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Link PAN, Aadhaar with offline form

There is a lot of confusion, panic and misinformation prevailing among a large section of the country's 25 crore Permanent Account Number (PAN) card holders and honest tax payers about the process and "deadline" for linking of their PAN cards with their Aadhaar numbers. To make things easier, the Income Tax (I-T) Department on Saturday introduced a one-page form for tax payers to manually apply for linking their Aadhaar with PAN, apart from the available online and SMS facilities.
An individual will have to mention both PAN and Aadhaar numbers, the spelling of the names mentioned on them and give a signed declaration that the Aadhaar number provided in the application form has "not been provided" by them for the purpose of linking it with "any other PAN". They will also have to undertake a declaration stating they have "not been allotted any other PAN than the one mentioned" on the form. "I understand that complete security and confidentiality shall be ensured for my personal identity data provided for the purpose of Aadhaar-based authentication," the taxpayer will state as part of the declaration. "The form is just another procedure, via the paper medium, to link the Aadhaar with the PAN database, as required from July 1. The SMS and online modes are also available," a tax department official said.
The department has also formally notified, under a CBDT notification, the procedure and format for "intimating Aadhaar number to the I-T Department by PAN holder and quoting the same in PAN applications". Taxpayers can link their Aadhaar and PAN using a mobile-based SMS service (formatted message to be sent to 567678 or 56161), by logging on to the website of PAN service providers like NSDL and UTIITSL, by personally visiting a PAN service centre or over the e-filing website of the tax department.
Similarly, the department has specified in detail the procedure for quoting of Aadhaar in new PAN application and for changes or correction in PAN data.
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