The government has made it mandatory to link PAN card with Aadhaar by March 31, 2023. If you do not link it till this date, then your PAN card will be deactivated.
At the same time, without this, you will not be able to process the income tax return. It is also necessary for doing banking transactions above Rs 50,000. This has been tweeted recently by the Income Tax Department.
Let us tell you that till now many people have not linked PAN card with Aadhaar. However, now you will have to pay a fee of Rs 1,000 to link your Aadhaar with PAN card. You can link it online sitting at home. Here we are telling you the complete process of linking Aadhaar with PAN.
How to link PAN card to Aadhaar online To link PAN card with Aadhaar online , first you have to go to the official website of Income Tax Department. After this, you will have to login by clicking on the link base option of the website. Here you have to enter your name and date of birth as per Aadhaar card along with PAN number and user ID.
Then on going to the profile setting of your account, select the option of Aadhaar card link. Here you enter your Aadhaar number and captcha code. After this, you will get the option of ‘Link Aadhaar’ below, you have to click on it. In this way your PAN card will be linked with Aadhaar.
Now you will have to pay a fine of Rs 1000.
The deadline for linking PAN card with Aadhaar has now been extended to 31 March 2023. Earlier, the Income Tax Department had fixed July 1, 2022 as the deadline for linking PAN with Aadhaar. Now you will also have to pay a fine of Rs 1000 for linking PAN with Aadhaar.
Exemption has been given to these people
It is mandatory for everyone to link Aadhaar with PAN, but some people have been given exemption in this. Actually, under the Income Tax Act 1961, some people have been given relief in linking PAN with Aadhaar. This includes people of Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Meghalaya, non-resident Indians and people of 80 years or more and foreign nationals etc.
