Today (31 March) is the last for linking Aadhaar with PAN card. The Income-Tax Department has already asked the taxpayers to link their Aadhaar with their PAN (Permanent Account Number) by 31 March this year to get seamless services online.
If you have still not linked the two, here are the simple means in which you can do so within deadline. The I-T Department has shown three methods through which one can link PAN with Aadhaar: SMS, e-filing portal and while e-filing Income Tax Return. Link PAN-Aadhaar via SMS A PAN can be linked with an Aadhaar number using SMS. For this, the tax payer has to send an SMS to 567678 or 56161 in the following format, says the Income Tax Department website: UIDPAN<12-digit Aadhaar><10-digit PAN> For example, UIDPAN 111122223333 AAAPA9999Q During filing Income Tax Return A person can submit a request to link Aadhaar number with PAN while filing the income tax return (ITR) online (e-filing). The link of e-filing, according to the Income Tax Department, is available on the websites of NSDL (tin-nsdl.com) and UTIITSL (utiitsl.com), as well as the income tax e-filing portal.