Income Tax Department on monday issued a public message saying it was "mandatory" to link PAN with Aadhaar and advised people not to "miss" the stipulated deadline of march 31.The department had last month said Permanent Account Number (PAN) will become "inoperative" if it is not linked with Aadhaar by this date. Don't miss the deadline.
"It is mandatory to link your PAN and Aadhaar before 31st march, 2020. You can do it through biometric Aadhaar authentication & also by visiting the PAN service centers of NSDL and UTITSL," the department said in the latest post on social media. In a video, attached with the message on its social media handle IncomeTaxIndia, it said such a linking is for a "beneficial tomorrow".The video described that there are two ways to complete this task:
1. Send SMS to 567678 or 56161 in the format: UIDPAN
2. Through e-filing portal of the department:www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), that frames policy for the I-T department, had extended the deadline for this task for the eighth time on december 30 last year. The supreme court had in september 2019 declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid and held that the biometric ID would remain mandatory for the filing of tax returns and allotment of PAN. Aadhaar is issued by the Unique Identification Authority of india (UIDAI) to a resident of india and PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number allotted by the I-T department to a person, firm or entity.As per official data updated till january 27, over 30.75 crore PANs have been linked to Aadhaar.
