercase |
| Intimation received through email | First four letters of TAN_Date of Filing of regular statement (DDMMYYYY) |
| Extracting TDS consolidation file | TAN number and request number |
| PAN card | PAN number (lowercase alphabet) and DOB in (DDMMYYYY) format |
| Aadhar card | First four letters of your name in CAPITAL letters and your year of birth (YYYY) |
| Extracting Justification report | JR_[TAN]_[Form Type]_[Quarter]_[FY] |
| Extracting TDS certificates zip file | TAN in uppercase |
| Extracting 26AS zip file | Date of Birth in DDMMYYYY format |
| Extracting TDS provisional receipt/acknowledgement | TAN number in lowercase |
Hope the above list of password proves handy the next time you forget the password for any of the abovementioned documents.
