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 ...