Last updated on February 8th, 2022 at 03:12 am

Friends, the Aadhaar card is one of your important documents, but with it, another important work for you is that if you do not link Pan with Aadhar card by 31st March 2022, then your PAN card may also become inactive. Not only this, if you are using your Pan card without linking it to your Aadhaar card, then you may also have to pay a fine of up to Rs 10,000.

As the section 234H has been added to the Income Tax Act 1961, which has been passed by the government under the Finance Bill 2021 in the Lok Sabha on 23rd March. So the Government of India has made it mandatory to link Pan with Aadhar card before 31st March 2022. So if you have both Pan and Aadhar card documents, then you will have to link Pan with Aadhar card by 31st March 2022.

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What if You do not Link Pan with Aadhar Card?

If your PAN card is not linked to your Aadhaar card, then it will not be used wherever PAN card is required. This will affect all types of banking transactions, mutual funds, opening of demat accounts, opening of new bank accounts.

But the good thing is that you can link Pan with Aadhaar card both in offline and online process. So let us now tell you how can you link Pan with Aadhar card.

Things to Remember before Linking Pan with Aadhar card:

But before linking Pan with Aadhar card, make sure that your name spelling and date of birth are same in both pan and aadhar card. Otherwise, the system will not link your pan with aadhar card. So if there is any misspell, then first make the correction and then link Pan with Aadhar card.

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How to Link Pan with Aadhar card Offline?

If you want to link Pan with Aadhar card offline, then you have to send a message from your registered mobile number.

Type UIDPAN (space) 12 DIGIT AADHAR NUMBER (space) 10 DIGIT PAN NUMBER
Sent it to 567638 or 56161
After that, on your registered mobile number, you will get the message of linking of Pan with Aadhar card.

How to Link Pan with Aadhar card Online?

The above one is an offline process, now let us also tell you about the online process, how can you link Pan with Aadhar card online. To link online :

Visit the official site of Income Tax Department.
Now Click on the option ‘Link Aadhaar‘ under Quick Links Tab.
Fill all the details which has been asked like Pan Number, Aadhaar Number and Name exactly as you aadhaar.
Fill all the details which has been asked like Pan Number, Aadhaar Number and Name exactly as you aadhaar.
After filling the details, fill the captcha code and click on submit.
After that a request will be send to link your pan with aadhar card.

How To Check Pan and Aadhaar linking Status?

Now after completing any of the above online or offline process to link Pan with Aadhar card. You can check status, whether your pan and aadhar card has been linked or not.

Visit the official site of Income Tax Department.
Click on the option ‘Link Aadhaar‘ under Quick Links Tab.
On the Above, there is an option to check pan and aadhaar linking status, Click on that option.
Now you will be asked to fill both pan number and aadhaar number.
After filling the detail, click on the button ‘View Link Aadhaar Satus’, that’s all.

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Income tax experts say that now the date of linking the Pan with Aadhar card is not expected to go ahead as the budget proposals will come into effect from April 1st, 2022. In such a situation, the time limit is not likely to increase. If you do not link Pan with Aadhar card by 31st March 2022, you will be liable to pay the penalty.