As the deadline to link Aadhar Card and PAN Card ended on Friday, the income tax department in a tweet cleared confusion over difficulty in downloading the challan after payment of fee for Aadhaar linking.
In the tweet, the tax department said the status of challan payment for Aadhaar-PAN linking can be checked in the ‘e-pay tax’ tab of the portal after login.
What did the Income Tax Department say?
According to the income tax department, the cases where the action is still pending despite successful payment, will be considered before making PAN inoperative.
An inoperative PAN has tax and banking implications.
"There is no need of downloading the challan receipt for linking PAN with Aadhaar. Further, as soon as the PAN holder completes the payment successfully, an email with an attached copy of the challan is already being sent to the PAN holder," the tax department tweeted.
About linking PAN and Aadhar
The law to link PAN with Aadhaar came into effect from July 1, 2017.
Till March 31, last year, there was no fine for failing to link both cards.
If an individual fails to link their Aadhaar and PAN by June 30, 2022 and wishes to link it at a later date, then he/she can inform the tax authorities, and after payment of penalty, the two can be linked.
