Thursday: The Tax Department ordered all bank clients to link their NRI banks accounts to Aadhaar card by April 30 to avoid blocking. The deadline to link Aadhaar card with PAN card is July 1.
It said, the tax department has asked everyone to link their bank, insurance, and stock accounts opened between July 2014 and August 2015 under the Foreign Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), to their Aadhaar card numbers and self-verify their Know Your Customer (KYC) details.
Currently, Unique Identification Authority of India has blacklisted 1000 holders & registered FIRs against 20 individuals in the last 3 months.
According to UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey, "We have received certain complaints...we have a zero tolerance policy on overcharging. We have identified about 1,000 such operators since December 2016...in the last three months, these operators have been removed from our system and we are also imposing a penalty of Rs 10,000 each on them"
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