---
id: "in_tan"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["finances", "government"]
country: ["IN"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 55
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/in_tan"
---

# Indian Tax Deduction and Collection Account Number (TAN) (`in_tan`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Ten-character number that the Indian Income Tax Department issues to persons and organizations that must deduct or collect tax at source. It must be quoted on TDS and TCS returns, payments and certificates. It has four letters, five digits and a letter. The first three letters stand for the city or state of issue and the fourth is the first letter of the deductor's name.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Finances and banking (finances), Government related (government)
- Countries: India (IN)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{4}\d{5}[A-Z]$
```

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Deduction_and_Collection_Account_Number>

## Quality

Score 55/100. Missing: examples, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/in_tan.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IN/finances/in_tan.yaml>