UNIQUE DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (UDIN)

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• Unique Document Identification Number (UDIN) is a unique number given to documents attested by Chartered Accountants in Practice. It is an 18 digits system generated unique number which shall generated separately for each document.
  
  
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), in its gazette notification dated 2nd August, 2019, had made generation of UDIN from ICAI website mandatory for every kind of certificate/tax audit report and other attests made by their members as required by various regulators.
  
  
• This was introduced to curb fake certifications by non-CAs misrepresenting themselves as Chartered Accountants.