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Invalid Address Issue During Income Tax Return Submission

Several times we get issues of address being incomplete for mandatory details such as locality, pin-code, state, country code etc. This seem to happen even after repeatedly correcting them. They seem to default back to null values even after successfully saving them. You would go back all the way into submitting all the submission screens, and at the end you again get the same error. This is quite frustrating. You can address this issue as below:  Update the address in the Profile itself although logically this shouldn’t be necessary. Tax Payer should be able different permanent address for profile and another perhaps temporary one for the return for the assessment year.  Use Chrome as your browser! Maybe Internet Explorer also will work too. Unfortunately I see the issue not resolving when I used Opera, DuckDuckGo, Safari etc., in the past. 

Bank Account Failing While Submitting Return

Sometimes you may come across a strange error when an income tax return cannot be submitted. It fails with an error regarding the bank account asking you to reach the developer with the error details.  Here is the background, and what you can do about it. At least One Bank Account for Refund ,You will need to specify, and select at least one bank account that will be used by the income tax department to send refunds to you when applicable. In the absence of this a return cannot be filed. Simple as that. And this is so, even when you are not expecting a refund! Bank Validation  After the bank details have been added, they need to be validated by the income tax department. If you have just added the new bank details, the validation will be auto triggered. But let us say, you have had some issues, such as the KYC not being completed with the bank, Aadhaar and PAN not being linked etc. In such cases, áfter’ you have made the needed corrections/updates with bank or tax portal for t...