This is the seventh time the Centre has extended the deadline for individuals to link their PAN with Aadhaar; it is now mandatory to link the two unique IDs for income tax purposes

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) of Ministry of Finance has made it mandatory to link 12-digit Aadhaar number with the 10-digit PAN card in order to file income tax returns.

PAN-Aadhaar link: The deadline for linking the PAN card and Aadhaar card had been extended several times in the past and another extension does not seem likely.

The notification mentioned that CBDT would \"obtain demographic information of an individual from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)\" for allotting PAN

CBDT Chairman P C Mody said that the tax department does not need to undertake such measures as it can obtain various information and data sets from multiple agencies and possesses a strong data analytics setup

PAN-Aadhaar linking deadline: As per available data, 180 million out of the total 400 million existing PAN cards are still to be linked to the Aadhaar.

Union Budget 2019: Once this proposal will get green light in the Parliament, individuals will be able to use Aadhaar cards instead of PAN cards to conduct financial transactions, for instance, mutual fund investments, buying gold, and others.

Banks and other institutions will make backend upgrades to allow acceptance of Aadhaar in all places where quoting PAN is now mandatory, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said Saturday

Any resident entity, including HUF, company, trust or LLP, that made financial transactions of Rs 2.5 lakh in the past fiscal will have to apply for a PAN card by May 31. The rule also applies to people heading such entities or acting on behalf of them

In June last year, the government had said that PAN has to be linked with the biometric ID by March 31

Extending for the fifth time, the Income Tax department in last July had increased the deadline for individuals to link their PAN with Aadhaar till March 31, 2019.

The Supreme Court has also upheld the validity of Section 139AA, making Aadhaar-PAN link necessary for filing I-T returns.

It is mandatory to link Aadhaar card with PAN card before March 31, 2019.

To avoid disconnection of PAN or face problem in filing income tax, you should link Aadhaar with PAN before March 31, 2019.

Supreme Court has made it mandatory that Income Tax returns will be filed with Aadhaar and the last date for linking PAN with Aadhaar is March 31.

In India, financial year runs from 1st April to 31st March of next year. Hence, you need to prioritise your financial obligations until the due date arrives.

Back in July, the CBDT extended the deadline for the PAN-Aadhaar linking to March 31, 2019, so presumably this deadline stands till further notifications from the government.

The five-judge constitution bench of Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act which allowed not only the government but also any private entity to demand Aadhaar.

Paytm, on the other hand, has done a total of 98 million Aadhaar authentications.