[devnonymous]

> I am also in the "make it compulsory for income tax" group.

I don't get this ! What exactly is this linkage solving ? Additionally everyone who advocates this disregards the fact that there are Non-resident Indians who are required to pay taxes but they are not entitled to an Aadhaar card and resident non-Indians who also need to pay taxes who are not required to get an Aadhaar card.

Additionally, how exactly is the deduplication of the PAN database happening ? (ie: who is doing this and what information do they have access to ? eg: is it a private entity who would also benefit from knowing tax income slabs for analytics ?? ...do you really want your service providers insurance/health care/ISP/grocery provider to know the income tax slab you fit in ?)

[eklavya]

I think the Income Tax department can do the dedup themselves right? Seems easy, no different pan cards can have the same aadhar number?

Income tax records are protected by very strict laws already.

[devnonymous]

...they could but are they doing it ? Do you know whom to ask ? Do you know whether you even have the right to ask these questions and get an answer ? ...and if you get the answer that they are not doing it and instead a private entity will handle it, will you have a choice to not link your PAN card to Aadhaar ?

[eklavya]

If I can't believe that they are following the law, my data is already public. I remember there was a debate sometime back where income tax info was needed to decide whether you qualify for certain subsidies or not and there was no way to get the income tax data even for the govt (different dept).

Income tax aadhar linkage should not be optional in the same way paying taxes isn't (in my opinion). I mean only 10-2000000 above with more than 1000000 rs income (declared). That's just disgusting.