Here's a direct example of what happened after Aadhar came in to play: https://www.livemint.com/Money/aJ6VPyH94gNVwm8alEs87L/11-lakh-PAN-cards-deactivated-Here

Here's a direct example of what happened after Aadhar came in to play: https://www.livemint.com/Money/aJ6VPyH94gNVwm8alEs87L/11-lakh-PAN-cards-deactivated-Heres-how-to-check-if-your-c.html https://www.livemint.com/Money/aJ6VPyH94gNVwm8alEs87L/11-lak... So there were roughly 1.1m duplicate tax numbers, and were cut off from writing tax savings of roughly $4000+ a year. Like I said, it's not a question of what it is, but how it's used that matters. When people (inside and outside government) treat social security schemes and tax payer money as profiteering schemes, bad things will happen.