PAN-Aadhaar Linking: Attention! PAN card not linked to Aadhaar will be 'inoperative' after September 30
PAN-Aadhaar Linking: The deadline to link your PAN cards to Aadhaar is September 30. Non-linked PAN cards will become "inoperative" after the deadline. As linking your Aadhaar with PAN card has now become mandatory for filing of Income Tax Returns.
Under Section 139AA (2), PAN number shall be deemed to be ‘invalid’ in case the person fails to link it to the Aadhaar number. It is important to note that income tax returns can't be filed without linking. The returns, however, will not be processed unless your PAN and Aadhaar are linked.
The last date of linking Aadhaar number and PAN is September 30, 2019, was notified by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on March 31, 2019. However, the deadline was previously extended from August 31, 2017, to December 31, 2017, and subsequently to March 31, 2018, followed by June 30, 2018.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her maiden Union Budget changed the PAN-Aadhar linking rules. The latest rules have been cited under the new Income tax law that was proposed in the Finance Bill 2019.
The Finance Bill says, "It is proposed to amend the said proviso so as provide that if a person fails to intimate the Aadhaar number, the permanent account number allotted to such person shall be made inoperative after the notified date in the manner as may be provided by rules. This amendment will take effect from 1st September 2019."
Note: If you have yet not linked your Aadhaar with PAN card, you can do it in two ways before September 30, 2019.
1. Online linking of Aadhaar with PAN card
You can link the two by visiting the income tax e-filing portal. There are two ways – either without logging in to your account or by registering/logging in to your account.
A. Linking Aadhaar with PAN without logging to your account
i) Visit the portal www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in
ii) Click on the link at the left side, which says ‘Link Aadhaar’
iii) Enter the required details, i.e. your PAN card number, Aadhaar number, your full name
iv) Verify your details and click on submit
v) The linking of your Aadhaar with PAN card will be confirmed from the UIDAI
B. Linking Aadhaar with PAN by logging in to your account
i) Visit the portal www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in and register/login to your account
ii) A pop-up window, prompting you to link your Aadhaar with PAN, will appear on the screen. You can go to the blue tab on the top bar named ‘Profile Settings’ and click on ‘Link Aadhaar’, in case you do not see the pop-up window
iii) Details that you already must have entered at the time of registering on to the portal will appear on the e-filing portal. You need to verify those details with that on your Aadhaar card
iv) Enter your Aadhaar card number, captcha code and click on ‘Link now’
v) You will receive a pop-up message, saying your Aadhaar has successfully been linked to your PAN card
2. Linking your Aadhaar and PAN via SMS
Taxpayers can easily link their Aadhaar with PAN through an SMS, as notified by the Income Tax Department. You may follow the below steps for the same
i) Send an SMS from your registered mobile number to 567678 or 56161 (any one of the given two numbers)
ii) The SMS should be in the format - UIDPAN<12-digit Aadhaar>10-digit PAN
iii) You will receive a confirmation message once the procedure is successfully completed.
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