Pan-Aadhaar Linking: How To Check If Your Pan Is Linked To Your Aadhaar?

If a person’s Permanent Account Number (PAN) is not linked with the Aadhaar number by December 31, 2025, it will become inactive. This applies to those who have been allotted a PAN based on their Aadhaar Enrolment ID filed before October 1, 2024. Per the Central Board Of Direct Taxes notification dated April 3, 2025, “every person who has been allotted permanent account number on the basis of Enrolment ID of Aadhaar application form filed prior to the 1st day of October, 2024, shall intimate his Aadhaar number to the Principal Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or Director General of Income-tax (Systems) or the person authorised by the said authorities on or before the 31st day of December, 2025 or such date as may be specified by the Central Board of Direct Taxes in this behalf.”

Linking PAN with Aadhaar is a simple process. One can do it on the income tax e-filing portal, even without logging in. To know the process, read here.

When Can PAN Become Inoperative?

However, failing to do so by the stipulated date would render PAN inoperative. A PAN is an important personal document required for several financial verifications, such as the purchase of mutual funds, property, and tax filing. Therefore, it is advisable to keep it active. The troubles an inoperative PAN can create include no refund of income tax if any, no interest payment on such refund if any from the date it became inoperative, penalty on quoting an inoperative PAN in the income-tax return, and a higher TDS - tax-deducted at source under the provisions of Section 206AA and higher TCS - tax collected at source under Section 206CC.

So, to avoid it all, link PAN and Aadhaar by the due date of December 31, 2025.

However, if one is not sure whether it is already linked or not, one can easily check the link status on the e-filing portal.

How To Check Whether PAN Is Linked With Aadhaar 

To ensure that one’s PAN is linked with the Aadhaar online, first, have both numbers (PAN and Aadhaar) with you.

Step 1: Visit the Income-tax e-filing portal

Step 2: Enter the PAN and Aadhaar Number in the relevant box, and click the ‘View Link Aadhaar Status’ on the bottom right corner

Step 3: If it is linked already, a message will pop up, showing, ‘Your PAN is already linked to the given Aadhaar’ with masked PAN and Aadhaar Number

Step 4: If PAN is not linked, the pop-up will show, ‘PAN not linked with Aadhaar. Please click on ‘Link Aadhaar’ to link your Aadhaar with PAN’. In this case, follow the process to link as mentioned above.

PAN-Aadhaar Linking Exemption

Notably, the PAN-Aadhaar linking is not required for these people:

• Non-resident Indians (NRIs)

• Not a citizen of India

• An individual aged more than 80 years at any time during the previous year

• When a person is residing in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, or Jammu and Kashmir

In case PAN has already become inoperative, one needs to pay a non-refundable fee of Rs 1,000 through the e-pay tax service to proceed with the linking request.