PAN Aadhaar Link: 17 crore cards may become useless if this Income Tax Department's instruction is not followed

PAN Aadhaar Link: The Income Tax Department has made it mandatory for all Permanent Account Number (PAN) and Aadhaar Card-holders to link both before 31st of March 2020. In case you have failed to do so, the Income Tax Department will have no choice but to make your PAN card inoperative. The Income Tax Department made the announcement on its official Twitter handle and asked Indian citizens to do the PAN Aadhaar link by 31st of March 2020. Last month, the Income Tax Department had reprimanded 17 crore PAN cardholders to do their PAN Aadhaar link as they were not linked.

In its latest tweet from its official Twitter handle, the Income Tax Department said, "Don't miss the deadline! It is mandatory to link your PAN and Aadhaar before 31st March, 2020. You can do it through Biometric Aadhaar authentication & also by visiting the PAN service centers of NSDL and UTITSL #PANAadhaarLinking." In this tweet, the income tax department also gave the link — incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/e-FilingGS/Services/LinkAadhaarHome.html — where one can do the PAN Aadhaar link online.

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In this tweet, the Income Tax Department has uploaded a video that teaches these 17 crore PAN card holders about the various ways through which they can do the PAN Aadhaar link online. For doing the PAN Aadhaar link online one needs to go at the official income tax e-filing website — incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/. Then, they need to follow the instructions given in the video tweeted by the Income Tax Department.

See Income Tax Department tweet below:

Don't miss the deadline!

It is mandatory to link your PAN and Aadhaar before 31st March, 2020.
You can do it through Biometric Aadhaar authentication & also by visiting the PAN service centers of NSDL and UTITSL #PANAadhaarLinking

Link: https://t.co/JudH8IqpQb pic.twitter.com/igAfV8vJUi

— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) March 16, 2020

For further information to the readers, PAN Aadhaar link can be done through an SMS also. For PAN Aadhaar link through the SMS, one needs to send an SMS at 567678 or 56161. Format of the SMS is as follows:

UIDAIPAN(12digit Aadhaar number) space (10 digit PAN Number).

Means if someone has an Aadhaar Card number ABCDXXXXXXXXXX and PAN Card number ABCXXXXXXX then the format of the SMS will be "UIDAIPANABCDXXXXXXXXXX ABCXXXXXXX".