 "Centre will give 3-6 months for Aadhaar-PAN linking if SC agrees: Official")
The government will give three-six months to link the biometric identifier Aadhaar with PAN in case the apex court rules in its favour, after which it may cancel all PANs that have not been linked, a senior official has said.
The cancellation will weed out all duplicate PANs and make benami transactions void, the official said.
The current deadline for linking the 10-digit alphanumeric PAN (Permanent Account Number), issued by the Income Tax Department, with Aadhaar is December 31.
The government has indicated to the Supreme Court that it is willing to extend this deadline to March 31, 2018.
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