The government also extended deadline for date of issue of notice under section 148 of Income-tax Act,1961, passing of consequential order for direction issued by the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) & processing of equalisation levy statements.
The Central government on March 31 extended the last date for linking of Aadhaar number with Permanent Account Number (PAN) from March 31, 2021, to June 30, 2021, in view of the difficulties arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apart from this, the government also extended deadline for date of issue of notice under section 148 of Income-tax Act,1961, passing of consequential order for direction issued by the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) & processing of equalisation levy statements.
Central Government extends the last date for linking of Aadhaar number with PAN from 31st March, 2021 to 30th June, 2021, in view of the difficulties arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.(1/2)@nsitharamanoffc@Anurag_Office@FinMinIndia
— Income Tax India (@IncomeTaxIndia) March 31, 2021
Earlier, the last date to link the documents was March 31, 2021. The government had said that following the deadline ends, all the PAN cards which are not linked to Aadhaar would be useless and declared “inoperative”.
Also, a proposal of imposing a penalty of Rs 10,000 for failing to link the two documents by the deadline as Section 272B of the Income Tax Act was passed.
