New Delhi: Do you know how important a document a PAN card is in the modern era? Without this paper, important financial work gets stuck in the middle, due to which people have to face trouble. If you go to open a bank account for a child, then PAN card is given priority first. The Income Tax Department has made it mandatory to link PAN card with Aadhaar card.
The last date for this work has been fixed as 31 December 2024. If you do not get this work done by the due date, then problems may arise, which will be considered as a big shock. There is even talk that PAN card will be de-activated.
Why is it necessary to link PAN card?
In the online era, cases of fraud and cheating are increasing day by day. Due to this, some companies were also accused of using PAN card information in an unauthorized manner to create customer profiles. In view of this, the government ordered to limit access to personal information through PAN.
This can be done to prevent misuse of personal information. Therefore, the Income Tax Department has made it very important for taxpayers to link PAN Card with Aadhar Card. You should find out your status. The status will show whether your PAN Card is linked or not. If this work is not done, there will be a lot of problems in transactions.
How to get information about PAN-Aadhaar link status?
For this, first of all you have to go to the Income Tax e-filing portal (www.incometax.gov.in) and click.
After this, click on the ‘Quick Links’ option on the homepage.
Then click on Link Aadhar Status, after which give PAN and Aadhar card number.
How much fee will have to be paid?
Do you know that now a fee has to be paid for linking Pan Card with Aadhar Card. This fee was earlier Rs 500, but now it has been increased to double i.e. Rs 1000. The government had made it absolutely free to link PAN card with Aadhar till June 30, 2023. Now this is not the case. According to the news of Dainik Jagran, a fee will have to be paid for linking PAN Card with Aadhaar.