["Millions of people across the country could be facing the problem as the government insists on linking the two accounts+ by July 31, a prerequisite to filing tax returns."
So, Jaitley should amend the Finance Bill once again!? The budget session is likely to continue till 13th of this month. He still has almost a week to scatch his head and act.] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/trend-tracking/initials-punctuations-on-pan-card-make-linking-with-aadhaar-a-pain/articleshow/58046867.cms Initials, punctuations on PAN card make linking with Aadhaar a pain Rachel Chitra | TNN | Updated: Apr 6, 2017, 03.50 PM IST HIGHLIGHTS Aadhaar doesn’t recognise special characters, while PAN does Surnames that have special characters, like D’Souza, and those having dots face linking issues Trouble for South Indians who keep their native village/town as their first initial and father’s name as second initial. Like K.S.Srinivas expands to Kalakurichi Subra CHENNAI: K Venkatesh never thought the initial in his name would put him in a spot over filing his tax returns. When his PAN card could not be linked to his Aadhaar card, the Chennai-based banker consulted his accountant who discovered the problem: Venkatesh's initial 'K' was expanded as Krishnaswamy, his father's name, in the Aadhaar database. The system wouldn't accept the 'mismatch', leaving Venkatesh at his wits' end. ***Millions of people across the country could be facing the problem as the government insists on linking the two accounts+ by July 31, a prerequisite to filing tax returns*** [emphasis added]. And with manual intervention not possible to rectify even minor differences, chartered accountants are flooded with SOS messages. Aadhaar to be mandatory for driving licence For college lecturer Eugiene D'Silva, the chartered accountant was of no help. This is because the Aadhaar database does not recognise special characters such as an apostrophe while the PAN card does. In the same boat is K S Srinivas, whose PAN card details have full stops between his initials while the Aadhaar card doesn't. "It would be impossible for us to change our names on the PAN card as it would mean having to change several other documents, will have to inform my banks, submit fresh KYC documents for three bank accounts, one demat account, and inform the insurance companies. It's a nightmare," says Srinivas. Chartered accountants and lawyers feel that the government should enable manual intervention for linkage, particularly in the case of such minor discrepancies. "The government should form a special cell," says Pankaj Dharamshi, a CA in Bengaluru. "Many of my clients have been having PAN cards for 15-25 years. Now getting a new PAN card and updating all other docu ments would be impossible.It's better to correct the details in the Aadhaar database." Now, Aadhaar for getting on a plane? People can look up their name in the PAN database by doing a mock self-tax assessment or with their registered user ID or through their linked bank account.Once they get the name as entered in the records, they can ensure that the Aadhar data matches. Activists are angry."This is threatening to turn taxpayers into defaulters," says Gopal Krishna of Citizens Forum for Civic Liberties, New Delhi. For those still struggling to figure out how to file tax returns, a former chief justice of the Madras high court has this piece of advice: "File the returns by speed post and attach a copy of the recent Supreme Court order. There is no way they can refuse your IT returns. In fact, the Income Tax Act has provisions that allow you to file income tax even without a PAN card." -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
