With July 31 here, it is high time you file your IT returns for the 2017 fiscal. Of course, before you can go ahead with filing income tax returns, you need to link Aadhaar number[1] and PAN card as it became mandatory from July 1. According to a new amendment to the tax proposals in the Finance Bill for 2017-18, anyone who has a PAN card must provide their Aadhaar number to the principal director general of income tax (systems) or DGIT (systems). If you want to link the two but are not sure how to do it, you can use the e-facility launched by the Income Tax department[2], which is the easiest way to link the two. In fact, you don't even need to sign in to the IT website to link your Aadhaar number and PAN card[3].
How to Link Aadhaar and PAN card by SMS[4]
How to link PAN card with Aadhaar online
If you want to link your Aadhaar with PAN card, head over to the Income Tax e-filing portal[5] and follow the steps below:...
- On the website, click on the link on the left saying Link Aadhaar.
- Now, enter your PAN number, Aadhaar number, name as per Aadhaar, and the Captcha, and then click on Link Aadhaar.
- This should link the PAN and Aadhaar, but if there is any discrepancy in your details, you'll receive an Aadhaar OTP to confirm the linkage. Enter the OTP and click on Save to continue.
- You can also link the details after logging in to the income tax website. Log in as you normally would and then click on Profile Settings in