June 30: You no longer have to rush to link your PAN with Aadhaar card as the Income Tax Department clarified that your PAN cards will not be invalid if it is not linked with Aadhaar by July 1. Earlier there were reports that the PAN cards will become invalid if it not tied-up with Aadhaar before July 1. In wake of the government making it clear that Aadhaars will be mandatory for filing Income Tax Returns and obtaining a new PAN from July 1, a lot of queries and doubts had arisen with people complaining that they were not able to link their Aadhaar with their PAN.
While PAN cards will not become invalid automatically after July 1, the Aadhaar-PAN linking would become mandatory. It has also been reported that the government may soon declare a date after which the PAN not linked to Aadhaar will become invalid.
