Aadhaar-pan linking: 2 more days to go, govt unlikely to extend date
Aadhaar-PAN
linking-Two more days left to
link Aadhaar with PAN as the income tax department is unlikely to extend the
deadline beyond August 31.Tax payers will have to link their PAN with Aadhaar
by the stipulated deadline as the Supreme Court verdict on privacy has no
bearing on the requirement, UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey said on the day the
apex court pronounced the historic Right to Privacy ruling.
Tax department had
extended the deadline till August 31, but cautioned that returns would not be
processed until the “linkage of Aadhaarwith PAN is done“. The deadline was
extended as there were complaints that taxpayers were unable to link the Aadhaar
number with PAN because of different names in the two databases.According to
The Economics Times, tax department said there was no move to extend the date
now as enough time had been provided to link PAN and Aadhaar.
For your convenience,
the tax department has introduced a one-page form for taxpayers to manually
apply for linking their Aadhaar with Permanent Account Number (PAN), apart from the available online and SMS
facilities."The form is just another procedure, via the paper medium, to
link the Aadhaar with the PAN database," a tax department official said.
The government, under
the Finance Act 2017, has made it mandatory for taxpayers to quote Aadhaar or
enrolment ID of Aadhaar application form for filing of Income-Tax returns
(ITR). According to the government, "the uniqueness of Aadhaar helps in
elimination of duplicates and fakes from any beneficiary database, which is
what makes it suitable for eliminating fake PANs as well."
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