Aadhaar-PAN linking failure: Income tax dept shares reasons and ways to resolve it

The deadline to link Aadhaar and Permanent Account Number (PAN) by paying a fine of Rs 1,000 is June 30, 2023. This means customers now have only five days left to completed the linking process. However, several users have been complaining that they are unable to link PAN-Aadhaar due to demographic mismatches such as name, date of birth, gender etc in their PAN and Aadhaar cards.

The Income Tax Department has shared ways to resolve this failure due to demographic mismatch. It said that biometric-based authentication can be availed of at dedicated centres of PAN Service Providers (Protean & UTIITSL).

“Kind Attention PAN holders! While linking PAN with Aadhaar, demographic mismatch may occur due to mismatch in: Name, Date of Birth, Gender. To further facilitate smooth linking of PAN & Aadhaar, in case of any demographic mismatch, biometric-based authentication has been provided and can be availed of at dedicated centers of PAN Service Providers (Protean & UTIITSL),” the Income Tax department tweeted.