Income Tax payer? Alert! Your PAN card might be cancelled if you fail to do this
The Supreme Court has made it mandatory to file the Income Tax returns with Aadhaar card and has asked people to get it linked with their PAN cards before March 31, but the numbers are not rising.
The Supreme Court has made it mandatory to file the Income Tax returns with Aadhaar card and has asked people to get it linked with their PAN cards before March 31, but the numbers are not rising. However, income tax returns filers must beware and should rush to make the linkage. Or else they will suffer consequences. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Sushil Chandra, while addressing an Assocham event on Thursday said that only 23 crore PAN card holders have so far linked their cards with biometric ID Aadhaar, even as the deadline to link the two comes to an end on March 31, 2019. This means more than half of PAN card holders are yet to get their cards linked. They should definitely get it done as soon as possible.
Now, as per Chandra, all these people could be in big trouble as CBDT might even consider to cancel their PAN. "By linking with Aadhaar, We will know whether there are any duplicate PANs or not. And there are certain duplicate PANs... If it is not linked, we may cancel the PAN also," he warned.
Chandra said that once Aadhaar is linked with PAN and PAN is linked with bank account, the I-T department can find out spending pattern and other details of the assessee. He said that it would also be easier to gauge whether the benefits of welfare schemes are availed by eligible persons.
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He added that this year 6.31 crore returns have been filed, which is much more than 5.44 crore persons who had filed last year.
"It is not absolutely true that if we reduce tax rates, compliance goes up. During this year we have followed the policy of finding the non-filers... We have got third party information and we are checking whether persons are filing returns or not, whether adequate income being shown," he said.
The Supreme Court in September last year had declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid. A five-judge constitution bench had pronounced that it would not be mandatory to link Aadhaar to bank accounts and telecom service providers cannot seek its linking for mobile connections.
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