How To Link Aadhaar Card With PAN Through Income Tax E-Filing Portal

Aadhaar-PAN Linking Last Date Is September 30: The government announced on Juen 25 that the deadline for linking the two identification cards is extended by three months

Linking two of the most important identification documents - the Aadhaar card and PAN card is mandatory for filing income tax returns and is also a compulsatory process according to the central government. Recently, the government extended the last date to link the Permanent Account Number (PAN) with the Aadhaar card by another three months. On June 25, 2021, Minister of State of Finance Anurag Thakur while announcing few income tax exemptions on COVID expenses, said that the new deadline for linking the two documents is set as September 30.  The government extended the last date to provide relief to taxpayers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the third time that the last date has been extended. Earlier, the last date was set as March 31, 2021, which was then extended to June 30, 2021. Now, the deadline is again extended by three months till September 2021. Linking the two documents is an easy process as the Income Tax (I-T) Department enables users to link the two identification numbers through an online tool hosted on its official e-filing portal — incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.