A general issue regarding the mismatch in names occurring in the PAN card and Aadhaar card has been surging day by day as in the common process to link the Aadhaar card to the tax return file, the issue of name mismatch recurs in every taxpayer application.
As the government has mandated the linking of Aadhaar cards while filing income tax returns, the issue has been stagnant if you are unable to link PAN with Aadhaar for a while and to revoke the issue, the government has summed up solutions regarding the name mismatch problem and has ordered that if any name mismatch occurrence persists, the taxpayer can have the option to attach a scanned copy of his her PAN card with the file.
Latest Update
- Individual PAN registration on the official e-filing portal is now mandatory, with Aadhaar-based OTP verification. View more
- The income tax department issued a reminder notification regarding linking PAN with Aadhaar by May 31, 2024, to taxpayers who have not yet done so. Consequences of not linking PAN with Aadhaar within 31st May 2024 lead to the deduction of TCS/TDS at a higher rate under Sections 206AA and 206CC of the Income Tax Act due to having an inoperative PAN for the transaction done before 31 March 2024.
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These are the following Important Steps to Link Aadhaar with PAN Card
The Income Tax Department has disclosed how to Link PAN with Aadhaar in just simple steps. In fact, it doesn’t require login or registration at the e-filing website. Anyone can avail of this facility and link their Aadhaar with their PAN. Just follow the simple steps given below and link your Aadhaar with your PAN:-
Step 1: Visit www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in and click on the left-hand side of the website under the Services menu> Link Aadhaar.
Step 2: Mentioned the required details, PAN number, Aadhaar number, and name, must ensure that you have to ENTER NAME EXACTLY AS GIVEN IN AADHAAR CARD (avoid spelling mistakes) and submit.
UIDAI is the government website for Aadhaar. After the verification from UIDAI, the linking will automatically be confirmed.
Step 3: If in a case there is any slight difference between the Aadhaar name provided by the taxpayer as compared to the actual name in Aadhaar. A One-Time Password (Aadhaar OTP) will be sent to the registered mobile number with Aadhaar. Taxpayers or candidates must be sure that the date of birth and gender in PAN and Aadhaar are exactly the same.
If in a case, the Aadhaar name must ensure that you have ENTER NAME EXACTLY AS GIVEN IN AADHAAR CARD (avoid spelling mistakes) and submit.
Apart from this, the government authority has also proposed to include a column on the official website of the tax department in which a link will be provided to link the Aadhaar card by which an OTP will be generated in any name mismatch scenario occurs.
The OTP will come through the text message on the registered mobile number of the taxpayer and after entering the received OTP on the portal, the linking will be established between the Aadhaar card and the PAN card. The only condition which will fulfil this service is that the birth date must be the same on both cards in order to finalise the linking process.
Step 4: After filling out all the details and the Aadhaar number, the system will show the message if in case your Aadhaar is linked with the PAN.
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The name mismatch issue was persistent after the union minister Arun Jaitley proposed in the financial bills of GST to mandate the linking of Aadhaar cards in every filing of tax returns. Some of the common issues regarding the linking of the PAN card to the Aadhar card are, special character recognition, in which the Aadhaar card is unable to recognize any special while on the same side PAN card is able to recognize special characters.
The second issue in the row comes as the initial recognition in which the Aadhaar card is unable to recognize the initials whereas the PAN card takes the initials. Finally, the point of the middle name is also prevalent in the mismatch issue, as the Indian community changes the surname after marriage especially females, which in turn gives rise to the name mismatch.
One must remember, that the linking of both an Aadhaar card and a PAN card is only eligible in the case of name mismatch, which is when the birth date of the individual is mentioned the same on both government IDs. This has been mandated by the government as it will help in identifying the taxpayer’s identity on a firm basis.
Who all are Exempted from Linking Aadhaar Card and PAN
According to the central government and supreme court orders, there is a necessity for the linking of Aadhaar and PAN as also notified in the income tax department rules and regulations. Section 139AA was held by the court while the central board of Excise and Customs also released a notification mentioning all the exempted entities for the linking.
The following list specifies the exempted individuals on which section 139AA is not applicable:
- Those categorised as Non-resident Indians as per the Income Tax Laws
- Not a citizen of India
- Is of age 80 years or more at any time during the tax year
- Residents of the states of Assam, Meghalaya and Jammu and Kashmir
Most Important Reasons to Link Your PAN Card with Aadhaar
The Government of India has made it mandatory to link your Aadhaar with your other identities. Taxpayers who do not link their PAN card with their Aadhaar will be liable for all penalties under the Act for failing to link their PAN, and their PAN will no longer be valid after that.
But the thought may have struck your mind that you have been using your PAN card and suddenly need to link it with your Aadhaar. Well, here are the top 10 reasons why you should link your PAN with your Aadhaar.
Abide by the Law
The Government of India has made it mandatory to link your PAN card with an Aadhaar card under Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Avoid Tax Penalties
If you do not link your Permanent Account Number (PAN) card with an Aadhaar card, you may be imposed with several charges and penalties like deactivation of your PAN card and a penalty of up to Rs. 1,000.
Makes the Verification Process Easy
Aadhaar is every Indian citizen’s unique identity, and it is accepted at all government portals. Tax authorities can easily verify the authenticity of the taxpayer if his or her PAN is linked with Aadhaar.
Helps Authorities Stop Tax Evasion
Having taxpayers’ PAN cards linked with their Aadhaar cards helps authorities prevent tax evasion by evaders. It makes certain that all taxpayers have their unique identification number, and it will be easy for them to track who is not paying the tax.
Speed up Your KYC Process
KYC is mandatory to avail of various financial services, like online transactions, UPI transactions, or personal loans. Linking your PAN with your Aadhaar makes the process of KYC updation easy and fast.
Make Tax Filing Easy
Linking your PAN card with an Aadhar card can ease the process of tax filing for you. Because it will pre-file your details in the Income Tax Return form or fetch details automatically.
Avail Various Governmental Services Easily
Government schemes and services require an Aadhar card to avail. It may make it necessary for all other services to have your PAN card linked with your Aadhaar card down the line. If you meet this prerequisite by linking your PAN card with your Aadhaar card, you can easily access various government services.
Easy to Make All Financial Transactions
After linking your PAN card with your Aadhaar, you can easily carry out various financial transactions. You are always asked to provide your PAN card when opening a bank account, making investments, and applying for loans.
Helps in Authenticating Identity
You can authenticate your identity easily, and you can also prevent identity theft by linking your PAN card with your Aadhar card.
Avoiding Duplication
It has happened so many times that a PAN with the same details has been mistakenly provided to two individuals. It’s a common problem brought on by many people possessing duplicate PAN cards. The misuse can be prevented by linking your PAN card to your Aadhar card.
I have updated pan card to match with UAN name and got pan card with matching name with UAN. but here twist is I did not see any record in” know your pan site” after providing proper details… please site developers resolve this minor issues to ensure belief in hassle-free digitization of this site to make ppl feel more attached to govt in digital initiatives without raising finger by referring this issues……
Thanks!!! hopping early resolve of this issues by every taxpayers..
Hi
My name in PAN CARD been mentioned as SUNDARA MARIKUMAR K but in an income tax filing site it has been updated as SUNDARA MARIKUMAR so that when I try to update my PAN details in UAN it getting error “name against UAN does not match with the name in income tax department”.
My name in UAN and AADHAR been mentioned as SUNDARA MARIKUMAR K, Kindly help
Kindly somebody helps me,
I was updating my pan details in my EPFO MEMBER portal but I got an error “Pan verification failed. (Name against UAN does not match with the NAME in Income Tax Department) ..
So I went to e-login income tax portal to know my PAN NAME there I was shocked to see that First Name is displayed with my Father name and my name is displayed under Surname. but it is not printed the same on my PAN CARD, here it is printed correctly my name and my father name.
plz plz…. help me with the solution what I can do next
You need to contact income tax helpdesk regarding updation of a name on the portal.
My name is Md Muzaffar Iqbal as per all the documents like educational qualification, driving licence, voter ID, Aadhar card, Bank accounts etc. I tried to apply for pan card but it doesn’t accept MD or says initials not allowed. kindly suggest me what to do now.
Hello Team,
Even after changing the names correctly in both PAN & UAN database, Still getting the same error (PAN Verification Failed – Name mismatch in UAN & IT Dept) while saving the KYC details in EPFO site
Kindly do the needful
In this case, you have to speak with helpdesk of IT dept.
Hi Sowmya
You need to visit to the nearest PAN Centre and get it corrected…Need to take Aadhar Card and a Fee of 101/- and 2 photographs…it will take around 10 days and they will be sending you the new card with the changes.
Hi Sowmya,
Did you get any solution? If yes kindly post it here.
Thanks, & Regards,
Naveen
Hi Sir,
I need your help in understanding the Name format that is displayed on AADHAAR, PAN and UAN?
Is it the Surname/last name and then First name (or) First name and then Surname/last name is displayed? What is the format that govt(AADHAAR, PAN, UAN) follow to display the names on cards and in stores databases?
My name is displayed at ATHELLY RAJESH in all the 3 cards.
When I logged into efillings portal, there I can see my First name as Rajesh and Surname as Athelly, which is correct but on the card it displayed as Athelly Rajesh.
When I am trying to Link my PAN with UAN in EPF portal, the error ”
Pan verification failed. (Name against UAN does not match with the NAME in Income Tax Department)”
Kindly help.
Thank you.
Same problem I have. Did you got any solution
We are unable to proceed with your online PAN application due to following reason: Mismatch in any one or more of the following fields as per PAN application with the details available in UIDAI database. Name/ Gender/ Date of Birth/ Name as per Aadhaar. Kindly visit designated TIN-FC /PAN Centre and submit your PAN application using Biometric (fingerprint) facility. Your Online PAN application fee will be refunded within seven working days. The List of designated TIN-FC /PAN Centre is available at URL https://www.tin-nsdl.com/tin-pan-center.html
Apply date 12/05/2018
Token number: 0022825748
Same for me too. Don’t know what is the error? Can any one help?
Sir, My Aadhar and IT /PAN is linked and My Aadhar and UAN is linked…But my UAN and PAN are not getting linked…Any suggestions…Maybe because in the IT site it takes the surname first and displays…Any solution to this
I have linked my aadhaar card with pan card on e-filing. When I am trying to link my aadhaar card on epfo, I am getting an error that there is a mismatch of the name, date of birth or gender. If my aadhaar & pan are already linked on e-filing and there is no mismatch in the name on both the cards, how is it possible that I am unable to link my aadhaar on epfo.
How to find out what is the actual mismatch
My Aadhaar and PAN details are same but could not link, tried many times but receive mail as the mismatch. Where to write?
Contact to ITD helpdesk.
HI,
My parents have taken LIC under my name, but they have paid the premium as an investment, I have linked those lics with my aadhaar & my PAN, hope this is fine?
This is fine. Aadhar and pan can be yours as LIC is in your name too.
My wife name was Nitika Tripathi, after marriage she becomes Nitika Mishra. Do I need to match the surname to like PAN with Aadhar?
Yes you have to.
Hi,
When it is mandatory to match Aadhar name and Pancard name, Is it not wise enough to have the same nomenclature format for both databases?. My name in Aadhar is Babu.K where initials are allowed for Last name. In Pan card, it is Name as Babu , Father’s name as Karthikeyan . In New Income tax portal, it is mentioned as Karthikeyan Babu . Why is it so confusing ? Can’t we have the same format for all these 3 databases so that the user doesn’t have to break their heads like what is happening at present? Request to look in to this and do the needful as the portal is in the development stage only.
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Hi,
I have my initial and name printed on the PAN card (eg:- A JOHN SMITH) and in my Adhaar it is printed as JOHN SMITH A.
In UAN it is mentioned as my PAN is not verified, and I tried to make investments in Mutual funds, and it was rejected as name mismatch in PAN &
Adhaar.
Only one mutual fund accepted my purchase, but I have received the statement as Albert John Smith, Albert is my father’s name, but I have no clue how it came there?
How to correct them? And do I have to have my initial on PAN & Adhaar?
Could you please how to sort this?
You have to update the document containing the wrong details and then you have to link your PAN with the Aadhar.
My name is Md Muzaffar Iqbal as per all the documents like educational qualification, driving licence, voter ID, Aadhar card, Bank accounts etc. I tried to apply for pan card but it doesn’t accept MD or says initials not allowed. kindly suggest me what to do now.
My Adhar card and PAN card details are same and correct, still, when I try to link message received, it fails due to mismatch information.
I checked so many times all the details i.e. my name, father’s name, surname, even the sequence of names, DOB, Gender all same and correct still it’s unable to link.. how to resolve.
Contact to department.
Check your name in the database of Income tax. As the name on the PAN card was displayed name which may differ from database name. Example: A K Ramu on PAN Card & Aadhar but Anil Karthik Ramu in the database of Income tax department. The same situation has happened to me. I called Income tax helpline so many times for this. At last, I find it. Helpline customer care person was not responding properly.
In case of technical errors, only helpdesk can resolve such issues.
Hi Krishna, Even I have the same issue. How did you proceed further?
Check whether there is any mismatch in your details in PAN card and Aadhaar card or else contact the department in this regard.
In my Aadhaar example A Raja, but in PAN it is Raja A. Why all the character are their why it is saying mismatch govt should take steps to solve.
Hello sir, As I am linking PAN with Aadhar, In e-filing website In place of Name as per Aadhar, I have written my father name and it is linked successfully. now How to change my father name bcoz in pan card my father name is there, in Aadhaar database my father name is there. How to change my name?
Please clarify your query.
My both PAN and AADHAR were successfully linked but while the link UAN with pan, it states that my PAN is not verified (error says– name not matching IT records). Please help me!! what should be done here? How come name is not matching though both are linked successfully?
Check that is there any mismatch in the name mention on PAN and name as per UAN.
Hi,
My brother spelling in Aadhaar card and pan card is different. how can I change this. while applying provident fund it showing the mismatch. How can I resolve this? Please advice on this.
First, you have to correct the spelling in the document, which has incorrect details and then you have to link your Aadhaar with pan card.
Correct the spelling in which proof it is incorrect then Aadhaar and pan name should be same also in UAN portal update the same name as per aadhaar and pan then only it resolved in UAN portal for PF.
Hi,
My Aadhar card DOB was wrong, then I corrected with enrollment centre and it got updated(On Aug 2017). But still, I am unable to link my PAN with Aadhar, getting the same error message.
Can you please help me out here.
Thank you.
I am also having PF withdrawal problem due to name mismatch between Aadhar and PAN database. Government is mandated the Aadhar reality not done any measures to do it. I have updated PAN with Aadhar no and a name and it was asked me check name as per the Aadhar, I did it same. But it’s taken wrong format name. First up all PAN database should not allow if the name is wrong from Aadhar, Even Customer has given right names still it took the wrong name. Without having these basic measures govt shouldn’t mandate the Aadhar. Because of this helpless govt and tax officials, the public is suffering a lot. Unless you are not having any right system better don’t put rules. First, improve your basic system in such a way to take the rule and then put rule. Let us see when our tax guys will wake up and see these basic problems.
My father name is misprinted with ‘E’ Instead of ‘i’ in Aadhaar card but my PAN card details are correct. How can I change my father name?
You have to rectify your father’s name in Aadhaar card.