Aadhar-PAN linking date extended to March 31 2018

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Dec 08, 2017, 02:51 PM

Aadhar-PAN linking date extended to March 31 2018

New Delhi Dec 8: In a move to ensure relief for people central government had extended the deadline of linking for mandatory linking of PAN with Aadhaar by three months to March 31, 2018.

The Centre had informed the Supreme Court that it is willing to extend until March 31 the deadline fixed for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to avail various services and welfare schemes.

Finance ministry had said that "It has come to notice that some of the taxpayers have not yet completed the linking of PAN with Aadhaar.Therefore, to facilitate the process of linking, it has been decided to further extend the time for linking of Aadhaar with PAN till March 31, 2018."

Currently 13.28 crore out of 33 crore PANs have been linked to the 12-digit biometric identifier Aadhaar. Earlier the deadline was Dec 31 2017 .