How to Find Professional Tax Number?

A professional tax number is a unique identification number assigned by the government to individuals and businesses, allowing them to pay professional tax. I did not know about it or its relevance until the tax was deducted from my salary. After much research, I learned how to check professional tax number in West Bengal. You can visit the state tax portal and get it.

How To Find Out Professional Tax Registration Number In West Bengal?

To get your professional tax registration number in West Bengal

• Visit the State tax portal:

  https://egov.wbcomtax.gov.in/PT_PaymentCertificate/

• Enter your Enrollment No./ Registration No./ Income Tax Permanent Account No.

• Click on the check box against: I do not remember my PT Enrolment/Registration number. I currently have my VAT/CST number.

• Enter your VAT number

• Click on Submit and get your professional tax number next

This should be enough to help you understand how to know professional tax number in West Bengal. You can visit your state’s respective portal and get to know your professional tax number by following these similar steps as well.

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Professional tax is a type of tax that is levied by state governments in India on individuals who earn a salary or engage in a profession, trade, calling, or employment. It is a direct tax imposed on the income earned by professionals and is typically deducted by the employer from the employee's salary. I learned how to find professional tax number online after joining a new company last year. Rs 200 was getting deducted from my salary as my salary was Rs 15K plus so I tried to figure out every detail about professional tax in Bangalore. Simply know how to search professional tax number by pan number and extract every detail yourself.

How can one know their tax number?

Karnataka has a portal from where you can learn what is the amount of professional tax. Here is the portal:

Just scroll down to the bottom and click on professional tax board and get to know everything about the amount and professional tax e-filing system.

How to know my professional tax number?

To know your professional tax number, you will have to visit your state’s relevant portal and get it. For example, if you are from Karnataka, visit the

• e-Prerana portal

• Click on the New RC Request option on the right-hand side

• Choose request type

• Enter your PAN number and PT office

• Type your name as on PAN correctly

You will get to know everything about your professional tax there.

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There are so many taxes in India that it may get confusing to understand and differentiate between all of them. I got really confused when I saw on my pay slip it was mentioned “professional tax.” I went to the HR to understand what it meant and the HR guy was kind enough to let me know what it was about. So I asked him at the very same time about how to find professional tax number so that I could track my liabilities, if any. He taught me to look for it too. I am going to explain what worked for me here. Please read and share this with your friends who struggle with this problem.

Professional tax is a tax which is levied on any sort of profession, trade or employment. It is applicable on businessmen, freelancers, professionals, service providers, and employed people if they exceed monetary threshold. The point to note here is that this tax is levied by the state.

Now that you know what professional tax is, you might as well know the process for professional tax number search.

In Maharashtra, I had to visit the Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Department’s (MGSTD) web-site to register for the professional tax payment. Here is the process that I followed:

• Go to the MahaGST website at 

• Register on the website by creating a profile for new system

• Since I was registering as PTEC, I didn’t have to upload any documents. If you are registering under PTRC then you will need to submit Trade Circular 20T of 2017 Dt 16/6/2017

• After registration, I received an email confirmation containing digitally signed PTEC after getting TINs. 

• I had to check the TIN using my PAN number in RC download section.

So, the bottom line is you will have an email communication where you will be able to see your professional tax number easily using your Permanent Account Number. 

I hope this satisfies your query: how to find professional tax number.

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