Steps To Link PAN With Aadhaar Before April 1, 2023 To Prevent Your PAN From Being Inoperative

All PAN holders who do not fall into the exempt category have until March 31, 2023, to link their PANs with their Aadhaar, after which time their PANs would no longer be valid starting April 1, 2023

The I-T department said that taxpayers who failed to link PAN with Aadhaar are liable to pay a fee of Rs 500 till June,30, 2022, and thereafter a fee of Rs 1,000 will be applicable before submission of PAN-Aadhaar linkage request. ( Image Source :UIDAI )

In case you have not linked your PAN card with Aadhaar card till now, you need to do so before April 1, 2023, to prevent your PAN from being inoperative. According to the Income-Tax (I-T) Act of 1961, all PAN holders who do not fall into the exempt category have until March 31, 2023, after which time their PANs would no longer be valid starting on April 1, 2023, if they have not linked their PANs with Aadhaar.

In a recent tweet, the I-T department said, "All PAN holders, those who do not come under the exempt category as per the Notifications No. 37/2017, dated 11th May, 2017 and who have not linked their Aadhaar with PAN yet, are requested to do so immediately. PAN can be linked with a valid Aadhaar on www.incometax.gov.in after paying a fee of Rs 1,000."

On its website, the I-T department has said, "Every person who has been allotted a PAN as on July 1, 2017, and is eligible to obtain Aadhaar number is required to link PAN with Aadhaar on or before March, 31, 2022. Taxpayers who failed to do so are liable to pay a fee of Rs 500 till June 30, 2022 and thereafter a fee of Rs 1,000 will be applicable before submission of PAN-Aadhaar linkage request."

Steps to link PAN card with an Aadhaar card

Visit “https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/" and under the ‘Quick Links’ section, click on ‘Link Aadhaar’

Enter your PAN and Aadhaar number on the required fields and then click on ‘Validate’

If the message ‘PAN is already linked with the Aadhaar or with some other Aadhaar’ pops up on your screen, it means your Adhaar is already linked with PAN

If your PAN is not linked to your Aadhaar and you have paid a challan on the NSDL Portal

The fee payment for PAN-Aadhaar Linkage need to be made through e-Pay Tax functionality available on e-filing Portal

If you have Axis Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Central Bank of India, Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Karur Vysya Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank accounts, please follow below steps:

Provide your PAN, Confirm PAN and Mobile number to receive OTP

Post OTP verification, you will be redirected to a page showing different payment tiles

Click Proceed on the Income Tax tile

Select AY and Type of Payment - as other Receipts (500) and Continue

Enter the amount as Rs. 1000 under 'Others' field in tax break-up and proceed with further steps

If you have Other bank accounts (bank is not listed for payment through e-Pay tax), please follow below steps

Click on hyperlink ‘Click here to go to NSDL (Protean) tax payment page for other banks’ given below on e-Pay tax page to redirect to Protean (NSDL) portal

Click Proceed under Challan No./ITNS 280

Select (0021) Income Tax (Other than Companies) under Tax Applicable (Major Head)

Select (500) Other Receipts) under Type of Payment (Minor Head)

Provide other mandatory details and Proceed

You are required to wait 4-5 working days before submitting the linkage request if the payment details are not authenticated on the e-filing portal and if you have already paid the amount on the NSDL portal.

After the payment, the information will be validated by electronic filing

You will receive a pop-up notification stating that "Your payment details are verified" after confirming your PAN and Aadhaar.

Click the Link Aadhaar option, and then enter the 6-digit OTP received on your mobile phone number

After successfully submitting your request for an Aadhaar-PAN link, you may now check its status.

Here is how you can check PAN and Aadhaar linkage status

Visit “https://www.incometax.gov.in/iec/foportal/" and under the ‘Quick Links’ section, click on ‘Link Aadhaar Status’.

Enter your PAN and Aadhaar Number, and then click on the ‘View Link Aadhaar Status’ option.

Your PAN and Aadhaar linkage status will be displayed on the screen upon successful validation.

PAN Holders should note that they need to check the status again if the UIDAI is still processing their request to link PAN and Aadhaar for confirmation.