Income Tax Department: It’s now mandatory to link PAN-Aadhaar by Dec 31

The Income
Tax Department has said that it will be mandatory to link Permanent Account
Number (PAN) with Aadhaar by the end of this month. This will facilitate to
receive many benefits of income tax services.

The deadline
for linking PAN with Aadhaar was extended till the 31st of December, by Central
Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) through an order issued in September this year.
Earlier, the deadline was 30th of September.

In order to
link a PAN with Aadhaar online, the assesse is required to log in to the
e-filing portal. The Income Tax Department also provides an SMS-based facility
to enable the linking.

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.