Deadline to add PAN-Aadhaar extended to June 2021: IT Department

The Income Tax Department has on Wednesday extended the last date for linking the Permanent Account Number (PAN) with Aadhaar to June 30, 2021.

The earlier deadline was March 31, 2021.

“The central government extends the last date for linking the Aadhaar number with PAN from March 31, 2021 to June 30, 2021,” the department said on its official Twitter handle.

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“The date of issue of notices under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the passage of guidelines issued by the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) and the processing of equivalent levy statements were also extended till April 30, 2021,” he said .

This is the ninth time that the time limit has been extended for individuals to link their PAN to Aadhaar.

The Supreme Court in September last year declared the Centre’s flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid and said that biometric ID would remain mandatory for filing IT returns and for allotment of PAN.

Section 139AA (2) of the Income Tax Act states that every person holding PAN on 1 July 2017 and eligible to receive Aadhaar, must intimate his Aadhaar number to the tax authorities.

Aadhaar is issued by the Resident of India and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and PAN is a 10-digit alphanumeric number allotted to an individual, firm or institution by the IT department.

()With inputs from PTI)