Ultimate Reminder: Hyperlink Your PAN with Aadhaar Earlier than December 31

With the deadline for linking the Everlasting Account Quantity (PAN) with Aadhaar quick approaching, hundreds of thousands of Indian taxpayers are speeding to finish the method earlier than December 31, 2025. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued a mandate that goals to determine a single, verified identification system for banking, monetary transactions and revenue tax submitting functions.

In line with the CBDT directive, those that had been assigned a PAN as of July 1, 2017, and have a sound Aadhaar, ought to hyperlink the 2 paperwork. Those that obtained their PAN earlier than October 1, 2025, utilizing an Aadhaar-enrolment ID (fairly than their ultimate Aadhaar quantity) are particularly topic to the brand new deadline of December 31, 2025.

Those that fail to finish the necessary course of by the December 31 deadline will discover their PAN inoperative, resulting in disruption in a number of monetary transactions. If a PAN shouldn’t be linked by the due date, it is going to turn out to be ‘inoperative’ from January 1, 2026. Inoperative PAN card holders might face a number of points in submitting Revenue Tax returns, getting refunds and disruptions in monetary transactions.

Furthermore, KYC-based actions that embody funding, redemption, account opening and mortgage processing could also be placed on maintain by banks, mutual funds and different monetary intermediaries.

Learn how to hyperlink PAN and Aadhaar: A step-by-step information

The federal government has made the linking course of easy and accessible on-line:

Go to the official Revenue Tax e-Submitting portal (www.incometax.gov.in). On the homepage, click on on “Hyperlink Aadhaar” underneath the “Fast Hyperlinks” part.

Enter your 10-digit PAN, 12-digit Aadhaar quantity, and your title precisely because it seems on Aadhaar.

Examine the small print after which click on the button to submit. An OTP might be despatched to the cellular quantity linked together with your Aadhaar. Enter the OTP to authenticate.

Upon profitable submission, a affirmation message seems — linkage sometimes displays on the portal inside 3–5 working days.

Reactivating an inoperative PAN requires paying a charge of ₹1,000 through the e-Pay Tax facility earlier than submitting the linkage request. The PAN could also be reactivated after completion of the due course of. Nevertheless, it will possibly take as much as 30 days.

The revenue tax authorities have suggested residents to test the standing of their PAN-Aadhaar hyperlink instantly and full the method earlier than the due date of December 31, 2025.