As many as 11.5 crore PAN cards had been deactivated for not being linked to Aadhar cards throughout the deadline, in accordance to an RTI reply by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The deadline for linking PAN card with Aadhar expired on June 30 this 12 months. Out of the full 70.24 crore PAN card holders within the nation, 57.25 folks linked their PAN cards to Aadhar. According to the RTI reply, greater than 12 crore PAN cards haven’t been linked to Aadhar, out of which 11.5 crore cards have been deactivated.
The RTI was filed by an activist in Madhya Pradesh Chandra Shekhar Gaur. The linking of the Aadhar and PAN cards is completed mechanically for the brand new candidates of PAN whereas making use of whereas it’s obligatory to link each of them for these PAN holders who had been allotted the cardboard on or earlier than July 1, 2017.
The RTI reply careworn that beneath sub-section (2) of Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, it’s obligatory for each one who was allotted a PAN card on July 1, 2017, to intimate his Aadhar quantity.
“This linking of PAN and Aadhaar was required to be done on or before a notified date, failing which PAN becomes inoperative,” the RTI reply mentioned.
CBDT has imposed a penalty of Rs 1,000 to get the PAN card reactivated.
CBDT had on March 30 final 12 months listed out the implications of not linking PAN and Aadhar cards on or earlier than the notified date. It had additionally prolonged the deadlines for linking each to June 2023.
