The Income Tax department issued new order regarding the filing of Tax returns which says that the department will now give tax returns “only” through e-mode and ordered all the tax payers to get their PAN(Permanent Account Number) linked to Aadhar to avail the services from the next fiscal.
In its order, it also gave deadline of 31/03/2019 for linking Pan To Aadhar to “get refunds directly, swiftly and Securely” into your bank accounts as from 1 March 2019, it will only issue e-returns.
Taxpayers can get this done in their nearest Bank and to verify whether the linking is completed or not, they can login to e-linking portal of Income Tax department.
This new order comes after the validation of governments earlier order making Aadhar-Pan linking mandatory for filing Income Tax Returns(ITR), as per the notice available on the Income Tax department’s website.
“Constitutional validity of Aadhaar has been upheld by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in September 2018. Consequently, in terms of section139AA of Income Tax Act., 1961 and order dated 30/06/2018 of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Aadhaar-PAN linking is mandatory now which has to be completed till 31.3.2019 by the PAN holders requiring filing of Income Tax Return,” the notice read.