Aadhaar may become the only card in future: Arun Jaitley
NEW DELHI: Aadhaar may become the only card in future, replacing all types of other identity cards like voter ID card, PAN card etc, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today. He was replying to a question from the opposition in the Lok Sabha as why there are so many ID cards despite Aadhaar's introduction. On why Aadhaar being made mandatory for IT returns, Jaitley said that many persons have been found with multiple PAN cards and that's why the government felt the need to introduction the system. "Today 98 percent citizens have Aadhaar. They can either give the Aadhaar number or mention that they have applied for Aadhaar but the government won't allow them to evade tax," Jaitley added. The Finance Minister also said that people needed to be brought into the tax system. Jaitley said that the government that's why lowered the tax slab this year. Jaitley, who was speaking during a debate on Finance Bill, also quoted an article of economist Martin Wolf where he praised the demonetisation scheme of the Indian government.
Source: Economic Times 22 March 2017