Tax department allots 1.96 crore PAN cards in Jan-Mar 2018 quarter

The income tax data revealed that there were about 35.94 crore PAN alloted by end December 2017.

Government extends deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar to March 31

'It has come to notice that some of the taxpayers have not yet completed the linking of PAN with Aadhaar,' FinMin says.

Introducing Aadhaar in tax regime was one of the measures to check black money or money laundering.

The SC said so while validating Section 139AA of I-T Act that makes Aadhaar mandatory for allotment of PAN cards, filing I-T returns.

The counsel argued that the new law was wholly disproportionate and excessive.

The key question to address is, of course, whether Aadhaar overrules the right to privacy.

The opponents said the step was in collision with the norms laid down by its statutory arm UIDAI which states that Aadhaar is voluntary.

The A-G also said that the court itself had recently ordered that Aadhaar should be made mandatory to procure SIM cards.

Personal data is freely accessible, shared and even sold, and those to whom this information belongs have little control over its flow.

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