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After the government publishes a reliable translated text in English through an official gazette, we will incorporate the Authentic English Text here.

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184B. Tax-payer’s identification number:

(1) Every assessee or any person who applies manually or electronically for a Taxpayer’s Identification Number will be issued a certificate containing twelve-digit Taxpayer’s Identification Number and such other particulars in such manner as may be prescribed:

Provided that twelve-digit Tax-payer’s Identification Number may be issued without any application where any income tax authority has found a person having taxable income during the year and possesses such necessary information of that person for issuance of twelve-digit Tax-payer’s Identification Number.

(2) Board may, by general or special order in writing, direct any person or classes of persons who already hold a Tax-payer's Identification Number to furnish such information or documents for the purpose of re-registration and thereafter issue twelve-digit a new Taxpayer's Identification Number.

(3) Every existing assessee having ten-digit Tax-payer’s Identification Number or a Temporary Registration Number (TRN) shall have to obtain twelve-digit Tax-payer’s Identification Number (TIN) before the last date of submission of return of income as required under section 75.