Exemption from Aaadhaar – PAN Linking

The Income-tax Department had recently made linking of Aadhaar & PAN madatory for assessees. A facility for the same was also introduced in the income tax efiling website www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.

Now the Income-tax Department vide its Notification No S O 1513(E) dtd 11th May 2017 has exempted the following assessees :-

  1. Persons residing in the States of Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Meghalaya;
  2. A person who is a non-resident as per the Income-tax Act, 1961;
  3. persons of the age of eighty years or more at any time during the previous year;
  4. a person who is not a citizen of India.

The relevant notification is attached below :-

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