Supreme Court on Linking of Aadhaar with PAN : Reality Check of Decision. You Must Link your Aadhaar
Linking of Aadhaar, according to the Centre's argument, is a measure to eliminate fraudulent practices such as multiple PANs held by individuals. ————————————————————— Many of the Media Channels showing as it is not Compulsory to Link Your Aadhaar with PAN as per Latest decision of Supreme Court on it. We came to Notice this news report is wrongly interpreted by the Readers. Readers are thinking that Linking of Aadhaar is not compulsory now. We at The Logical Funda Community have tried to get the Right Picture of the Decision to our Readers. "The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the newly-inserted provision in the Income Tax Act mandating linking of Aadhaar number with Permanent Account Number (PAN), but it partially stayed its operation" Upholding a new provision in the Income Tax Act that mandates the linking of Aadhaar, the Supreme Court has said that those who already possess the unique ID will have to link it with PAN, but it cannot be insisted upon in case of people not possessing Aadhaar card. Recently IT Department had made it compulsory to Link Aadhaar with Your PAN, failure to that your PAN will be declared invalid. Supreme Court in its decision said there was no conflict between the impugned provision of the Income Tax Act and the Aadhaar Act. PAN card without Aadhaar number would not be treated invalid till the Constitution bench decides the larger issue of Right to Privacy. Also, previous transactions won't be affected or nullified with partial stay on the new law till privacy issue linked to Aadhaar is decided. Further, the bench also clarified that there would be no retrospective implementation of the provision to invalidate the PAN for non-compliance of unique identification number under the Aadhaar scheme. However, the bench asked the government to take appropriate steps to ensure there was no leakage of data from the Aadhaar scheme as apprehensions have been expressed that there was a possibility of the data being compromised. Linking of Aadhaar, according to the Centre's argument, is a measure to eliminate fraudulent practices such as multiple PANs held by individuals. The Logical Funda Community appeal to all our readers not to believe on the rumours/ false reports. SC decision is very clear that those who posses Aadhaar Card must link it with PAN. Those who not holding Aadhaar Card are exempted from this Provision. What is the Benefit of Aadhaar Linking with PAN 1. Once Aadhaar-PAN is linked, one can e-verify the IT return using Aadhaar if the mobile number is registered with Aadhaar database. 2. Govt. can keep an Eye of Duplicate/Multiple PAN issuance. 3. Govt can have extensive details of the Income Tax Payers using Aadhaar Database. The Logical Funda Community Logical Abhishek