The government of India has made it mandatory to link your PAN card with Aadhaar Number. In case you do not do so by July 1, 2017 your PAN card would be invalid, which means you might not be able to file your tax returns. We had already written about How to link your PAN & Aadhaar if there was NO mismatch between the same. However there was linking issue in case the names did not match on PAN & Aadhar. Recently Income Tax Website has changed the linking form – so that it works for name mismatch cases too.
Step 1: Login to Income Tax efiling Website
Step 2: Select Profile Settings > Link Aadhaar
You get the below screen where you can fill in your Aadhaar Number and Name and submit “Link Aadhaar”
This would enable everyone with name mismatch to link there PAN card to Aadhaar number. However if you have problem with Date of Birth/gender mismatch you need to get it corrected in aadhaar/PAN.
Acknowledgement:
Once this is done you would get an acknowledgement of the same as in the screen below.
Instructions:
Please ensure the Date of Birth; Gender & Aadhaar Number is as per Aadhaar details
If Name as per Aadhaar is not exactly matched then user has to additionally provide Aadhaar OTP or EVC to proceed with partial name match.
Once Aadhaar-PAN linking is completed, you can e-Verify your return using Aadhaar, if your mobile is registered with Aadhaar.
Also Read: Not able to Link PAN to Aadhaar – use offline method
Method 2: without login in income tax website
You can also link your PAN & Aadhaar without login in income tax website. Click here to go to the relevant page.
You’ll get the form below. Fill and submit it.
Method 3: Using SMS
Try linking PAN & Aadhaar using SMS as stated below
Some Issues:
At times some people are getting message “Technical Error at UIDAI. Please try again”. This may be due to overload on UADAI server. You can try after some time and you should be able to link your PAN to Aadhaar.
my name in aadhaar was as ACHAMMA and in pan card it was ACHAMMA KURIAN . I have coorected my aadhaar card yesterday .but its not linking, its says there is some mismatch. why is that so.
Try after some days. Generally it takes time to update in database from where it looks up for PAN details. This is what I have come to know from other readers!
I have a name mismatch with Pan.. but unable to use the OTP option as mentioned. Kindly advise if the OTP (not sure where it is shown) option is for partial name mismatch. For your reference: My PAN Name: P GOWRI, Aadhar Name: Gouri Picharaman (when translated from regional to English there is a typo) and I’m unable to link.
If nothing works you might have to vist PAN service centers and DO offline linking
after filling this ofline form where to submit give address or authority pl
You can submit offline form at PAN Service centers. Get the address from NSDL and UTIITSL websites.
My maiden name is there in the PAN Card. And in Aadhaar it just first name followed by W/o Husband name. All my other document like Passport, voters ID everything is like Name + Husband name.Please let me know where exactly i have to make changes.
You can link PAN card to Aadhaar without making changes if you are ready to do it offline – use the new offline form for linking PAN to Aadhaar
I have mistakenly mentioned my mother’s name in the form while linking my brother’s PAN and Aadhaar Card. Now I am not able to do the changes as it states “Your PAN is already linked to the given Aadhaar number”. How to rectify it?
I am not sure how it got linked in the first place! But anyway you might want to talk to customer care @ http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/ or visit offline centers.
Useful 🙂 thank you
It is also hearsay that you need to link Adhar with your land title deeds. A common issue here is that the address in title deeds executed before marriage of women may differ from that in adhar card obtained after their marriage. There are other circumstances also for such a status. How is this going to affect. Then has this linking been made mandatory yet?
These are just speculations as of now. In case the government goes ahead with the linkage of aadhaar it will for sure look on how to solve for name changes etc.
I tried and data of pan nd adhar card is same no difference but till error msg show what to do now
Please guide me
I am unable to link PAN with AADHAAR as the error message says “Enter Valid 12 digit AADHAAR No.”
I have also checked up in UIDAI portal, my Aadhaar no. exists. But still, why am I getting such a msg ?
If you have got aadhaar recently, this might be the problem. Try after some days
Before getting married I got pan card my parent initial used after getting married my aadhar card initial used my husband now how can I link aadhaar and pan
Try doing it online or through SMS. If both fails try the offline method to link PAN to aadhaar.
I tired without login. The issue I have is in my Aadhar card my initial is not updated but in PAN my name is followed by initial. I tried linking aadhar but due to data mis match it got rejected. Kindly let me know if their is any other procedure for linking.
Don’t worry – you can simply fill aadhaar while filing your returns. It will get linked from there. There is NO official confirmation for the same but strictly my opinion.
every thing good but when i tried to link it it shows name mismatch error nothing like otp or EVC option direactly said to update pan card or Adhar card option why i am not giving right otp option for your information i have only name mistake nothing else Like sunil instead of suneel
If all online method and SMS fails you have no option but to use the new offline form
Hi ,
I have the sur name and middle name different in both PAN and adhar card .
PAN Card – SHILPA PARASMAL MEHTA
Adhar CARD – SHILPA KOTHARI
I am still getting error of NAME MISMATCH ?
If all online method and SMS fails you have no option but to use the new offline form for linking PAN to Aadhaar
What the hell is going on with the site
Dear Sir,
My mothers DOB in the pan and aadhar are different. Can you please suggest how do i get the two linked in this situation
If all online method and SMS fails you have no option but to use the new offline form for linking PAN to Aadhaar
Name, gender and DOB on both Aadhaar and Pan card are perfectly matching however, I’m unable to link it on the Incometax site and kept getting the ‘linking failed’ message. I tried on firefox and chrome browsers and both gave the same error message. Kindly help!
If all online method and SMS fails you have no option but to use the new offline form for linking PAN to Aadhaar