Key Highlights

  • Aadhaar-PAN linkage has now become mandatory starting from today.
  • Linking Aadhaar to PAN cards is still available on income tax department's website.
  • IT department has also issued a manual form filling process to link the two unique numbers.

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After a lot of misnomers stating that June 30 was the last day to link your PAN card to your Aadhaar card, the income tax department has issued a few other methods wherein a person can link the two cards.

An earlier notification by the government simply said that it will become mandatory for taxpayers to link the existing Aadhaar card numbers with PAN cards from July 1.

The deadline so to say was only for those who wished to file taxes without linking the two cards. For instance if a person were to file tax returns even on June 30, he/she would not require to link Aadhaar with PAN.

Tax payers who will file for IT returns post July 1 will now require to link the two or provide the UIDAI number in the e-ITR (electronic-Income Tax Return) form and this will be considered as a valid linking of the two unique numbers. The rest have time till December 2017 to link the cards.

HERE.

The earlier link that read, ‘Link Aadhaar!’ does not appear on the income tax page any more. Rather it has been renamed to ‘Go to E-filing website for PAN-Aadhaar Linkage’ and appears fourth in queue under ‘Important Links.’

People do not need to sign in to link the two cards.

After clicking on the link, a pop-up will appear as below.

Follow any of these steps to link your Aadhaar with PAN