The Income Tax Department on June 30, 2023, issued a clarification regarding the seeding of Aadhaar with PAN Card.
The following has been stated namely: -
• The status of challan payment may be checked in the ’e-pay tax’ tab of the portal after login.
• If payment is successful, then the PAN holder can proceed to link PAN with Aadhaar.
• The downloading of the challan receipt is not needed for linking PAN with Aadhaar.
• As soon as the PAN holder completes the payment successfully, an email with an attached copy of the challan is sent to the PAN holder.
• In cases where fee payment and consent for linking have been received, but linking has not been done till June 30, 2023, such cases will be duly considered by the Department.
There is no notification issued by the department as of yet.
