What is the difference between active and operative, inactive and inoperative for pan card?
An active PAN card means a PAN card which was approved and issued and is not canceled or deactivated by the Income Tax department.
If PAN is not linked with Aadhaar, the department will deactivate PAN.
Difference between active and inactive PAN
How to deactivate a PAN?
Sometime you may want to cancela a PAN card due to various reason such as death of pan holder or having multiple PAN cards. You can cancel a pan by applying on NSDL website.
Nonoperating PAN is same as deactivated PAN.
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