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Gopi P Community Member

Unable to verify your Tax ID number on Upwork

Please check my Legal Taxpayer Name. Now I verified the legal name and PAN number. Please check and approve.

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Avery O Community Manager

Hi Abdul, 

 

The TAX ID (PAN) status is under "Pending Verification" until we have a manual verification for PAN. Once you enter a PAN number, you will automatically get a reduced withholding tax of 1% regardless of the PAN "Pending Verification" status. There is no further action needed on your end. 


~ Avery

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Racha gundla prasa b Community Member

hI Valeria, can i please request a legal name change as i am unable to get my pan details verified 

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Andrea G Community Manager

Hi Racha,

 

I checked but it doesn't look like you've added your PAN to your account yet. Could you please try it and let us know if the verification fails?

 

~Andrea
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Tural B Community Member

okay

Tural Babashov
Krishna Chaitanya's avatar
Krishna Chaitanya K Community Member

I am from india, i am unable to update the Legal Taxpayer name.

Due to this always my PAN verification failed.

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Joanne P Moderator

Hi Krishna Chaitany,

 

I checked your account and it looks like you have submitted a ticket to our team about this issue. Please allow time for our team to check and get back to you on the same ticket to assist you further. 

~ Joanne
Upwork
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Tural B Community Member

I also

Tural Babashov
Brijesh's avatar
Brijesh K Community Member

Hi, 

 

The wrong TDS is about to charged for my transaction and I like to update it before the transaction happens

Andrea's avatar
Andrea G Community Manager

Hi Brijesh,

 

It looks like you were able to add your PAN. Once you enter a PAN number, you will automatically get a reduced withholding tax of 1% regardless of the PAN "Pending Verification" status. There is no further action needed on your end. 

 

~Andrea
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Tural B Community Member

What is TDS?

 

Tural Babashov
Taylor's avatar
Taylor M Community Member

Hi Gopi, My legal business name is too long for the "business name" box and so my tax number is not being verified.  How do I solve this?

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Nikola S Moderator

Hi Taylor,

 

One of our team members will reach out to you directly via a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your tickets on this page.

~ Nikola
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Tural B Community Member

You can make it short

Tural Babashov
Harmin's avatar
Harmin P Community Member

Please Help me with PAN ID verification. I tried 4 times it still cannot be verified I have checked W-8BEN form as well, It is still pending. Please Help!!!

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Nirmala D Community Member

I have added valid PAN number and legal tax payer name in tax information section but pan number showing "Pan Pending Verification". Please check attached screenshot and let me know how to verify pan detail.

 

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Pradeep H Moderator

Hi Nirmala,

 

Thanks for reaching out. If you've managed to add either your PAN or Aadhaar number successfully, i.e. it was accepted and you didn't get an error message, you're good to go! No further action on the Upwork platform is necessary.

 

Thank you,

Pradeep

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Tural B Community Member

👍

Tural Babashov
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Qasim M Community Member

Why upwork is not verifying my PAN ID?I added it second times and still it shows pending.I am not getting any response from contact support too. 

PAN verification 

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Nikola S Moderator

Hi Mohamad,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us. Please allow more time for our team to review your case and respond accordingly to your ticket. You will be notified of their response.

~ Nikola
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Harsh A Community Member

Hey there, 
I am a freelancer based in India, Acc to the rules, upwork needs to pay 5% TDS if the freelancer has not added a PAN ID, but only 1% if the freelancer has added PAN.

I added my PAN ID, which has also been verified, yet 5% withholding tax was deducted. Can anyone look into this? 

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Annie Jane B Retired Team Member

Hi Harsh,

 

I shared your report with our team and one of our agents will reach out to you via a support ticket to assist you further. You can access your support tickets here.


~ AJ
Upwork
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Zeeshan K Community Member

Hey, 

 

For some reason, in my Tax Information section, I see PAN pending verification for the past 3 days. 

 

I have already added the pan cart details when I created the account but for some reason, pan card verification is still showing me pending then 3 days back I updated the pan card again but it is still showing pending.

 

I check from this link 

https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/360044709894-Indian-Tax-Deducted-at-Source-TDS-or-Withh...

if I did not provide a pan cart withholding tax will be 5%.

 

withholding tax is deducted from my account again and again.  

 

I would greatly appreciate any help or advice.

 

Thank you.

Zeeshan

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Andrea G Community Manager

Hi Zeeshan,

 

The TAX ID (PAN) status is under "Pending Verification" until we have a manual verification for PAN. Once you enter a PAN number, you will automatically get a reduced withholding tax of 1% regardless of the PAN "Pending Verification" status. There is no further action needed on your end. 

 

~Andrea
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Abbas Ali M Community Member

 
Arjay's avatar
Arjay M Retired Team Member

Hi Abbas,

 

I have checked your account and it looks like your PAN is currently on a pending verification status. Please note that we cannot directly verify your tax information. Once you add the information to your Upwork account, we submit it to the Indian Tax authorities for verification. If you added your PAN number, it was accepted, and you didn't get an error message, you're all set. There is no further action needed on your end. 

 

~ Arjay
Upwork
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Abbas Ali M Community Member

Thanks for the reply Arjay, I have seen this script before on other threads also but nowhere is mentioned how much time it exactly takes to get verified?

 

Some of them have been waiting for months as pending verification. Does that mean I'll end up paying 5% TDS for the rest of this life and 1% is just smoke and mirrors?

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