How to quickly link your Aadhaar and PAN from your smartphone

Quickly link your PAN with your Aadhaar for just Rs 1,000, directly from your smartphone.

Aadhaar and PAN can be linked even from a smartphone (Image credit: Vivek Umashankar / Indian Express)

Update: According to the latest notification from Govt of India, Ministry of Finance, and the Department of revenue, the last date to link PAN with Aadhaar has been extended to June 30, 2023, where, users can pay Rs 1,000 and link PAN with Aadhaar.

In order to provide some more time to the taxpayers, the date for linking PAN & Aadhaar has been extended to 30th June, 2023, whereby persons can intimate their Aadhaar to the prescribed authority for PAN-Aadhaar linking without facing repercussions.
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Aadhaar and PAN card linking deadline is now June 30, 2023. If you haven’t linked yours yet, you can still do it directly from your phone by just paying Rs 1,000. The PAN will become invalid if the linkage is not done.

Here is how to quickly link your Aadhaar with your PAN on your smartphone. Do note that the same can also be done on any device such as a laptop, tablet, or computer with an internet connection.

Your PAN can be linked to the Aadhaar number via the income tax e-filing portal.

Attention Taxpayers!
PAN-Aadhaar linking deadline is approaching!
Please do link PAN & Aadhaar before 31.03.2023 to avoid consequences.
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Open incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in website on your smartphone and log in with your credentials. If not, create a new account using your PAN number. Do note that the user ID for the login will be your PAN number. Similarly, Aadhaar and PAN can also be linked via utiitsl.com or egov-nsdl.co.in government websites.

Once you are inside the website, you should see a popup that says “link your PAN with Aadhaar” if not, click on the profile settings option and select link Aadhaar.

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According to the government, 20 per cent of PAN users are yet to link it with Aadhaar.

In the next menu, verify all the details, and click on the link Aadhaar to link. Some people are reporting server errors while linking, this is probably due to the surge in the number of users accessing the portal to link Aadhaar and PAN.