PAN Aadhaar link: In a big announcement today by FM Nirmala Sitharaman, the Central Government has extended the deadline for PAN-Aadhaar linking from 31st March 2020 to 30 June 2020. The Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman today made an announcement in this regard in a media briefing in New Delhi. She said that the Central Government has decided to extend the deadline for the Aadhaar-PAN link by next three months as a large number of PAN card holders have still not linked their card to their Aadhaar number.

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"The Union Government has decided to extend the deadline for PAN-Aadhaar linking from 30th March 2020 to 30th June 2020," said Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman in a press briefing today in New Delhi. She reminded people to meet this deadline for the PAN Aadhaar link as it is necessary for them.

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Earlier, the Income Tax Department had 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.

How to do PAN Aadhaar linking?

PAN Aadhaar link can be done through an SMS also. For the 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".